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ZiK

0.17.1 release

14/12/2011

This new version is a bug fixes release.

0.17.0 release

19/04/2011

This release brings new icons (artwork by J. Kaiden). For now two sets are provided.
Window position is now restored after hiding/showing.
Tray icon module: add an option to hide ZiK on close.
Hotkeys module: add hide/show ZiK.
bug fixes.
See changelog for details.

0.16.2 release

12/03/2011

These releases fixes two bugs (ZiK crashes on start).

0.16.0 and 0.16.1 Releases

11/03/2011

These releases brings some novelties.
A gem is now available. ZiK installs missing gstreamer plugins if 0.90.9 version (to be released) of ruby-gnome2 is installed. Playlist songs can be exported to a directory.
Some bugs fixes are also shipped with these releases.

0.15.3 Release

08/11/2010

This release fixes bugs. One of these bugs causes ZiK to crash on a fresh installation.

0.15.2 Release

09/10/2010

This release fixes bugs in assistant and brainz module that can cause ZiK to quit.
The menu item playlist/edit is now hiden due to a graphical bug. You can still edit the playlist via edit button and context menu.

0.15.1 Release

09/10/2010

ZiK version 0.15 is released

An assistant is showed first time ZiK is launched.
Editing playlist and searching for tracks are now intregrated in the main window.
More tracks can be shown in playlist be using compact view.
Add a man page.
Support ruby-taglib2 and new version of rghk (0.2) and gtk (2.22).
Bugs fixes.
Update french translation.
See the changelog for more infos.

0.14.0 Release

01/08/2010

ZiK version 0.14 is released. A lot of changes are inclued in this release.

File can now be added from external applications to the current playist if the single session option is checked in preferences.
A new module is added to tag your tracks automatically from musicbrainz.org.
Access to modules configuration is now granted even if the modules are not loaded.
Show track duration is shown for allmost all audio file formats.
Improve xspf format support.
Add a playlist file from outside (i.e. from nautilus).
Some bug fixes.
Update french translation.

ZiK can now be run under ruby 1.9. A lot of bugs are fixed.

0.13.1 Release

08/03/2010

This is a bug fixes release. Two changes are included:
fix a bug that freeze ZiK when playing some radios,
add artists in about dialog.

0.13.0 Release

28/02/2010

ZiK 0.13 can now be downloading on rubyforge.
This version brings a new module to set global hotkeys.
ZiK will now use the active playlist when next/previous buttons are hitted and do not rely on active view for choosing the next/previous track.
The graphical interface is improved and some buggs are fixed. See changelog for more details. To use global hotkeys you need to install rghk.

0.12.0 Release

15/12/2009

This new release brings improvements in modules. For examples : sytem notifications can be used to display the name of the playing song, scrolling on the tray icon can trigger actions like playing the next or decrease the volume. It also provides fixes to bugs.
To use sytem notifications you need to install ruby-libnotify.

French website

11/12/2009

ZiK has a new website written in french: http://zik.developpez.com/. I thank developpez.com for hosting the site.

PPA repository for Ubuntu

04/12/2009

Ubunteros can now install ZiK via their favorite installation tool (Synaptic, apt-get, aptitude...). They just need to add the ZiK repository to their sources. See the installation page for more details on how to use PPA.

0.11.0 release

17/11/2009

This new version focus on improving launching time. Radios list can now be reordered.

0.10.0 release

07/10/2009

This release add a new module used to display albums cover.

0.9.1 release

08/02/2009

This release fix two bugs. One of them (introduced in previous version) could prevent ZiK from running.

0.9.0 release

03/02/2009

This new release brings:
xspdf support (a free playlist format),
relative paths in playlist,
a better integration with desktop,
support for modules (in order to add optional features),
desktop notify module,
shorter launching time.

For debian users, download the ZiK-0.9.0-2.deb (instead of ZiK-0.9.0-1.deb).

0.8.1 release

21/01/2009

The 0.8.1 version brings small improvements. See ChangeLog for details.

0.8.0 release

13/01/2009

You can now use drag&drop to add songs in playlist and delete songs with the del key.
This version improves webradios experience and add sorting options. It also fixes several bugs.

0.7.1 release

02/01/2009

This release fix a bug. You can now play webradio even if the audio cd support is not enabled. The 0.6.1 version fix the bug for the 0.6 branch.

Debian package

01/01/2009

I upload a debian package for the 0.7.0 version. It was tested on Ubuntu 8.10.

0.7.0 release

01/01/2009

The 0.7.0 version is now release. Audio-cd can now be played. The graphical interface changes a bit.
The code was rewritten from scratch. The gstreamer binding from ruby-gnome2 project is used in this version. If you want to use the ruby-gstreamer0.10 binding try the 0.6.0 release. This release implements the same fonctions as the 0.7.0 one but the gstreamer binding.
Let me know if you experiment bugs.

0.5.3 release

14/02/2008

First public release on rubyforge.