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.

18 Jun 2011

New minor release:

• New features:
  • Add a new lyrics provider (Letras)
  • 3084476 : Add hotmixradio.fr radios
  • Patch 3303037 (Justus Winter) : make the timeout property of connections configurable
  • 3134259 - start with specific profile
• Bug fixes and technical improvements:
  • Remove deprecated lyrics providers
  • Patch 3106565 : libnotify 0.7.0 remove some functions (From Sardem FF7)
  • Initialize libgcrypt (Patch from Justus Winter)
  • Patch 3308493 (Justus Winter) - cosmetic fixes for the connection widget
  • Fix bug 3302529 - segfault on opening/playing radiostreams
  • Fix bug 3152140 : wrong query to last.fm²
  • Fix bug 3082592 : Typo in Playlist Overwrite Warning
  • Fix bug 3153227 : Must close the window twice
  • Fix bug 3153400 : Sort search results by columns
  • Remove calls to deprecated methods (GTK 3 preparation)
  • Add new translation: Chinese (Hong Kong)

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25 Jul 2010

This new version of Ario adds some new features asked by users and fixes some bugs

• New features:
  • Rewrite 'search' panel to have dynamic search and lighter interface
  • Add 'Control' menu entry to control audio player
  • Add lyrc.com.ar as lyrics provider
  • 2793108 : "Add after playing song" command
  • 2889559 : Configurable playlist position (in tabs, below tabs or at the right of tabs)
• Bug fixes and technical improvements:
  • Use song title by default and not ArtistAlbum (Bug)
  • 2967434 : Sort titles in Collection-Frame (Titles) by CD# first
  • 2955523 & 2903337 : Reconnect when network is up again
  • 2889572 : Ario usage with keyboard only
  • Get any *.png or *.jpg file in local cover search
  • Speed up ario_mpd_get_albums and ario_util_sanitize_filename (Patches from Justus Winter)
  • Fix bug 3002216 : Option dialog not legible in ubuntu lucid
  • Add four new translations (English (Australia), English (Canada), Esperanto, Ukrainian)

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11 Feb 2010

This minor release fixes some bugs present in previous releases and update some translations.

• Fix bug 2938162 - Leolyrics does not work sometimes
• Fix bug 2937097 - Compilation error with libsoup 2.2
• Fix bug 2940403 - segfault while showing properties of songs
• Fix seg fault when volume is changed if MPD is stopped
• Fix bug 2944046 - Parts of the main window reappear

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21 Jan 2010

This minor release fixes some bugs present in Ario 1.4 and 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 and update some translations.

• Fix bug 2922521 - Search "Any" doesn't work
• Fix bug 2923989 - Increase timeout for file download
• Fix bug 2929456 - Saving playlists doesn't work
• Fix bug 2929363 - Last.Fm queue has wrong format
• Fix bug 2934583 - Drag an drop inverted
• Add Vietnamese and Occitan translations

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