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This is a minor release to fix configuration and compilation issues only:

* Improved configure.sh script with regards to KDE2 detection.
* Improved install.sh with regards to apollo-client.
* compiles with gcc 3 - thanks to Hannes Mehnert of Gentoo Linux

This is a minor release to fix configuration and compilation issues only:

* Improved configure.sh script with regards to QTDIR settings and qmake detection.
* Some fixes to sourcecode to make it compile on some distributions.

* Play First: Midclick on the the songs you want to hear and they will be played in that order. Especially useful at parties when people request songs.
* Continue Here: After the current song, or all the Play First songs, continue playing from this song in the playlist.
* xmms remote control protocol: you can use any program that can control xmms to control apollo, for example xmmsctrl, xmms-shell and xmms-kde. A small program called apollo-client is bundled to handle this.
* id3: read id3 version 1 and 2 tags, as supported by id3lib.
* loop playlist
* simple random mode: chooses a song at random, doesn't remember which ones have been played.
* Search playlist for songs; Ctrl+F.
* New client for adding songs to apollo called apollo-client. ... read more

The long overdue 1.2 version is finally here. Both source and binary distributions are available from:

http://download.apolloplayer.org

1.2
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* Added minimized mode.
* The 'Add dir' dialog works more intuitively now. You only need to highlight
a directory and not actually enter it.
* Playlist format changed; A flexible XML format is now being used. The old
playlist format (modified m3u) is no longer supported. Pure m3u playlists,
however, can still be loaded and saved.
* Added integrated browser for easy browsing of playlists and directories.
* Player messages are no longer sent to stdout/stderr, but to the GUI.
* mpg123 buffer now works, but needs custom compilation due to buggy mpg123.
* mpg123 patch included to fix some bugs with buffer handling.
* Bugfixes.

This is a quick, unsupported but official release. It has not been announced other than here. It is identical to version 1.1 except for some changes to the source code which makes it independent of STL. This has been done so that people without the proper version of STL can conveniently compile Apollo. The functionality is exactly the same as in 1.1 and there are no visible changes except for the 1.1.1 version number. Users are recommended to use 1.1 (if possible) as 1.1.1 may have memory leaks. No effort has been made to check whether there exists memory leaks. It is estimated, though, that if there are leaks present, they are insignificant and remain constant throughout the lifetime of the execution. It should therefore remain usable to users without a proper STL version installed. It has not been decided whether future versions of Apollo will require STL or not.

Apollo 1.1 is released! Apollo is a sound player providing you with what you really need; No more, no less. It has a user-friendly, compact, playlist-oriented user interface running under the X Window System using Qt for its GUI. Apollo currently plays MP3 files by acting as a front-end to mpg123.

Various source and binary packages available at:

http://download.apolloplayer.org

Apollo 1.0 is released! Various source and binary
packages available at:

http://download.apolloplayer.org

Apollo is a sound player providing you with
what you really need; No more, no less. It has
a user-friendly, compact, playlist-oriented
user interface running under the X Window
System using Qt for its GUI. Only Linux has
been tested, but it may very well work on other unices as well. Apollo currently plays MP3
files by acting as a front-end to mpg123.

An early Apollo version is now in CVS. It is fairly usable, but not ready for an official release yet. If you wish to try it out, make sure you have mpg123 and Qt 2.x.

Also, a screen shot is now up on the web page: http://apolloplayer.sourceforge.net.