GNOME Music 3.16 Beta 2 is available for testing

Mar 4, 2015 06:01 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME Music app, the default audio playback software of the controversial GNOME desktop environment, has been updated for GNOME 3.16, due for release in March 25. GNOME Music 3.16 Beta 2 is a bug fix release that addresses a number of issues discovered in the previous Beta version of the software.

According to the changelog, the second Beta release of the upcoming GNOME Music 3.16 app fixes an issue with the now playing indicator, which will no longer disappear when switching between artist albums and artists, an in-app notification issue has been repaired, and makes an undeleted playlist to reappear at its previous location.

Furthermore, smart playlists can now be protected against deletion and renaming, toggleable stars in the Playlists and Songs views has been implemented, favorite stars will now be displayed in Album, Artist, and Search views, and the application will no longer play the last song of an Album in loop when in No Repeat/Mix mode.

Playlists and Songs views will be refreshed when toggling stars

The Playlists and Songs views will now be refreshed automatically when the user toggles stars, the Smart Playlist functionality has been improved, a popover will replace the gear menu in the Playlists view, and a loading animation will now be displayed when the ‘Add to Playlist’ button is clicked in the Artists and Albums view.

As usual, numerous language translations have been updated, among which we can mention Swedish, Basque, Greek, Chinese (Taiwan), Brazilian Portuguese, Aragonese, Czech, Galician, Norwegian bokmal, Hebrew, Slovak, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, French, and Italian. Also, the German desktop file keyword has been fixed.

All users can download the GNOME Music 3.16 Beta 2 sources right now from Softpedia. When testing the software, please keep in mind that its code is unstable and it is not suitable for production machines. Do not hesitate to report bugs you discover in the application to GNOME’s Bugzilla.