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Release 1.0

Nuvola Player 1.0 was released on Deceber 23, 2011. The core was rewritten to support multiple cloud music services (four services shipped), user interface offers three modes of visibility of menu bar and tool bar, support for SOCK 4/5 proxy servers was added via around TSOCKS library, new configuration options were appended to preferences dialog and Crash dialog was introduced. Full change log.
Nuvola Player 1.0.1 was released on January 4, 2012. It contains patches from Debian Mentors review process, updated translations and a few bug fixes. Full change log.
Nuvola Player 1.0.2 was released on February 13, 2012. It contains bug fixes and updated translations. Full change log.
Nuvola Player 1.0.3 was released on March 17, 2012. It contains bug fixes and updated translations. Full change log.
Nuvola Player 1.0.4 was released on March 31, 2012. It contains bug fixes, new services (Rdio, Pandora) and updated translations. Full change log.
Nuvola Player 1.0.5 was released on April 4, 2012. It contains modified workaround for bug in WebKitGTK 1.8. More details.

What's new

New Name and Improved Icon

Application was renamed to Nuvola Player and the original icon created by Alexander King was modified by Arturo Torres Sánchez to match Faenza icon theme.

Support for Multiple Services

Previous series, Google Music Frame 0.x, contained only support for Google Music built in to core of the application. The core has been rewritten to supports multiple services and all service-specific data are stored in separate files outside the core of the application and are loaded in run time. This approach allows to add new service without need to restart or recompile the application.

Menu Bar and Tool Bar

User interface offers both newly created menu bar and reworked tool bar and three modes of their visibility. New actions were added: playback controls, back/forward buttons for navigation and zoom controls.

Support for SOCKS proxy servers

Support for SOCKS 4/5 proxy servers can be enabled in dialog Preferences → tab Network and requires TSOCKS library.

More Configuration Options

Preferences dialog contains more configuration options: turn off notifications, visibility of tray icon, close button behavior and simple settings for user scripts.

Crash Dialog

Crash Dialog is shown if previous session was not closed corectly and offers troubleshooting options and link to the Flash Troubleshooting page.

Under the Hood

Rewritten configuration backend.
Tweaked dock manager and Unity quick list integration to fix lags.
Introduced JavaScript API for service integration.

Backward Incompatibility

Filesystem Paths

The application has been renamed to Nuvola Player (previous name was Google Music Frame, GMF). The filesystem paths related to Nuvola Player have been also changed.

Binary name, package name: nuvolaplayer
Configuration folder path: ~/.config/nuvolaplayer
Data folder: ~/.local/share/nuvolaplayer
Userscripts folder: ~/.local/share/nuvolaplayer/userscripts

Configuration

Configuration from previous versions is not used.

Known Issues

Flash Plugin may cause crash of Nuvola Player. Please check if you have up-to-date version of the Flash Player plugin. There is also Flash troubleshooting page.
Soup library 2.36.0 used for network connection shipped with Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot has issues with HTTPS proxy support and may cause crash. This bug was fixed in version 2.36.1, already packaged in Debian Unstable repository.
Log in to Grooveshark via Google account doesn't work. Use your Grooveshark username/e-mail and password to log in to Grooveshark. If you account has not assigned any password, click on a link "Reset password" and follow instructions sent to your e-mail address.
Ubuntu Sound indicator included in Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot has wrongly aligned icons. You can install package from Ubuntu Precise Pangolin fixing this issue.
Nuvola Player may show Crash dialog if previsous session was not closed before user logged out and login manager did not notified Nuvola Player to quit properly.