media-player

Xnoise media player 0.2.15 released with visual changes, animations and new features

As simply looking at the Ubuntu world, one notices applications that have a slow development rhythm, as well as applications that constantly land new and new versions.

Xnoise can be easily characterized by the latter description, due to its constant implementation of new functionalities and new fancy visual additions.

Xnoise 0.2.15 has been released just now, further refreshing its interface, along with exciting additions.

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Tomahawk 0.3 released with new resolvers, enhanced search and UI improvements

Tomahawk, the open-source fancy social media player, has been updated to 0.3 version, bringing numerous changes in terms of performance, UI and new features.

What is new in Tomahawk 0.3?

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Minitunes 1.0 released with new icon, search support and more

Days ago Minitunes 0.1.1 landed in Oneiric Ocelot's main repos and, after a long period of time since its last release, Minitunes has been updated to 1.0 version, "I decided to skip 0.x numbers as it seems many users outside the Free Software circles would consider the software as beta or alpha, which is not".

What is new in Minitunes 1.0?

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Minitunes 0.1.1 has landed in Oneiric Ocelot's main repos (no PPA required)

Minitunes transforms your music listening experience with a clean uncluttered but fancy properly structured UI.

The left-side area contains:

  • "Artists" where obviously all of your artist are exposed
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VLC 1.1.10 released with numerous improvements (Oneiric Ocelot)

VLC 1.1.10

VLC 1.1.10 has just landed in Oneiric Ocelot's main repos (can be installed via Ubuntu Software Center, Synaptic, etc).

What's new in VLC 1.1.10?

  • "webm" files can now by opened by VLC's Unity launcher item via drag&drop
  • numerous improvements in pulseaudio output plugin
  • some annoying crashes have been fixed
  • support for dra&drop of any URL (VLC 1.1.10 plays now files from shared folders, etc)
  • GNOME mime-types for "Ogg Vorbis" and "Ogg Theora"
  • bug fixes
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Banshee 2.0 released with cleaner UI and new features

The successor of Banshee 1.8, Banshee 2.0, the "culmination of six months' work by 36 developers and dozens of translators, bug reporters, and testers", has just been released bringing many new features and a huge number of bug fixes (more that 270 since Banshee 1.8).

What is new in Banshee 2.0?

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Clementine 0.7 released with "edit track information" and many new features

Clementine 0.7, a cross-platform music player based on Amarok 1.4, has been released with new features and many bug fixes.

What is new in Clementine 0.7 ?

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Banshee gets Ubuntu One Music Store and AmazonMP3 in Natty Narwhal by default and a decent revenue

It seems that recently there have been some contradictory discussion between the Banshee team and Canonical concerning the percentage of the revenue given by Canonical (who wants to become profitable and sustainable) to Banshee/Gnome Foundation (related to Ubuntu One Music Store and AmazonMP3 plugins).
The conclusions (settlement) are:

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