14 DAY TRIAL // We reported earlier on the release of the GNOME 3.23.2 desktop environment, which is an early development snapshot of the upcoming major GNOME 3.24 release, and we told you that we'd be covering the most important parts of this milestone.
Now, we've told you what's new in the Epiphany 3.23.2 web browser, and in this article, we'd like to tell you about some of the changes implemented in the GNOME Music application, which is the default music playback utility distributed as part of the GNOME Stack.
GNOME Music 3.23.2 is out as of November 21, 2016, and it's the second development release towards GNOME Music 3.24, adding a bunch of interesting improvements, such as support for the Cairo open-source 2D graphics library for scaling album covers, as well as a smoother progress bar.
Furthermore, GNOME Music 3.23.2 makes more calls to GNOME's Tracker search engine, search tool and metadata storage system asynchronous, addresses some long-standing issues reported by users with album separation, and does some general cleanup to the code and other UI elements.
Bug fixes and updated translations
There are also various bug fixes implemented in the GNOME Music 3.23.2 development release, and among the most interesting ones, we can mention improvements to the Artists View and Songs View, support for handling optional album-artist in queries, and the ability to use Unicode in translatable strings.
The missing license header was added to gnome-music.in, and the Czech, Slovenian, Friulian, Hungarian, and Norwegian bokmål language translations have been updated. You can download the GNOME Music 3.23.2 source archive right now from our website if you want to take it for a test drive, and check the changelog below for more details.