v3.9.0

New features:

• Added a 10-band graphic equalizer to settings.
• Files and folders can now be imported using copy and paste from file browser (Nautilus and Dolphin tested).
• Added a function to physically delete track files. This will attempt to send to trash first, otherwise will delete directly.
  • Hold shift and choose delete from context menu.
• Added a function to allow locking of playlists to avoid accidental deletion.

Other tweaks and fixes:

• Artist info panel now has a larger size setting (Toggle in context menu)
• Added setting to change the device buffer duration.
• Database is now saved in background more to avoid loss of changes if not exit cleanly.
• Improved Discord rich presence to allow toggling off and on. (Discord support in AUR release only)
• Changes to audio buffers to hopefully reduce cases of audio stuttering.
• Changes to animations to hopefully eliminate malfunctions.
• Various other tweaks and fixes

v3.8.1

• Fixed an issue where rename file function could cause data loss
• Tweaked showcase visualizer colourisation
• Other bug fixes and tweaks to user interface

v3.8.0

Main Changes:

• Added new UI mode, Mini Mode (shown). How to activate.

• Added new visualizer for "Showcase lyrics" view. You can disable this in the settings.
  

• Added option to disable showing tabs on top panel.

Other tweaks and fixes:

• Files can now be directly dropped onto playlist side panel (to either an existing or new playlist)
• Fixed bug with image menu incorrectly showing functions as disabled.
• Removed "drag tab to end" to duplicate playlist function.
• Fixed showing as playing audio when paused in KDE.

Flatpak Changes

Switch to Flathub

The Flatpak package will now be distributed via Flathub. This should provide for easy updating without need for manual downloads.

If you were using the previous tauon.flatpak version, the upgrade procedure is as follows (Save data will be kept):

Uninstall the old package:
sudo flatpak uninstall com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb

Install flathub version:
flatpak install flathub com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb (sudo intentionally omitted as to install in user mode)

then from now updates can be done by running: flatpak update

Permission Changes

Starting with this version, this package will run in a more restricted sandbox. If you have music stored outside your home music folder, or use Picard to edit tags, you will need to apply permissions manually in order for those to continue working. See Flatpak Permissions.

v3.7.0

Main Changes

• Added gallery option for switching between double / single click to play modes

  The new default is double-click, but you can change this back in settings under View

• Added keyboard shortcut adjust to full windows transparency (Shown) ctrl + +/-
• Playlists are now automatically named when importing tracks (Thanks @Solarunit for the suggestion)
• Lyrics can now be fetched from LyricWiki automatically (Thanks @C0rn3j for the suggestion)
• The side panel metadata box now shows if lyrics are present
• The side panel art display can now be hidden to allow lyrics to take up full height of panel
• Added experimental PLEX steaming support as a client

  Performance not fully tested. See PLEX support for details on how to enable.

• Various other tweaks and bug fixes

Repack 1:

• Fix "hide side bar art" default setting

Repack 1-1:

• [flatpak] Fix network connectivity

v3.6.0

• Added new theme: Lavender Light
• Redesigned app icon.
• Changed last.fm login to use web authorization method.

  Upgrading Note!: If you were previously logged in you will need to log in again using this new method.

• Various small tweaks to user interface.
• Removed web remote interface.

v3.5.3 - Hotfix release

• Fixes an issue with track info not displaying genre field
• Fixes a possible crash when using clean database function

v3.5.2

Small release, mostly tweaks and bug fixes.

Changes:

• Added 7z archive extraction support (needs p7zip (p7zip-full on Ubuntu))
• Added setting to change audio backend to GStreamer (Testing/Experimental. See notes)
• Fixed playtimes becoming lost if filenames changed when using "Open with Picard"
• Fixed and restored option to not delete archives after extraction
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes

v3.5.1

New in this release:

Quick add music folder

The home music folder can now be quickly imported from the main MENU

Folder Rescan

This feature allows you to update tracks in a playlist of a folder.

How it works:

• Each playlist remembers the first folder that was ever imported.
• Clicking Scan Folder from the playlist tab menu will remove and re-import tracks associated with that folder.

Previously there was a feature called Import last folder which this feature replaces. The main improvements now are:

• Tracks of other folders are now ignored.
• Playlist is not updated until finished and process can be canceled.

Other bug fixes and enhancements

• When scrobbling tracks to last.fm, the album-artist field is sent instead of artist if feat. is detected.
• "Folder Purge Embedded" function now works with FLAC files.

  Flatpak note: Requires package flac installed on host.

• There is now an option to show folder duration in the folder title
• There is now an option to disable the fade on pause/resume.

v3.5.0

New in this release:

Enhanced queue interface

This update expands the queuing function. The two major changes are:

• Albums can now be queued in addition to single tracks.
• The left side panel now displays the queue, with ability to drag to re-arrange tracks in the queue.

Other new additional queue functionality:

• The queue can now be paused. (From a right click context menu in the queue view.)
• Auto stop (Right click the stop button) can be used to stop playback once queue has finished.
• The queue now persists over app restarts.
• Albums in the gallery can be added to the queue using middle click.

Playback mode menus

• Shuffle and repeat buttons now have right click context menus for clearer usability.
• Random albums has been added as a playback mode.

As always, feel free to give feedback or suggestions. Or even open an issue / contact me if you have any questions.

I hope you enjoy this new release. Happy holidays!

v3.4.0

Main Changes:

• Improved support for wide album art (shown). The right side panel can now be extended to match the aspect ratio of images. This is useful for viewing wide art in full such as cover fold out scans etc.

  The side bar max size now locks to the aspect ratio, but you can also manually unlock it by holding the Shift key and dragging.

• Improved visual feedback for dragging columns in column view (shown).

Small changes:

• Added "Add to queue" to track context menu.
• Duplicated "Open folder" to gallery context menu.
• Changed playlist advancing to ignore unpinned playlists.
• Various other fixes and tweaks.

As always, there's likely bugs/issues I missed in testing, feel free to report any you encounter.