Version history for Tomahawk
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Changes for v0.7 - v0.8
- DESIGN/UX
- Shiny new interface. Simplified.
- MUSIC SERVICES / SOURCES
- Beats Music support
- Google Play Music (locker and on-demand streaming) support
- Others (developers can easily create and distribute their own Content Resolvers - a number of which we don’t ship with Tomahawk but can installed akin to the way browser extensions are distributed)
- INBOX
- Send, receive and forward tracks to your Tomahawk friends.
- FRIEND FEED
- Browse your friend’s recently played tracks (grouped by user) and listen to what they’ve listened to.
- UNIVERSAL MUSIC LINK SUPPORT
- Drag and drop support for iTunes, Deezer, Beats Music, Rdio, Spotify, SoundCloud links - Tomahawk looks them up and then finds the best source for you to listen to those songs. On Android you can set Tomahawk to be the default app for all of those links - so just click to open and listen from your source(s).
- NOTIFICATIONS
- Now Playing notifications (OS X & Windows) - support for OS-level notification systems (e.g. Notification Center) with fallback to its own native notification system
- NETWORKING / CONNECTIVITY
- IPv6 Support to make directly connecting to your other computers and networks much easier and more reliable
Changes for v0.6.1 - v0.7
- JavaScript Resolvers can now expose collections.
- Introduced bundle system for JavaScript Resolvers, called “axes”.
- Fixed playback-loop caused by duplicate tracks in a playlist.
- Improved peer handling and removed connection support through Twitter.
- Taking an account offline now also disconnects associated peers.
- Improved Spotify protocol handling.
- Added “Append to Playlist” context menu item.
- User-friendlier collection handling: added info-buttons for artists and albums. Double-clicking an item expands it now.
- Charts only load on-demand now.
- Fixed Diagnostics information not correctly updating.
- Fixed issue with hidden sidebar and panels.
- Fixed issues with some color schemes.
- Fixed playing files with special characters in the filename.
- Improved stability.
- Added translations for Catalan, Czech, Galician, Greek, Italian and Chinese.
- (Windows) Smoother and more responsive audio playback.
- (Linux) Fixed grid issues with GTK-styles.
Changes for v0.5.5 - v0.6.0 Beta
- Improved icon theme with vector graphics.
- Higher resolution artist and album images.
- You can now click artists, albums and tracks mentioned in artists’ biographies.
- New AudioControl logic - only enable Prev/Skip buttons if available.
- Added more options to right-click/context menus.
- Make friends’ currently playing song (in sidebar) clickable.
- Improve MusicBrainz plugin to use normalized artist names and avoid duplicate tracks.
- Access Control queries now stay on the bottom of the job view, removing the tendency to jump away from the mouse.
- Improved random mode, preventing songs from being played in too rapid succession.
- You can now choose between various view modes for your playlists.
- Support for high-resolution displays (e.g. Retina)
- Nicer layout for the Artist, Album & Track pages.
- Follow HTTP redirects when fetching Playlists.
- Main menu can now be hidden and instead be shown as a toolbar button.
- Connectivity controls in the toolbar.
- Cleaned up settings dialog.
- Ability to sync Spotify Starred Tracks with Tomahawk’s Loved Tracks.
- Fixed iTunes m3u playlist support (export from iTunes, import into Tomahawk).
- Support dropping of new Soundcloud user, track, set & likes URLs.
- Added HotNewHipHop as available chart.
- Add iTunes as available source for New Releases.
- Updates and additions to translations including: Japanese, Bulgarian, Finish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Swedish and more.
- (Linux) Allow disabling of playback notifications.