Jack Flushell meldt ons dat er een nieuwe versie uit is van het onder linux gebruikers populaire X Multimedia System (XMMS). In het changelog is te lezen dat er een aantal nieuwe features inzitten ondersteuning van bzip2 skins. Ook zijn er uiteraard een aantal bugfixes gedaan. Hieronder het changelog:
Translation/Internationalization:
* New translations: Basque (eu), Tajik (tg), Vietnamese (vi), Nynorsk (nn), Thai (th).
General:
* --play-pause command to toggle playback.
* Updated README/man pages.
* Added xmms_remote_play_pause(), xmms_remote_playlist_ins_url_string()
* Realtime priority works again, it was broken in 1.2.5.
* bzip2 skins should now work regardless of Tar version.
* Key bindings are now saved when you exit XMMS.
* NetWM support updated to the latest specs.
* Handles @ in URL's properly if username:password@host is not used.
Playlist:
* Added 'Sort by date'
* Page Up/Down keys scrolls one page, instead of the 3 line inheritance from Winamp.
* Extended M3U lists now supported.
* Added reading of playlist info for selection.
Equalizer:
* Added Import/WinAMP Presets to the preset menu to import an entire set of WinAMP presets (WINAMP.q1) into the preset list.
Vorbis:
* Fixed an endianess problem on smallendian boxes
* 1.0rc1 or higher required.
MPG123:
* Handle more broken mp3s.
* No more "-" for mp3s with ID3v2 tags that contain no usable information.
* VBR files without XING header are now handled more gracefully.
Mikmod:
* Mikmod plugin now recognizes mod.* files.
CD Audio:
* Setting the environmental variable XMMS_CDDB_CLIENT_NAME, will make XMMS use that instead when identifying to CDDB servers.
* Better handling of CDDB requests.
* Don't poll current time when paused, can cause weird things on some drives.
OSS Output:
* Do endian/sign conversion if necessary.
ESD Output:
* Will use ESD stream volume instead of the OSS mixer as default.
* Assorted bugfixes/memleaks plugged.