ANNOUNCE: Whale 0.2.3

[florian weber <florian structbench com>]

Application
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Whale 0.2.3

Description
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Whale provides a simple interface to create playlists and store songs on
your Apple iPod. For example you can add songs to a playlist by simply
dragging the files from nautilus to the whale window.


Enhancements
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* XML is no longer used to store information for reading.
  Most of the song metadata is read directly out of the iTunesDB
  now.
  
* Loading the database should be alot faster now.

* You can drag directories on the playlists list and thereby
  create a playlist with the name of the directory and the mp3
  files in the directory. Its also possible to drag more than
  one directory and thereby create more than one playlist.

  
* On startup it's checked if the current iTunesDB file on
  your iPod has been created by Whale, if not you will get
  a little information alert, which reminds you to make sure
  that all the information gets imported correctly. 

  When you quit Whale, after importing a iTunesDB file which
  was not created by Whale, you get asked again if you want
  to save the iTunesDB.


Fixes
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* The about dialog no longer causes Whale to crash,
  when it's installed systemwide.
  
* In the latest releases whale would automatically write
  the iTunesDB file, even when users were not aware o
  
* For files which didnt had an id3 tage, sometimes they
  were written do the mp3 file on the harddisk and not
  to the one on the iPod.


Download
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http://www.structbench.com/debian/whale_0.2.3-1_all.deb
http://www.structbench.com/files/whale-0.2.3.tar.gz


GNOME Software Map entry
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http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/whale