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Release Notes 1.5
We are proud to announce a new version of TunesViewer, a simple, easy-to-use, open-source, application for Android and Unix-like systems to easily access podcasts and media on iTunesU.
The 1.5 release has seen improvements in many fronts, most of which are in adaptation of the code for changes in Apple's iTunesU system, cleaner code, and some improvements in the project administration.
- Fixed many bugs.
- Easier production of up-to-date packages for Debian-derived distributions (which include Ubuntu and Linux Mint, for example).
- Better options of specifying folders where the downloads should be placed.
- New, more attractive icon for TunesViewer.
- TunesViewer now stores its configuration in XDG compliant locations, which should make it easier to backup your data.
- Some new command-line options can be seen with the invocation of
tunesviewer --help. Expect more options to be available. - Other minor (but important) usability changes in the user interface.
- Fixed partial file download when network disconnects.
- Show star ratings.
- Fixed other bugs.
- Download button turns to "open" when file has downloaded.
- Bookmarks screen with listing of files in downloaded podcasts.
- Firebug-lite and other debug improvements.
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For development-related discussion and planning, we have created a mailing list at mailto:tunesviewer-users@lists.sf.net.
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Support requests can be much faster to be acted upon if they are not sent to individual developers, but to a place where it is visible to all developers. The preferred place for reporting technical bugs with the desktop version is https://github.com/rbrito/tunesviewer/issues, or for Android, https://bitbucket.org/LBryan/tunesviewer-android/issues?status=new&status=open
While reporting a bug or filing a feature request, please inform us the version of TunesViewer that you are using, the operating system (if it is Linux, which distribution) and any other information that you think that may be appropriate.
We encourage you to be as verbose and descriptive as possible, so that we can better understand what the issues are.
The source code of TunesViewer (desktop) has seen a lot of changes since the release of version 1.4. The code has seen more than 250 commits from 3 contributors, with almost 60 files changed, more than over 6000 lines of code added and more than 3400 lines of code removed.
Among the many changes, some highlights are:
- Extensive revision of the Debian packaging has been made, so that newer releases can be done in a faster and more automated way.
- Creation of some unit-tests (with more to come).
- More modular code-base, easing maintainability and code reuse.
- Removal of some dead-code spots.
- Adaptations to changes in Apple's iTunes Store.
- Change of license of the project from Apache 2.0 to the GPL version 2 or later.