Harmonium 0.7.2 Released

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I've released Harmonium 0.7.2 with the following changes:

• You can now edit the "Now Playing" playlist.
• Added basic support for displaying cover art in *.jpg files.
• The "Now Playing" playlist browser now shows the shuffled playlist when shuffle is turned on.
• Fix for screen saver always coming on after roughly 5 minutes even if it was turned off, or set for a longer delay.
• Added support for navigating the Edit Playlist screen with the number keys.
• Fixed a crash related to album art.

I'm obviously not putting much thought into these version numbers. It is what it is.

A couple notes about the album art changes:

By default, if no embedded art is found, Harmonium will look for files in the mp3 file's folder in this order:

• cover.jpg
• folder.jpg
• *.jpg

The last one means that any JPG file in the folder could potentially be treated like album art, if nothing else is found. If you've set up cover art for your library using Winamp, that art should now appear in Harmonium.

If you've got a decent sized library with very little embedded album art, this change will noticably increase the server's startup time. If that bothers you (especially if you don't have any jpg art, either), you can tweak your wrapper.conf to disable the change. There are directions in the file itself, but the quick version is this. Three new optional wrapper.conf parameters have been added:

• ignoreEmbeddedArt
• ignoreJpgFileArt
• preferJpgFileArt

They can be combined in all the ways that make sense. For example, if you've got no album art anywhere, and you just want Harmonium to start up as fast as possible, you could add both the ignoreEmbeddedArt and ignoreJpgFileArt parameters to disable album art altogether. This is also a useful troubleshooting configuration for people experiencing occasional crashes, because 9 times out of 10, album art is to blame.

If you've got mostly file-based cover art, adding the preferJpgFileArt parameter will look for files first.

If you're happy with the way Harmonium is handling your cover art now, you don't need to change anything.