Ario is a GTK2 client for MPD (Music player daemon). The interface used to browse the library is inspired by Rhythmbox but Ario aims to be much lighter and faster.
It runs on various Unixes (Linux, OpenBSD, Mac OS X...) and Microsoft Windows.

16 May 2009

This new version of Ario fixes some bugs found in previous version and adds a wide range of new features.

• New features:
  • Support tags edition if Ario is on the same computer as MPD
  • Improve XMMS 2 support (based on a patch from Samuel Cuella)
  • Improve 'Goto playing song' feature (Feature request 2544475)
  • Add different playlists modes:
  • Normal
  • Queue (Fetaure request 2490517)
  • Dynamic playlist (Feature request 1945679)
  • Feature request 2483907: Add search panel in Playlist
  • Feature request 2212482: Use Ario without a right-button
  • Feature request 2603132: Sort songs by track number instead of title in library browser
  • Feature request 2671689: tray icon: mute sound option on middle button click
  • Update radio list (Patch from Emmanuel Lacour
  • Add possibility to copy songs in playlist instead of move
  • Add AlbumArtist tag support
  • New SVG icon for better rendering
• Bug fixes and technical improvements:
  • Set song total time to 0 when music stopped
  • Empty playlist on deconnection
  • Replace Glade by GtkBuilder
  • Fix drag & drop of several artists/genres/...
  • Remove forbidden caracters in filenames
  • Fix bug 2790479: "x-www-browser" is not common in Linux
  • Fix bug 2790473: Cannot replace current playlist with 2nd or lower playlist
  • Fix bug 2764239: (Unable to add a new radio when the list is empty)
  • Fix bug 2691076: Drag drop not working (on 64 bits systems)
  • Use GtkVolume instead of custom widget
  • Improve performances and memory usage
  • New translation: japanese
  • Update translations
• Windows:
  • Move W32 compilation to CodeBlocks

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09 Mar 2009

This minor release fixes a bug on PPC platform (Debian bug #517254).

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19 Jan 2009

This new minor release of Ario fixes a few bugs found in previous version and update some translations.

• Fix compilation error on OpenBSD
• Fix slowness on deconnection or on ario exit.
• Update elapsed text field when slider is moved (Patch from Samuel Cuella)
• Remove deprecated usage of GtkTooltips
• New croatian translation.

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16 Dec 2008

This new version of Ario fixes some bugs found in previous version and adds a wide range of new features.

• New features:
  • Add support of Python plugins
  • [ 1994706 ] Add a timeout before tray tooltip showing
  • [ 2016602 ] Play on enter
  • [ 2017480 ] Authorize Only one instance of Ario
  • [ 1897794 ] Notifications options
  • [ 2069383 ] Drag and drop images for album art
  • [ 2057561 ] Add --minimized option
  • [ 2088157 ] New options to update MPD library on startup and stop MPD on close
  • [ 2017479 ] "Replace in playlist" command
  • [ 2110096 ] Track change notification with libnotify
  • New plugin: Song Information
  • Add the possibility to reorder columns in the playlist
  • Add the possibility to configure the different trees in the library tab
  • Support of empty/unknown tags (Require MPD 0.14)
  • "Crop" in playlist
  • Playlist shuffle (proposition from Bartosz Pastudzki)
  • Experimental support of XMMS2
  • Experimental support of "idle" MPD command to reduce CPU and bandwith consumption. (Require MPD 0.14)
  • New translations: Arabic, Thai, Danish, Turkish, Finnish, Norwegian Bokmal, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Low German.
• Bug fixes and improvements:
  • Reduce volume adjustment step (patch from Simon Sehier)
  • Fix mmkeys plug-in (patch from Stanislav Shramko)
  • Launch web pages asynchronously
  • Update radios list
  • [ 2071774 ] / Debian Bug #495757: Fix notification icon background
  • Debian Bug #495687 : ario_mpd_connect_to : problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Connection refused
  • Fix text encoding problem with lyric wiki
  • Fix drag and drop positions in playlist
  • Auto reconnect to MPD on error.
  • Fix problem with files on non UTF8 systems (patch from Заболотный Андрей)
  • Rewrite first launch assistant
  • Asynchronous fill of long artists/albums/songs lists

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