mediabox (2010.07.23) unstable; urgency=low

  Fixed bug with YouTube playback

  Asynchronous HTTP downloader is now threaded

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0200

mediabox (2010.07.22) unstable; urgency=low

  YouTube videos play again after YouTube changed their site

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:15:00 +0200

mediabox (2010.07.17) unstable; urgency=low

  Enabled playback position bookmarking from 0.96.x again
  
  Added support for custom internet radio stations
  
  Added table of contents and navigation buttons to the tour
  
  Fixed small bug in the LRC lyrics parser
  
  Fixed bug: doesn't get caught in HTTP redirect loops anymore
  
  Fixed bug: don't forget to shutdown player backend at exit anymore
  
  Added D-Bus interface for loading media

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:15:00 +0200

mediabox (2010.06.26) unstable; urgency=low

  Automatically scale down large images before storing as thumbnail.
  This increases scrolling speed in the lists and saves disk space
  
  Various performance improvements

  Put configurator for changing media backends in again
  
  Put configurator for sleep timer in again
  
  Support for displaying embedded cover art in MP3 streams (GStreamer and
  MAFW backends)
  
  Configurator for configuring media player backends
  
  MAFW backend for Maemo5 (yay, finally!)
  
  MPlayer backend now available on Maemo5, too
  
  Download manager and download option in YouTube and UPnP components
  
  Recursive download of directories from UPnP media shares

  Maemo4 and MeeGo netbook windowing stuff
  
  Support for the metalayer crawler service on Maemo4
  
  Support for automatic screen rotation on N900
  
  Small bug fixes
  
 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:30:00 +0200

mediabox (2010.05.08) unstable; urgency=low

  Playback gets paused during a phone call

  Distinguish albums by folder, not by artist (solves issues with various
  artists on one album)
  
  D-Bus interface for controlling MediaBox by a widget, for example

  YouTube browser plugin with support for high quality videos

  Small performance improvements

  Worked around silent mode on N900 (see bugs.maemo.org #6694)
 
  Volume control in GStreamer backend controls device volume on N900
  
  Use FM-Boost script if available
  
  Maemo4 compatibility
  
  MediaBox sets the device volume via mafw while GStreamer volume remains at max
  
  Fixed shuffle mode bug where played files got shuffled in again
  
  Small bug fixes
  
 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sat, 08 May 2010 23:00:00 +0200

mediabox (2010.01.05) unstable; urgency=low

  Fixed bug where a chinook entry in the application manager caused MediaBox
  to assume it runs on Maemo4
  
 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:15:00 +0100

mediabox (2010.01.04) unstable; urgency=low

  Fixed bug where UPnP shares with their own icon did not appear
  
 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:45:00 +0100

mediabox (2010.01.03) unstable; urgency=low

  Optimizations
  
  Added new user's tour explaining the most important features of MediaBox

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0100

mediabox (2010.01.02) unstable; urgency=low

  Added simple PLS support to GstBackend (good enough for playing SHOUTcast
  radio)
  
  Added option for manual file indexing

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0100

mediabox (2010.01.01) unstable; urgency=low

  Theme graphics
  
  Fixed portrait mode image viewer
  
  Fixed portrait mode video player (will only play sound in portrait mode, but
  at least no longer crashes the app)
  
  Volume/zoom keys can be swapped in portrait mode
  
  Compact view has four columns of icons in landscape mode
  
  Support for enhanced LRC lyrics with Karaoke-style highlighting
  
  A semaphore between video player and video thumbnailer helps avoid system
  crashes with both struggling for the DSP

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:00:00 +0100

mediabox (2009.12.27) unstable; urgency=low

  New file index implementation

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:00:00 +0100

mediabox (2009.12.22) unstable; urgency=low

  Bug fixes and cleaning up

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:45:00 +0100

mediabox (2009.11.2) unstable; urgency=low

  Some cleaning up

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:30:00 +0100

mediabox (2009.11.1) unstable; urgency=low

  Experimental output for UPnP MediaRenderer devices

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:15:00 +0100

mediabox (2009.10.25) unstable; urgency=low

  Cleaned up dashboard screen
  
  Playlists can be put on dashbboard
  
  Shuffle and repeat settings can be changed
  
  Thumbnailers use org.freedesktop.thumbnailer service
  
  Slideshow in the image viewer

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0100
 
mediabox (2009.10.19) unstable; urgency=low

  Support for the N900 FM transmitter
  
  Playlist items can be rearranged

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:30:00 +0200

mediabox (2009.10.18) unstable; urgency=low

  Finger gestures in the image viewer and video player
  
  Fullscreen mode in image viewer and video player
  
  Forward and rewind in the video player with swipe finger gestures
  
  Time display in audio and video player
  
  Preferences items can be put on dashboard for quick access

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:30:00 +0200
 
mediabox (2009.10.16) unstable; urgency=low

  Added option for deleting files
  
  Improved speed of navigator

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:30:00 +0200

mediabox (2009.10.15) unstable; urgency=low

  Thumbnailing of albums

  Disabled tracker idtags module because it doesn't retrieve album art
  
  Hardware keys work for controlling volume
  
  Fixed some rendering glitches

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:30:00 +0200

mediabox (2009.10.9) unstable; urgency=low

  Preventing display blanking works again
  
  Fixed portrait mode issue with option menus
  
  The media scanner uses tracker on Fremantle

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:30:00 +0200

mediabox (2009.10.7) unstable; urgency=low

  First unstable beta-release for Fremantle
  
  Major UI redesigns

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:30:00 +0200

mediabox (0.96.5) unstable; urgency=low

  Support for LRC file format for music lyrics

  Slideshow in the image viewer

  Special lists "50 Recently Played" and "Bookmarked Files"

  Sleep and wake up timer (fall asleep and wake up with music or FM radio)
  
  Rewind and fast forward

  Shuffle and repeat modes can be switched by clicking the status bar icons

  Improved UI rendering performance and reduced memory footprint
  
  Improved search feature with skipping to next and previous results
  
  Cleaner user interface
  
  Thumbable scrollbar
  
  Translucent dialog screens
  
  Reduced startup time
  
  mplayer backend doesn't intercept key presses anymore
  
  Plugin compatibility API bumped to 1.1
  
  Support for reference nodes in UPnP content directories

  Bugfixes

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Fri, 29 May 2009 22:30:00 +0200

mediabox (0.96.4.1) unstable; urgency=low

  Fixed end-of-file detection for video streams in the mplayer backend

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:00:00 +0100

mediabox (0.96.4) unstable; urgency=low

  Browse music by genre
  
  Improved UI rendering performance
  
  Advanced list navigation with slide effects and remembering last position
  
  Fixed some media indexing bugs
  
  Downscaling of hi-res videos for smoother playback in the mplayer backend

  Display can be kept lit while playing media
  
  Headset button gestures (1x: PLAY/PAUSE, 2x: NEXT, 3x: PREVIOUS) in the maemo
  input schema
  
  Small workaround to get smoother video playback with mplayer on maemo
  
  Option in the media scanner preferences to reset thumbnail previews and have
  them generated again
  
  Command line options for disabling plugins
  
  Plugin compatibility API bumped to 1.01
  
  Bugfixes

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:00:00 +0100

mediabox (0.96.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

  Back button closes embedded album listing.
  
  "All Tracks" option in artists view for listing all tracks belonging to an
  artist at once
  
  Configuration option for changing the player backend per media format
   
  Revised mediaplayer backend implementation making creation of new backends
  easier
  
  New experimental player backend for GStreamer
  
  Thumbnails and the ID tag cache are stored on the medium where the associated
  files are located
  
  Fixed bug that stopped thumbnailing after an error
  
  Use insanely high number for parameter RequestedCount when browsing UPnP
  server in order to retrieve all items even from UPnP servers misinterpreting
  the RequestedCount part in the ContentDirectory specification (fixes ORB)

  Fixed bug that broke compatibility with Microsoft's UPnP media servers

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:30:00 +0100

mediabox (0.96.2) unstable; urgency=low

  Loading themes from ~/.mediabox/themes doesn't raise an exception anymore
  
  Smoothly animated zooming in the image viewer
  
  Preloading the next image in the background in the image viewer
  
  Configuration option for keeping the display light on
  
  Refuse thumbnailing or loading of images with more than 8 megapixels
  
  Caching of UPnP directory server listings

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:30:00 +0100

mediabox (0.96.1) unstable; urgency=low

  Playlist gets saved after reordering

  Fixed bug where after removing items a list gets stuck and cannot be scrolled
  anymore
  
  Made indexing behavior less optimistic to avoid dead entries
  
  Albums can be closed in the folder view
  
  Adding an image folder to a playlist adds its contents

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0100

mediabox (0.96-2) unstable; urgency=low

  Instant theme switching without the need to restart
  
  New plugin architecture for extending MediaBox
  
  Folder-based browsing
  
  UPnP framework and UPnP AV support
 
  Media bookmarking per file
  
  Shuffle & repeat
  
  Playlist editor and playqueue
  
  Search-as-you-type with finger-friendly on-screen keyboard
  
  File indexing with inotify kernel support and tag-based browsing
  
  Car-mode for easy controlling while driving (play/pause, previous, next)
  
  Bugfixes

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0100

mediabox (0.95) unstable; urgency=low

  Playlist editor with support for drag-sorting

  Huge memory and speed optimizations (folders with several hundred songs load
  without problems)
  
  Music tracks are sorted by track number if available

  Search-as-you-type for title text in albums and playlists (for models with
  a keyboard)
  
  Revised UI based on user suggestions
    
  Bugfixes

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Thu, 08 May 2008 19:00:00 +0200

mediabox (0.94.2) unstable; urgency=low

  Fixed integer bug in gconf-workaround module (which is used where gconf
  Python bindings are unavailable due to a packaging bug in pymaemo)
  
  Fixed bug in theme selector touch sensitivity
  
 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:40:00 +0100

mediabox (0.94.1) unstable; urgency=low

  Added support for non-UTF-8 text encodings in ID3 tags
  
  FM radio stops playing when playing other media
  
  Slightly smoother video playback with mplayer
  
  Fullscreen video no longer grabs input
  
  MediaBox no longer hangs at startup after clearing the media collection
  
  Bugfixes

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sun, 18 Feb 2008 23:10:00 +0100

mediabox (0.94) unstable; urgency=low

  * Improved caching in media scanner to further minimize scanning time
  
  * Theme enhancements
  
  * Media folders can now be filtered by media content types

  * Automatic detection of memory card replacement (scans for new media)

  * Support for the button on the headset (pause/play)
  
  * Loudspeakers can be switched on for FM radio
  
  * Support for reading FLAC tags

  * Alternative media player backend for the osso-media-server adds support for
  more media formats (such as real media and MP4)
  
  * Bugfixes

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:10:00 +0100

mediabox (0.93) unstable; urgency=low

  * Highly improved media scanner for quick scanning and quick startup.

  * Support for various ID3 tag versions (v1, v2.2, v2.3, v2.4).
  
  * Support for album art embedded in ID3 tags.
  
  * High-performant GDK-based rendering engine for a responsive UI and
  more transition effects.
  
  * Buttons for skipping and zooming in the image viewer.
  
  * Enhancements in the default theme.
  
  * Application icon now has the proper size on OS 2008.
  
  * Bugfixes
  
 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Mon, 23 Jan 2008 19:13:00 +0100

mediabox (0.92.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * fixed bug in clock module which caused MediaBox to hang during startup
  during winter season.
  
 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:15:00 +0100

mediabox (0.92) unstable; urgency=low

  * fixed bugs
  
  * improved stability
  
  * support for internet radio stations
  
 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:00:00 +0100

mediabox (0.91.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * fixed critical bug which broke radio station list and caused MediaBox to
  hang during startup
  
 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:00:00 +0100

mediabox (0.91) unstable; urgency=low

  * fixed bugs
  
  * added FM radio
  
  * added buttons for next track and previous track
  
  * improved mplayer communication for better performance
  
  * improved theming capabilities

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:20:00 +0100


mediabox (0.90.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * fixed mplayer sound issue on OS 2008

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Tue, 28 Nov 2007 22:50:00 +0100


mediabox (0.90.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * added fallback module to run when gconf bindings are missing

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:00:00 +0100


mediabox (0.90-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial release

 -- Martin Grimme <martin.grimme@lintegra.de>  Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:00:00 +0100

