v4.8.1

Main Changes:

• Added function "Locate Artist" to bottom panel menu.
• Search can now find Unicode characters using ASCII only.

  Makes it easier to search titles with diacritics in them, e.g. Björk or Beyoncé.

• Fixed launching under KWin causing compositing to break.
• Various other bug fixes and tweaks.

v4.8.0

Changes:

• Added alternate metadata side panel layout style (Shown).

  To activate, select Settings > View > Use centered style

• Artist list now uses a new compact style when available space is narrow. (Shown)
• Added Japanese and Chinese Simplified translations. (Linux only)

  This should automatically apply based on system locale settings

• Tweaked tracklist behavior to prefer aligning album to top
• Tweaked gallery thumbnail responsiveness to scrolling
• Other UI tweaks and bug fixers

v4.7.1

Changes:

• Improved MPRIS2 compliance, including fix for KDE Plasma.

  Repeat and shuffle also should now be controllable for clients that support it.

• Added full scroll bar to album gallery.
• Added partial support for multi-artist vorbis tags.
• Added experimental "Download URL" function to call installed downloaders such as youtube-dl.

  This function only shows when a downloader is detected as installed.
  To use: For example, copy a Youtube link to clipboard then click MENU > Download URL. If all goes well, the item(s) will be downloaded to your music folder, converted to MP3 with embedded thumbnail cropped where appropriate and imported.
  Flatpak note: You will need to give permission to run external programs: sudo flatpak override com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak

• Bug fixes and other small UI tweaks

v4.7.1-2:

• Fixed possible crash in transcode settings

v4.7.0

New compact layout

This release brings multiple improvements for a narrower portrait window size.

To enter this view: Close any open panels including gallery, then resize window to the minimum horizontal width. The new mode will automatically activate.

Changes for narrow window include:

• Album art and track title now appear in the header bar
• Shuffle and repeat buttons now remain visible
• Fixed lyrics positioning in lyrics view
• The play and pause buttons are combined
• Gallery view now takes full width of window (shown below)

Also in this release:

• Fixed the appearance of playtime stars

• Fixed a bug with last.fm scrobbling not disabling

v4.7.0-1

• Fixed a bug with dragging side panel

v4.6.3

Main changes:

• Album gallery now supports drag and drop to re-arrange.
• [Linux] Chart generator now supports a cascade style mode and optional padding.
• Tweaked location of some settings

v4.6.2

Minor fixes for some bugs and regressions.

• Fixed replay gain not applying adjustment immediately
• Fixed numpad enter key not registering as enter
• Fixed artist list not functioning on artist click

v4.6.1

Bug fixes, mainly:

• Fixed incorrect date reading with MP3 files that used ID3v2.3 tags (tag rescan required to fix for existing tracks)
• [Critical] Fixed freeze on window restore with SDL2 update to v2.0.10 (Affects Arch/AUR users)

v4.6.0

New Features

• Added new theme: Carbon

In this theme, the bottom panel will automatically adapt its colour to the active album art!

Album chart generator

• Added top-chart generator function [Linux only]

This function generates an album grid chart of a given size as an image file. You can share them with your friends!

Tip: You can find this function by going Settings... > Functions > Chart Generator...

This function will target the actively viewed playlist and include albums in order starting from the top of the playlist. If you were to want a chart of your most played albums, you could use the Most played albums playlist generator function or you could edit a playlist yourself manually for items you want to include.

You can specify the font and font size to use in the config file.

Other changes

• Slightly improved startup speed
• [Linux] Fixed music and downloads folders not following xdg-dirs
• [Linux] Fixed player not showing in desktop default apps selector
• Fixed seeking past 100% not advancing track
• Other small tweaks and fixes

v4.5.2

Main change:

• Added toast when adding to queue for improved feedback

Misc chances:

• [Linux] Added setting to override subpixel font rendering to on
• Fixed gallery scroll positioning for some situations
• Fixed global search stalling in some cases

v4.5.1

Small changes:

• Global search now accepts the prefix artist to only return artists
• Fixed notification text in KDE Plasma
• Reduced frequency of image cache flushes
• Added LovePlaying and UnLovePlaying methods over DBus

This release is mostly to address Linux specific issues. So no Windows build for this minor version.