Parole Media Player 0.6.1 Released

Parole Media Player 0.6.1 Released

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Parole Media Player 0.6.1 improves the user experience, upgrades playlist search, and includes fixes for DVD device enumeration and M3U file loading.

What’s New?

This release builds on the changes from 0.5.90 and 0.5.91.

General Improvements

  • Added “Contents” menu item in the Help menu. Goes to online documentation.
  • Removed redundant settings button from the playlist
  • Improved search in the playlist
  • Plugin API documentation updates

Bug Fixes

  • Properly use the specified device, and use the correct URI ( LP: #1098323)
  • Fixed crash for m3u files with all absolute paths

Parole Media Player has also been patched in Ubuntu 14.04 to load plugins again properly! ( LP: #1286046, LP: #1168810, Xfce #9904)

Screenshots

Parole Media Player 0.6.1 displayed with the Greybird GTK theme, playing The Ninjas. The sound indicator is open and shows the current track.
Parole’s plugins work again in Ubuntu 14.04
Parole Media Player 0.6.1 displayed with the Greybird GTK theme, playing Wonderful. The playlist panel is open and displays the current track.
Parole with the latest Greybird theme.
Parole Media Player 0.6.1 displayed with the Numix GTK theme, playing Big Buck Bunny.
Parole with the latest Numix theme.

Getting Parole Media Player

Ubuntu 14.04 users will find Parole Media Player 0.6.1 in the repositories.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install parole

The source files can be downloaded from Parole’s download page for other distributions.

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