A Shrektacular changelog for a spring release (annyversary of Shrek movies in May).

• Loading animation during playlist processing
• Added MPRIS integration
• Added ability to open multiple files at once from file browser
• Now possible to drag and drop files to open (video / audio / subtitle - detected automatically)
• Added keyboard shortcuts window + new shortcuts
• Reworked fullscreen video experience
• Added option to set fullscreen player UI opacity
• New right click menu option to play a track next
• Added option to clear cache
• New utility pane for managing multiple saved playlists (folder-based for now)
• Hardened flatpak permissions (no filesystem access at all!)
• Added animations to make changes in the UI more visually appealing / coherent
• Faster loading speed with artwork caching (noticable with larger playlists)
• Reduced flatpak installed size by around 50% (runtimes not included)
• Reworked and improved seeking and slider
• Changed the default icon for tracks without artwork
• Polished karaoke lyric display
• Lots of backend and frontend related fixes and improvements
• Restructured development environment and codebase
• Other minor UI and UX tweaks

Fixes and improvements.

• Fixed issue where missing codecs caused crash
• Added System info page to Preferences

Major pointrelease.

• New About window using Adw.AboutWindow
• Added option to edit lyric tag in the metadata editor
• Updated runtime (Gnome 42 -> 43)
• Improved video playback performance (up to 2-3x better with hardware acceleration)
• Improved overall stability and compatibility
• Handle baked in subtitles
• Fixed flatpak related issues
• Added option to disable / enable hardware acceleration
• Switched from Gtk.Video to gtk4paintablesink from gst-rs
• Fixed missing app icon in some cases
• Many smaller bugfixes
• Hotfixes over 0.4.1...

Complete migration to GTK4/LibAdwaita.

• Switching back to GStreamer
• Improved video performance (finally)
• Lots of improvements regarding flatpak packaging
• Fixed issue related to playing mp4 videos
• Complete migration to LibAdwaita and GTK4 (nearly full rewrite)
• Lots of bugfixes
• Several GUI related performance fixes
• Updated custom widgets (TrackBox now based on ActionRow)
• Code-based GUI generation instead of Glade
• Brand new preferences (frontend and backend)
• Fresh look and feel (including refreshed icon)
• More attention to GNOME design standards
• Album cover now part of the TrackBox widget
• New minimal player mode
• Removed drag and drop support (reorder is still possible using arrows)
• Now using audio metadata to store lyrics by default (misc and same folder are still supported)
• Seeking with mouse is a bit choppy (bug in GTK4 issue 4939 - had to use workaround)
• Handling imperfect video files is WIP (crash is possible)
• Probably new bugs (not intentional though)

Short changelog, but quite big changes.

• Complete rebase on libVLC v3 (instead of GStreamer)
• Show current time when dragging slider
• Numerous bugfixes and improvements
• Performance optimizations (video playback 2-3x less CPU usage)
• Complete migration to flatpak

The first version from the 0.3.x branch (codename: Vereena), a milestone release.

• Added new keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+O, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+Space)
• AcoustID and MusicBrainz integration for automatic metadata fetching
• Added option to set preferred album cover size
• Greatly improved lyric fetching
• New helper scripts (translate, musixapi and letrasapi)
• New high quality artwork by Seh
• Added translation support (Hungarian and English for now)
• Added focus on currently playing track
• Added option to load lyric / subtitle from 'misc' subfolder (it is now the default location)
• Added option to set offset for synced lyrics
• Added option to confirm whether lyric is correct or not
• Fixed several bugs
• Improved theming
• Polished the GUI
• Optimized video playback

Another update with bugfixes and small changes.

• Modernized and revamped the settings menu
• Added option to change accent color
• Fixed packaging issues
• Fixed some bugs
• Added some shortcuts (double click to fullscreen, etc.)
• Added release notes to about section

Overall improvements and fixes.

• Added option to force dark mode
• Fixed some bugs (GUI and dependency related)
• Added option to enable background for subtitles
• Optimized code
• Fixed dependency issues
• Dropped AppImage support (it was fun, but it has no real use)
• Smaller size (compiled code is nice, but it has not much use again)

This is the first beta release of HBud (codename Yennefer), which means a lots of new features, improvements and fixes.

• Bugfixes and quality improvements
• Optimized stability and performane
• Added online lyric support (static lyric)
• Added AppImage build
• Added a lots of small comfort functions
• Now showing both elapsed and remaining time
• Added optional rounded corners (why not?)
• Own widgets instead of TreeView (improved visuals, stability and performance)
• Added new drag and drop support
• Added new keyboard controls (Up, Down, Left, Right, Del, F11, ESC)
• Added option to save playlist order (speeds up loading time too) - rescan to append new tracks
• Added proper sort method (multiple options)
• Added search method

Small updates and experiments.

• Bugfixes
• Performance improvements
• Using Nuitka as a compiler, including modules in the binary
• Added subtitle switch and option to visit OpenSubtitles / Subscenes
• Added cover art support for metadata editor

Initial public release.