Xfce PulseAudio Plugin 0.3.4 Released

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Xfce PulseAudio Plugin 0.3.4 is now available. With each new release, the plugin becomes more refined and better suited for Xfce users. The latest release adds support for the MPRIS Playlists specification and improves support for Spotify and other media players.

What’s New?

New Feature: MPRIS Playlists Support

This is a basic implementation of the MediaPlayer2.Playlists specification.
The 5 most recently played playlists are displayed (if the player supports them). Admittedly, I have not found a player that seems to implement the ordering portion of this specification.

New Feature: Experimental libwnck Support

libwnck is a window management library. This feature adds the “Raise” method for media players that do not support it, allowing the user to display the application window after clicking the menu item in the plugin.
Spotify for Linux is the only media player I have found that does not implement this method. This was an important issue for me to resolve since this is the media player I use most of the time.

General

Unexpected error messages sent via DBUS are now handled gracefully. The previous release of Pithos (1.1.2) displayed a Python error when doing DBUS queries before crashing the plugin.
Numerous memory leaks were patched.

Translation Updates

Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai