MediaBox Media Center Release Notes New in release 0.96.5 (03 Jun 2009) Support for LRC file format for music lyrics Slideshow in the image viewer Special lists "50 Recently Played" and "Bookmarked Files" Sleep and wake up timer (fall asleep and wake up with music or FM radio) Rewind and fast forward Shuffle and repeat modes can be switched by clicking the status bar icons Improved UI rendering performance and reduced memory footprint Improved search feature with skipping to next and previous results Cleaner user interface Thumbable scrollbar Translucent dialog screens Reduced startup time mplayer backend doesn't intercept key presses anymore Plugin compatibility API bumped to 1.1 Support for reference nodes in UPnP content directories Bugfixes ============================================================================== New in release 0.96.4 (06 Mar 2009) Browse music by genre Improved UI rendering performance Advanced list navigation with slide effects and remembering last position Fixed some media indexing bugs Downscaling of hi-res videos for smoother playback in the mplayer backend Display can be kept lit while playing media Headset button gestures (1x: PLAY/PAUSE, 2x: NEXT, 3x: PREVIOUS) in the maemo input schema Small workaround to get smoother video playback with mplayer on maemo Option in the media scanner preferences to reset thumbnail previews and have them generated again Command line options for disabling plugins Plugin compatibility API bumped to 1.01 Bugfixes ============================================================================== New in release 0.96.3 (18 Jan 2009) Back button closes embedded album listing. "All Tracks" option in artists view for listing all tracks belonging to an artist at once Configuration option for changing the player backend per media format Revised mediaplayer backend implementation making creation of new backends easier New experimental player backend for GStreamer Thumbnails and the ID tag cache are stored on the medium where the associated files are located Fixed bug that stopped thumbnailing after an error Use insanely high number for parameter RequestedCount when browsing UPnP server in order to retrieve all items even from UPnP servers misinterpreting the RequestedCount part in the ContentDirectory specification (fixes ORB) Fixed bug that broke compatibility with Microsoft's UPnP media servers ============================================================================== New in release 0.96.2 (03 Jan 2009) Loading themes from ~/.mediabox/themes doesn't raise an exception anymore Smoothly animated zooming in the image viewer Preloading the next image in the background in the image viewer Configuration option for keeping the display light on Refuse thumbnailing or loading of images with more than 8 megapixels Caching of UPnP directory server listings ============================================================================== New in release 0.96.1 (30 Dec 2008) Playlist gets saved after reordering Fixed bug where after removing items a list gets stuck and cannot be scrolled anymore Made indexing behavior less optimistic to avoid dead entries Albums can be closed in the folder view Adding an image folder to a playlist adds its contents ============================================================================== New in release 0.96 (28 Dec 2008) Instant theme switching without the need to restart New plugin architecture for extending MediaBox Folder-based browsing UPnP framework and UPnP AV support Media bookmarking per file Shuffle & repeat Playlist editor and playqueue Search-as-you-type with finger-friendly on-screen keyboard File indexing with inotify kernel support and tag-based browsing Car-mode for easy controlling while driving (play/pause, previous, next) Bugfixes ============================================================================== New in release 0.95 (05 May 2008) Playlist editor with support for drag-sorting Huge memory and speed optimizations (folders with several hundred songs load without problems) Music tracks are sorted by track number if available Search-as-you-type for title text in albums and playlists (for models with a keyboard) Revised UI based on user suggestions Bugfixes ============================================================================== New in release 0.94.2 (21 Feb 2008) Fixed integer bug in gconf-workaround module (which is used where gconf Python bindings are unavailable due to a packaging bug in pymaemo) Fixed bug in theme selector touch sensitivity ============================================================================== New in release 0.94.1 (19 Feb 2008) Added support for non-UTF-8 text encodings in ID3 tags FM radio stops playing when playing other media Slightly smoother video playback with mplayer Fullscreen video no longer grabs input MediaBox no longer hangs at startup after clearing the media collection Bugfixes ============================================================================== New in release 0.94 (10 Feb 2008) Improved caching in media scanner to further minimize scanning time Theme enhancements Media folders can now be filtered by media content types Automatic detection of memory card replacement (scans for new media) Support for the button on the headset (pause/play) Loudspeakers can be switched on for FM radio Support for reading FLAC tags Alternative media player backend for the osso-media-server adds support for more media formats (such as real media and MP4) Bugfixes ============================================================================== New in release 0.93 (24 Jan 2008) Highly improved media scanner for quick scanning and quick startup. Support for various ID3 tag versions (v1, v2.2, v2.3, v2.4). Support for album art embedded in ID3 tags. High-performant GDK-based rendering engine for a responsive UI and more transition effects. Buttons for skipping and zooming in the image viewer. Enhancements in the default theme. Application icon now is the proper size on OS 2008. Bugfixes