The album widgets and About dialog will be reworked

Nov 3, 2016 02:35 GMT  ·  By

We told you last week that the first development snapshot of the upcoming GNOME 3.24 desktop environment, versioned 3.23.1, is out for public testing, and it only came with a few updated components and apps that didn't bring major changes.

A few days later, more components started appearing on the FTP servers, including the GNOME Shell user interface and Mutter window and composite manager, and now the latest app to arrive as part of the GNOME 3.23.1 development release is GNOME Music, the default music player of the popular Linux desktop environment.

That's right, we're talking about GNOME Music 3.23.1, which will become GNOME Music 3.24 when the GNOME 3.24 desktop hits the streets next spring, on March 22, 2016. And it looks like the development team behind the GNOME Music app have prepared some very nice new features, starting with HiDPI support, which is about 90 percent done.

Split up views & widgets, non-blocking playlist retrieval

Among other exciting new features implemented in GNOME Music 3.23.1, we can mention the addition of composer label and search functionality, non-blocking playlist retrieval, reworked About dialog, album widgets, as well as art lookup, split up views and widgets, the ability to display multi-disc albums as such, and support for mnemonics.

Of course, there are also a bunch of much-needed improvements, starting with the Album view enhancements to show more details about an album and group tracks by disk if a music album contains multiple disks, better loading time for playlists, as well as better Album art scaling.

A few other bugs reported by users since previous releases of the application have been addressed as well in GNOME Music 3.23.1, whose source archive is ready for grabs right now through our website. The release also contains updates to the Basque and Simplified Chinese language translations.

GNOME Music 3.23.1 Changelog