v5.5.2

Changes:

• Fixed some bugs and crashes

v5.5.0

I'm excited to bring you version 5.5.0 of Tauon Music box!

Main changes:

Two new themes

This update improves theming capability. To showcase this, two new themes have been added: Neon Love and Sunken.

Improved background style in showcase view.

Compositing in the "Showcase" view has been improved along with a new optional pattern overlay that can be shown over the background art (shown).

Improved tab system

Tabs are no longer truncated when there isn't enough room on the top panel. Now instead tabs spill into overflow menus, allowing you to access all your playlists without needing to open the playlist side panel.

The playlist side panel itself has been slightly simplified with the removal of the playlist pin toggle switches, which have replaced with a menu function. The previous lock indicator is now used to show if a playlist is pinned to the top panel.

New layout: Gallery Only

You can now switch to a gallery only layout that excludes the tracklist.

Hint: To toggle this Gallery Only view, once in gallery view, click the gallery layout button a second time.

Other changes

• You can now search for playlists in the global search.
• The left panel now has a mode for just showing the queue.
• Its now possible to bind playlists 1-9 to keyboard shortcuts.

  Hint: If upgrading, you'll need to add these to your keymap file manually:

  jump-playlist-1 1 Ctrl
  jump-playlist-2 2 Ctrl
  jump-playlist-3 3 Ctrl
  jump-playlist-4 4 Ctrl
  jump-playlist-5 5 Ctrl
  jump-playlist-6 6 Ctrl
  jump-playlist-7 7 Ctrl
  jump-playlist-8 8 Ctrl
  jump-playlist-9 9 Ctrl
  

v5.4.3

• Added Portuguese translation.
• Added generator code f for find.
• Added option to place metadata on top in lyrics panel.
• Various tweaks and bug fixers.

v5.4.2

Changes:

• Added Swedish translation
• Bound Ctrl + L keyboard shortcut to "love selected"
• Some tweaks and bug fixes

v5.4.1

• Fixed some issues with loading album art
• Fixed gallery keyboard control mode not working

v5.4.0

Improved internet radio edition. 📻

This update contains improvements that build upon the previous "Open HTTP Stream" function. Now renamed to "Internet Radio", it provides better integration with the rest of the application. Changes:

• Redesigned the radio box interface to be more intuitive.
• You can now specify a title when saving a station.
• You can now open with and drag and drop pls, m3u and xspf files to import stations.

  Tip: Prefer xspf if available since it often contains the stream title and website link.

  You can also add the website link manually by copying it, then right click the saved station in Tauon and click "Paste website link" while holding Shift

• Radio songs will now be scrobbled (when scrobbler is enabled).
• You can now search lyrics for a playing radio track. (Will be discarded once song has ended)
• You can now enter mini-mode while streaming a radio station.
• Enabled support for radios with GStreamer backend.
• A BASS update fixes HTTPS streams not playing.

  Tip: To update BASS, click "Uninstall" in the audio settings tab, then click install again, wait a moment for the download to complete then restart the application.

Other changes:

• You can now quickly duplicate a playlist by holding Ctrl and dragging to the end of the tabs.
• Fixed copy and paste of folders from some file managers into Tauon.
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes.

Bonus:

• Moved some documentation to a new site https://taiko2k.github.io/tauonmb-site/

  While there's no built in browser for finding internet radio stations, you can find stations on the internet. You can search sites like the icecast directory or https://www.internet-radio.com.

  If you like vaporwave, try this station https://plaza.one/.

v5.3.1

This update contains improvements of the new generator code function. The function is now more accessible with a menu entry to access this and code instructions now being in-app.

Detailed changes:

• Added Genius to list of lyric sources.
• Added new feature "Substitute Lyrics Search" that lets you edit names used for searching lyrics. You can find it under Misc... of the showcase/lyrics context menu.
• Added menu function Make playlist auto-sorting under Sort....

  This per playlist setting is intended to replace the existing global import-auto-sort config setting, which may be removed in a future update.

• Added multiple new generator codes including column sort.

  Note: Support for omitting quotes when giving a name is now dropped.

• Auto generator code now triggers on a track drag and drop to playlist.
• Tweaked auto-theme function to avoid hard to read text colours.
• Various tweaks and bug fixes.

v5.3.0

Welcome to the super 5 star update 🌟

In addition to various bug fixes, this release brings three new features.

Note: Downgrading from this version is not supported.

Track and album ratings

Its now possible to set ratings for tracks. You can sort and filter by these new ratings too.

To enable: Go, MENU > Settings... > Tracklist and click Show track ratings.
If you also enable Show playtime stars a suggested rating will be shown.

By default, ratings are saved to the local database and not written to tags on track files.

Subsonic/Airsonic streaming support

Basic support has been added for importing and streaming music from a Subsonic (or API compatible) server. See here for instructions.

Also, network streaming support has been improved when using the GStreaming backend.

Auto reloading playlists

Generated playlists can now automatically update when new tracks are imported, when the new Update generated playlists on import setting is enabled. With this, you no longer need to delete and re-create generated playlists in order to update them.

There is also a new menu function called Regenerate that allows triggering this manually per playlist.

Generator strings (Smart Playlists)

You can now manually edit strings that generate playlists. This allows you to combine different filters and sorting options to a single playlist.

Quick example

Say you want a playlist of 10 random tracks.

1. Create a new playlist by clicking MENU then New Playlist.
2. Right click the new playlists tab and click Rename.
3. With the rename playlist box shown, press Tab. The box should turn purple.
4. Type the text: a st n10 then click away to enter.
5. Right click the playlist tab again and click Regenerate

For a detailed list of available codes and how they work, see here.

v5.2.1

Changes:

• Added French translation.
• Fixed crash when using "Remove embedded image" function.
• Fixed system language not being detected in some cases.

v5.2.0

Improved global search

• Improved search speed and responsiveness. ⚡
• Keywords album and composer can now prefixed in addition to artist to filter results.

  For example, to show only composer results, you can type: composer martin

Other changes

• Added CUE compatibility for sheets that have multiple target files.
• Moved and removed some options.
• Small tweaks and fixes.