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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14 Jun 2008
A new version of Ario has been released. This new version mainly fix the different bugs found in Ario 1.0 and implement some features asked by users. I would like to thank users that opened bugs reports, features requests or that sent me their feedbacks by e-mail. It really help me to improve Ario!
- Bugs:
- Debian Bug - #480361 mpd autodetection fails to find 127.0.0.1:6600
- Fix a problem of IPv4/IPv6 mix in avahi
- Fix a bug with big covers
- Fix a bug when user press space in the search form
- Fix the local cover detection for automatic download
- Fix encoding problem for lyricwiki
- Fix a bug with connect/disconnect
- Add support of different languages in windows version.
- Limit the width of covers in cover selection window.
- [ 1958578 ] doubleclick on column header in search result adds song
- [ 1952136 ] Local cover search starting from the track directory
- [ 1968010 ] Duplicate albums when browsing by artist (Windows version)
- [ 1968014 ] How to change language on windows version?
- Features:
- Add similar artists (from last.fm) in playlist
- Add the year in the album/cover column
- Add albums covers as icon for drag and drop.
- Add playlist customisation options (show/hide columns, reorder columns...)
- Add new columns in playlist.
- Add the possibility to show/hide some panels or the playlist.
- Add a new command : "Add to playlist and play"
- Add an option to sort albums by year
- [ 1949192 ] "Minimize to tray on close" option
- [ 1952903 ] Duration format (hh:mm:ss instead of mm:ss)
- [ 1945679 ] Dynamic playlist with last fm (not completely)
- [ 1965376 ] Playlist autoscroll
- [ 1964508 ] UI customization
- [ 1952136 ] Local cover search starting from the track directory
- Technical changes:
- Add libsoup2.4 support (used by default instead of version 2.2)
- Use gcrypt md5 function
- New translations : Czech, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Swedish and Irish.
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13 Apr 2008
After several months of development, the first major version of Ario has been released.
The main changes since the last version are :
- Plugins support with already several plugins:
- A Wikipedia plugin
- A file system browser plugin.
- An audioscrobbler plugin
- A multimedia keys plugin
- "Web Radio" source becomes a plugin
- Complete reorganisation of the cover and lyrics systems to have different covers providers and be able to activate/desactivate and reorder them.
- Automatic download of album covers when a song is played
- Add the possibility to search for similar artists on last.fm.
- Remove the dependency on gconf. Add a new config serialization engine (in XML).
- Automatic reconnection when profile changes
- Add a progress bar when Ario connects to MPD.
- Add different icons depending on playing state
- Add the possibility to get album covers from music directory if mpd is on localhost
- Add a "go to playing song" command
- Microsoft Windows version
- Add new translations: Catalan, English (GB). Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian
- Performance enhancement and bug fixes.
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15 Feb 2008
The fourth release of Ario is out.
The main changes are :
- New artworks.
- New functionality : Songs and albums properties.
- Add MPD statistics in preferences.
- Add the possibility to enable/disable audio outputs.
- Add a "lazy mode": the synchronization with MPD is disabled when Ario is hidden.
- New sexier tooltip on tray icon.
- Performance enhancements and bugs fixes.
- New translations.
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10 Jan 2008
The third release of Ario is out.
The main changes are :
- New functionality : 'first launch assistant' to configure ario.
- New functionality : zeronconf support to automaticaly detect mpd servers.
- New functionality : Possibility to have different connection profiles.
- New functionality : Automatic download of song lyrics.
- Performance enhancements and reduced memory footprint.
- Bug fixes.
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28 Oct 2007
The second revision of Ario 0.2 is out.
It is a minor release fixing some bugs.
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08 Sep 2007
The second release of Ario is out.
The main changes are :
- New functionality : Search in music library.
- New functionality : Possibility to listen to web radios.
- New functionality : Support MPD playlists.
- New options in 'preferences'.
- Performance enhancements.
- Bug fixes.
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23 Aug 2007
The second revision of Ario 0.1 is out.
The main changes are :
- Code refactoring : New files and classes names.
- Remove some dependencies : Gnome VFS, eel...
- Bug fixes.
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16 Aug 2007
The second revision of Ario 0.1 is out.
The main changes are :
- Ario doesn't crash anymore if MPD restarts.
- Some bugs linked to gconf are fixed.
- Ario now uses curl instaed of Gnome VFS to retrieve remote files and it now support proxies.
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05 Jun 2007
The second revision of Ario 0.1 is out.
The main changes are :
- Library view using an artists/albums/songs hierarchy.
- View and control using the tray icon.
- Download of cover arts from amazon.
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