简洁的音乐播放客户端：Sonata 1.5 发布

Sonata 是一款我颇为喜欢的 MPD 客户端。该音乐播放客户端给人的感觉是简洁而优雅。近日，作为 Sonata 的开发者，Scott Horowitz 通过邮件列表发布了新的 Sonata 1.5 版。这是一个包含许多变动的版本，最主要的是，Sonata 现在使用新的 Python-mpd 这个 Python 接口，对于程序执行速度的提升十分明显。另外，Sonata 1.5 还改善了界面，并修正了若干 bug。

Sonata 1.5 的详细更改记录为：

+ Replace album view with genre view for library
+ Display covers for albums in artist/genre views
+ Add menu items and shortcuts for playing library items after add/replace
+ Allow setting artwork for streams
+ Optional stylized album art with cases (Aidan)
+ New, faster python mpd interface (jat)
+ –popup argument to popup song notification (requires D-Bus) (Oleg)
+ Show ‘Untagged’ artists/genres in their respective library views
+ Allow DND of cover art from a web browser (Артем)
+ Allow DND of music from a file manager into playlist (requires mpd 0.14)
+ Preserve column percentages for current tab across window resizing
+ Speed up mpd-related commandline arguments
+ Switch back to last tab on second cover art click
+ Retain selection in lists after removing items
+ Hidden config option to expand notebook tabs (tabs_expanded)
+ Set ServiceProxy cachedir for lyrics to work around ZSI bug
+ Add Estonian translation (Mihkel)
+ Bug: Fix multimedia keys for gnome 2.22
+ Bug: Fix artwork for artists/albums with “/” in them (e.g. AC/DC)
+ Bug: Fix egg trayicon with vertical system tray
+ Bug: Weird bug in library-view
+ Bug: Prevent failure to load if tab positions are saved as None
+ Bug: Fix non-ascii characters in files for non-utf8 filesystems (zap)
+ Bug: Prevent crash with certain locales like turkish (jat)
+ Bug: Using filter causes playlist to jump to the top
+ Bug: Fix AudioScrobblerQuery (kigurai)

目前，你可以从这里下载 Sonata 1.5 的源代码。稍后，适用于各主流 Linux 发行版的二进制包可能也会跟进。