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With version 2.04a, Paloma now has built-in support for a Turtle Beach AudioTron device, that handy dedicated mp3 appliance for your home stereo system.

Version 2.03a adds a great new feature: any number of your favorite jukebox programs (like xmms, PyTone, Tunez, or whatever) may be configured so that you can launch them from a playlist window simply by pressing a function key. Paloma will write the playlist to a .m3u file (or copy the song files to a directory tree, if necessary) and launch your jukebox program of choice to play it.

This latest release of Paloma wraps up most of the outstanding known bugs from the 2.0 series and makes Paloma 2.0 stable and ready for adoption by the general public.

Additional features will continue to be developed as described in the TODO document. Please continue to submit bug reports and feature requests!

The first candidate release of the new codebase is now ready for users to try it out! Go ahead, pull it down, install it--and send me your feedback!

The new version of Paloma is coming along nicely. It is about 90% functional now after the first four weeks of coding. Paloma 2.0 should be ready for public consumption well before the end of May.

The curious are welcome to investigate the Python code in the CVS tree; but be warned that database patches performed by a CVS branch may invalidate your existing database--you should only use a temporary database for running code in development.

Paloma is currently undergoing a significant recoding effort, to make it once again usable after a long period of stagnation in which several of its dependent libraries have changed their interfaces, making it difficult to compile.

I expect the new version of Paloma to be available within a few weeks. Stay tuned!