Rhythmbox 0.9.3.1! (& got it working)

[VValdo]

Just did an overlay for just-released Rhythmbox 0.9.3.1 on my amd64 machine... works *GREAT*.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.9/

I'm new to ebuilds... I had to manually pull the .tar.gz file and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles - but anyway, got it working. Didn't patch it in any way (.9.2 did have a gentoo-specifici patch), and it seems to work okay. Overall, it feels faster and more stable than .9.2.

Anyway, thought I'd share the good news. This is on an amd64 system.

W

From the announcements... (9.3 and 9.3.1)

* What's changed in 0.9.3.1 ?
=============================

* fix the first-run druid and generic player support [James Livingston:
329723]
* allow watches library to be in non-local places [James Livingston]
* give better error messages for missing gstreamer [James Livingston]
* emit normal warnings instead of critical ones [Jonathan Matthew:
329398]
* fix crasher if gstreamer gives us NULL strings [Jan Schmidt]
* use network byte order for DAAP content codes [Jonathan Matthew]

* What's changed in 0.9.3 ?
===========================

* disable column auto-sizing, improves speed [Jonathan Matthew: 312122]
* resort in a faster way [James Livingston: 315389]
* don't try to burn long playlists [William Jon McCann: 321753]
* other cd-burning fixes and HIG improvements [William Jon McCann:
321754]
* fix "Post" and "Episode" wording [James Livingston: 321653]
* display tag-writing errors to the user [James Livingston]
* make the podcast dialog look like the song one [William Jon McCann]
* use glib class private data everywhere [William Jon McCann: 313688]
* add "Move to trash" command [Bastien Nocera: 315389]
* support DBus 0.6 [William Jon McCann]
* add support for "Watched Libraries] [James Livigston: 160159]
* add support for remote gnome-vfs [James Livingston: 140355]
* select source when hovering with drag [Thomas de Grenier de Latour:
323044]
* fix parsing of some RSS feeds [Ryan P Skadberg: 323153]
* use toolbar [William Jon McCann, James Livingston: 316238]
* always hide rather than remove db entries until old [James Livingston]
* ellipsise source names, instead of adding scroll bar [James
Livingston]
* allow year to be changed on multiple songs [Alex Lancaster]
* refactor playlist classes [Jonathan Matthew]
* add gstreamer 0.10 support [Jan Schmidt, James Livingston]
* fix drag-and-drop of URLs [Jonathan Matthew:323610]
* save metadata when forward/next are pressed [James Livingston: 320952]
* fix complaints about deprecated libnautilusburn API in 2.13 [James
Livingston]
* make entry-views just a display, and fix play orders [Jonathan
Matthew:323612]
* remove distro-packaging stuff [James Livingston]
* fix 5 sec pause when finding non-audio files with gst 0.10 [James
Livingston]
* fix playlist saving and shutdown [William Jon McCann: 322940]
* submit songs longer than 30 mins to AudioScrobbler [StÃle Lyngaas:
323639]
* make iradio dialog look like song one [William Jon McCann: 323306]
* make genre tag-writing not use artist [Alex Lancaster: 323642]
* more entry-view cleanup and refactoring [Jonathan Matthew: 323640]
* fix problem with dropping artist/album into an entry view [James
Livingston]
* add play queue [Jonathan Matthew: 107787]
* about dialog fixes and update AUTHORS and MAINTAINERS [William Jon
McCann]
* remove use of GMemChunks [James Livingston]
* remove unused podcast feed column [William Jon McCann: 322961]
* add support for the search box to playlists. [James Livingston]
* add support for more date formats in podcast feeds [William Jon
McCann]
* use "friendly time" for properties display [William Jon McCann]
* add fulscreen mode [William Jon McCann: 324075]
* allow iradio stations to be stream URLs [Jonathan Matthew]
* fix parsing of itunes:image element in podcasts [William Jon McCann]
* allow podcasts with no pubication date [Jonathan Matthew]
* add disc number to multiple-track properties window [Jonathan Matthew,
324777]
* read playcount and year from ipod db [Gunnar Steinn Magnusson]
* add 'last episode' field to the podcast feed dialog [Jonathan Matthew]
* assorted DAAP fixes [James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew, William Jon
McCann]
* add libnotify support [Jonathan Matthew]
* use G_DEFINE_TYPE [James Livingston, Lubomir Marinovm, William Jon
McCann]
* many play-order fixes [Jonathan Matthew]
* add default playlists [William Jon McCann: 323004]
* add support for Year criteria in auto playlists [Alex Lancaster:
321341]
* give names to playlists created via drag-n-drop [William Jon McCann:
326116]
* allow dbus to chaneg volume [Jonathan Matthew]
* stop playback after a podcast finished [James Livingston: 322077]
* fill in multi-track property window fields [James Livingston: 326054]
* don't lose hidden entries from playlists [James Livingston: 319278]
* add support for generic mass-storage audio players [James Livingston:
325602]
* don't get stuck on recursive symlinks [James Livingston: 125452]
* don't crash on hybrid audio+data cds [Jonathan Matthew]
* make startup faster [James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew: 323348 and
others]
* display number of tracks in browsers [William Jon McCann: 327372]
* add support for Year metadata from DAAP shares [Alex Lancaster:
327700]
* support chunked-encoding for DAAP [Jonathan Matthew: 326738, 318852]
* change default rating back to 0 [James Livingston]
* sort URIs when artist/album is dragged [Jonathan Matthew: 327494]
* remove items from browsers when tracks are hidden [James Livingston:
327061]
* don't spin when all tracks are unplayable [Jnonathan Matthew: 329329]
* minor UI and HIG fixes [Dennis Cranston, Jaap A. Haitsma, James
Livingston,
Jonathan Matthew, William Jon McCann, Bastien Nocera]
* assorted other bug fixes and minor improvements

Edit: changed file # from 9.3.1 to 0.9.3.1 for clarity

[younker]

use the overlay from BMG is ok. works fine for me.

[VValdo]

Hmm, for fun I decided to re-import my songlist. Getting some strange errors, but filed a bug...

just FYI..

W

[mabhobs]

I just emerged rhythmbox.0.9.3.1_p1 and it works ok.

A couple problems I ran into:

- First of all after using 0.9.2, I had to unmerge rhythmbox and all it dependecies.
- I had to switch the hal useflag off, because some dependencies (from rhythmbox and sound-juicer) were requiring the 0.4.8 hal version and some the 0.5.5 version, so this created a little mess.
- dbus flag is activated but I cannot play cds in the rhythmbox
- tagwriting does not work with tagwriting flag activated, it forgets the changes at ending rhythmbox

I am especially intersted in how to integrate cd playing (I think that has to do with dbus) in rhythmbox. Any suggestions?

A couple god things to mention:

- full screen capable
- Queing
- the bubbles that indicate a song change are gone