The developers are pleased to announce the latest release of Aqualung, a music player for GNU/Linux. Website: http://aqualung.sf.net Without further ado, the ChangeLog is attached below. Enjoy, Tom 2006-10-03 Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net> Aqualung 0.9beta6 http://aqualung.sf.net This release introduces a fair number of substantial improvements: * Music Store builder: automatically build a Music Store by scanning the files on disk. Perform CDDB lookups & extract metadata on the fly. * MPEG decoder enhancements: robust file recognition, VBR and UBR file support, frame-accurate seeking, true gapless playback via eliminating encoder padding+delay read from LAME headers. * Fully revamped metadata support using TagLib. The result is a more complete implementation also supporting APE tags in Musepack files. * Automatic output driver detection: ability to startup without command line arguments (using default driver parameters). * Systray (a.k.a. Notification Area) support. * Handling of compressed MOD files (.gz and .bz2). * Resolved issue with JACK memory locking (which previously resulted in runaway memory consumption when running with realtime JACK output). * Aqualung compiles & runs under FreeBSD and Cygwin. NEW LIBRARY DEPENDENCIES: * TagLib >= 1.4 is now required for metadata support. http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html * GTK+ >= 2.10 is needed for the (optional) Systray support. DROPPED DEPENDENCIES: * libid3tag library is not required anymore (succeeded by TagLib).
