Venturous 1.4

Most important changes:

• Custom actions improvements:
  • containing directory is now available in the command syntax;
  • "Open containing directory" default action no longer fails when the path contains certain special symbols, works in MS Windows and is enabled by default;
  • xdg-open is now used in default actions;
• It is now possible to run independent Venturous instances concurrently. "Independent" means instances with different preferences directories, for example owned by different users of the same system.
• A new option - Skip recent history item count - allows to exclude a specified number of recently played items from random selection. This option can be used to eliminate the possibility of the same item being played twice in a row or soon after the previous time.

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead.
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which will not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn will cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up. Pre-built Windows binaries are no longer released because building them takes time and I doubt anyone uses Venturous on this platform.

Venturous 1.3

Most important changes:

• Switched to Qt5 by default because the Qt5 issues with fonts and notification area icon are fixed now. Qt4 is still supported. In order to use Qt4 pass qt4 argument to update_submodules_and_configure script.
• Tooltips with absolute path to item are shown in playlist tree now.
• Added Preferences directory action to the File menu.
• File patterns can be more finely configured now.
• Compiler and Qt versions are shown in the About Venturous window now. Removed About Qt window.

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead.
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which will not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn will cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up. If you still want to try it in Windows, you could save some time and effort with the attached Windows build (click on venturous_1.3_windows_x86.7z link below to download the build).

Venturous 1.2

This release brings several new features, bug fixes, various performance improvements. Most important changes:

• Added detached Audacious interaction mode that avoids a frequent-Audacious-restarting-issue.
• Added Pause action and paused playback status.
• Fixed graceful quit.
• Improved preferences window GUI.
• Added ventool commands; improved ventool help message.

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead.
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which would not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn would cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up.
If you still want to try it in Windows, you could save some time and effort with the attached Windows build (click on venturous_1.2_windows_x86.7z button below to download the build).

Venturous 1.1.1

This release brings parsing Audacious stderr fix. The previous version could be very annoying and hardly usable when one or more Audacious plugins were missing.

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead.
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which would not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn would cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up.
If you still want to try it in Windows, you could save some time and effort with the attached Windows build (click on venturous_1.1.1_windows_x86.7z button below to download the build).

Venturous 1.1

This release does not bring any new features but only bug fixes and trivial improvements. Most prominent changes:

• Fixed several playback bugs.
• Improved error messages.
• Moved "enabled" column of custom action to front.
• Switched to Mousepad as default text editor (custom action).

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead.
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which would not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn would cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up.
If you still want to try it in Windows, you could save some time and effort with the attached Windows build (click on venturous_1.1_windows_x86.7z button below to download the build).

Venturous 1.0

After checking Venturous with various tools (cppcheck, valgrind, clang, clang static analyzer, gcc 4.9) the time has come to release version 1.0.
As always, several issues from the previous release are fixed and several features are implemented:

• Added showing / hiding external player window functionality.
• Significant preferences window improvements.
• Improved custom actions in MS Windows.
• Various small improvements.

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead.
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which would not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn would cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up.
If you still want to try it in Windows, you could save some time and effort with the attached Windows build (click on venturous_1.0_windows_x86.7z button below to download the build).

Venturous 0.9.4

Several issues from the previous release are fixed and several features are implemented:

• Implemented context menu custom actions.
• Implemented showing last -N components of path in history.
• Various small bug fixes.

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead.
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which would not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn would cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up.
If you still want to try it in Windows, you could save some time and effort with the attached Windows build (click on venturous_0.9.4_windows_x86.7z button below to download the build).

Venturous 0.9.2

Several issues from the previous release are fixed and several features are implemented:

• Added desktop notifications (optional).
• Manual adjusting current history entry is now possible.
• Various performance and memory usage improvements.
• Improved user manual and README.

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead.
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which would not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn would cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up.
If you still want to try it in Windows, you could save some time and effort with the attached Windows build (click on venturous_0.9.2_windows_x86.7z button below to download the build).

Venturous 0.9.1

Several issues from the previous release are fixed and several features are implemented:

• Added extended selection and additional actions to playlist tree.
• Playlist has got different background colors in edit and non-edit modes.
• Fixed playlist loosing focus issue.
• Several main window GUI improvements.
• Improved user manual and README.
• All sizes of venturous icon are now installed.

But some features are still missing.

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead.
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which would not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn would cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up.
If you still want to try it in Windows, you could save some time and effort with the attached Windows build (click on venturous_0.9.1_windows_x86.7z button below to download the build).

Venturous 0.9

Most of issues from the previous release are fixed:

• Added playback history and several accompanying playback actions.
• Fixed playlist tree performance issues.
• Improved quit safety.
• Fixed several GUI bugs.
• Amplified user manual.
• Improved source code structure.

But some features are still missing (see https://github.com/vedgy/venturous/issues?state=open).

Note: do NOT download source code archive, use git clone instead (see https://github.com/vedgy/venturous#how-to-build-and-install).
The git way is necessary because there are several submodules, which would not be initialized properly after downloading archive, which in turn would cause configuration script to fail.

Warning: Venturous does not work well in MS Windows unless audtool is manually built and set up.
If you still want to try it in Windows, you could save some time and effort with the attached Windows build (click on venturous_0.9_windows_x86.7z button below to download the build).