Fedora 10 Update: gnome-applet-music-2.5.1-1.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-0942
2009-01-24 01:33:52
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Name        : gnome-applet-music
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 2.5.1
Release     : 1.fc10
URL         : http://www.kuliniewicz.org/music-applet/
Summary     : A GNOME panel applet to control various music players
Description :
Music Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control a
variety of different music players from the panel. Music Applet provides easy
access to information about the current song and the most important playback
controls.

Music Applet is the successor to the Rhythmbox Applet and currently supports
the following music players:
 * Amarok
 * Audacious
 * Banshee
 * Exaile
 * MPD
 * Muine
 * Rhythmbox
 * Quod Libet
 * VLC
 * XMMS1 and XMMS2

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Update Information:

Music Applet 2.5.1 contains fixes for the applet hanging after the player has
already closed and invalid album-art display in Rhythmbox "popup" notifications.
Music Applet 2.5.0 adds support for Amarok 2, fixes uncontrolled growth in
applet with long metadata strings (Fedora bug #452420), improves loading of
album art from Rhythmbox, contains fixes for the rating scale change in Exaile
0.2.14 (from 8-star to 5-star), fixes improper entity encodings of song titles
in notification popups, and replaces the deprecated mpdclient2 library with
python-mpd in the MPD plugin.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 21 2009 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 2.5.1-1
- Update to new upstream release (2.5.1), which fixes the applet hanging when
  the player is closed, and processing of album art from Rhythmbox so that it
  is shown properly in the information tooltip.
* Wed Jan  7 2009 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 2.5.0-1
- Update to new upstream release (2.5.0), which adds support for Amarok 2,
  fixes uncontrolled growth in applet with long metadata strings (#452420),
  improved loading of album art from Rhythmbox, fixes for the rating scale
  change in Exaile 0.2.14 (from 8-star to 5-star), fixes improper entity
  encodings of song titles in notification popups, and replaces the deprecated
  mpdclient2 library with python-mpd in the MPD plugin.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #480175 - cover art in notification popup seriously misbehaving....
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480175
  [ 2 ] Bug #481085 - Package is somewhat old and problematic
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481085
  [ 3 ] Bug #452420 - Very long titles/info push "Applications/Places/System" menus off the screen
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452420
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gnome-applet-music' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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