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Parole Media Player 1.0.2 Released

  • April 5, 2019
  • Sean Davis

A new (more) stable version of the Xfce media player is now available! Parole 1.0.2 fixes several bugs and improves packaged releases for distributions.

What’s New?

Bug fixes. So… many… fixes!

Build Fixes

  • Fixed compiler error -Wcast-function-type with GCC 8
  • Fixed Appstream validation by removing <em></em> tags from translations (Xfce #14260)
  • Resolved g_type_class_add_private warnings (Xfce #15014)

Playback

  • Fixed play button sensitivity items are added to playlist (Xfce #13724, LP #1705243)
  • Improved support for missing Gstreamer plugin installers (Xfce #14529)

Plugins Manager

  • Fixed crash when opening files after disabling plugins (LP #1698540)
  • Fixed disabling plugins enabled by distributions (e.g. MPRIS2 in Xubuntu)
  • Fixed display of active/inactive plugins when reopening the Plugins Manager

Translation Updates

Albanian, Arabic, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian

Downloads

Parole Media Player 1.0.2 will likely be included in Xubuntu 19.04 (we’ve uploaded it!). Other distributions will likely add it soon. If you can’t wait or want to install from source, download it below.

Source tarball (md5sha1sha256)

Parole Media Player 1.0.0 Released

  • March 4, 2018
  • Sean Davis

It’s here, it’s finally here! The first 1.0 release of Parole Media Player has finally arrived. This release greatly improves the user experience for users without hardware-accelerated video and includes several fixes.

What’s New?

Parole 0.9.x Developments

If you’ve been following along with the stable release channel, you have a lot of updates to catch up on. Here’s a quick recap. For everybody else, skip to the next header.

  • Parole 0.9.0 introduced a new mini mode, boosted X11 playback, and made the central logo clickable. When your playlist is complete, the “play” logo changes to a “replay” logo.
  • Parole 0.9.1 improved support for remote files and live stream playback. Older code was stripped away to make Parole even leaner and faster.
  • Parole 0.9.2 introduced a keyboard shortcuts helper (Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), fixed numerous bugs, and included a huge code cleanup and refactor.

Parole 1.0.0: New Feature, Automatic Video Playback Output

  • We’ve finally resolved the long-standing “Could not initialise Xv output” error (Xfce #11950) that has plagued a number of our users, both in virtual machines and on real hardware.
  • In the past, we were delighted when we were able to implement the Clutter backend to solve this issue, but that API proved to be unstable and difficult to maintain between releases.
  • Now, we are using the “autoimagesink” for our newly defaulted “Automatic” video output option. This sink provides the best available sink (according to GStreamer) for the available environment, and should produce great results no matter the setup.

Parole 1.0.0: Bug Fixes

  • Fixed 32-bit crashes when using the MPRIS2 plugin (LP: #1374887)
  • Fixed crash on “Clear History” button press (LP: #1214514)
  • Fixed appdata validation (Xfce #13632)
  • Fixed full debug builds and resolved implicit-fallthrough build warning
  • Replaced stock icon by freedesktop.org compliant option (Xfce #13738)

Parole 1.0.0: Translations

Albanian, Arabic, Asturian, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian

Downloads

Parole Media Player 1.0.0 is included in Xubuntu 18.04. Check it out this week when you test out the Beta!

sudo apt update
sudo apt install parole

The latest version of Parole Media Player can always be downloaded from the Xfce archives. Grab version 1.0.0 from the below link.

https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/1.0/parole-1.0.0.tar.bz2

  • SHA-256: 6666b335aeb690fb527f77b62c322baf34834b593659fdcd21d21ed3f1e14010
  • SHA-1: ed56ab0ab34db6a5e0924a9da6bf2ee91233da8a
  • MD5: d00d3ca571900826bf5e1f6986e42992

Development Release: Parole 0.9.2

  • June 4, 2017
  • Sean Davis
With a huge code cleanup effort, complete plugin development documentation, and numerous bug fixes, Parole Media Player 0.9.2 paves the way for future development.  What’s New? General Homepage updated to docs.xfce.org Xfce URLs were switched to HTTPS New Features A new keyboard shortcuts helper was added to the Help menu New and keybindings for previous … Continue reading Development Release: Parole 0.9.2

Parole Media Player 0.9.0 Released

  • February 11, 2017
  • Sean Davis
Development for the Xfce media player is back on!  Well over a year since the last release, Parole 0.9.0 brings a fresh set of features and fixes.  What’s New? New “mini mode”, activated from the right-click menu. New play and replay icons in the player content area. Clicking on these will play or replay your … Continue reading Parole Media Player 0.9.0 Released

Xubuntu 16.04 LTS “Xenial Xerus” Released

  • April 21, 2016
  • Sean Davis
Here we are again, folks. After six more months of development (two years since the last LTS), we’ve got another fantastic release — Xubuntu 16.04 LTS “Xenial Xerus”!  I wanted to find a nice squirrel quote, but it seems most folks have a horrific dislike for the little critters. — Myself, after looking up squirrel … Continue reading Xubuntu 16.04 LTS “Xenial Xerus” Released

Xubuntu 15.10 Available

  • October 18, 2015
  • Sean Davis
A new release of Xubuntu is just around the corner!  The release candidate for Xubuntu 15.10 “Wily Werewolf” is now available, with the final release expected less than a week from now on October 22.  What’s New? This list highlights several new features and applications, but is by no means exhaustive.  This post will be … Continue reading Xubuntu 15.10 Available

Parole Media Player 0.8.1 Released

  • October 17, 2015
  • Sean Davis
It’s been nearly 8 months since the first release in Parole’s 0.8 stable series. Yesterday, Parole Media Player 0.8.1 was released in time to be included in Xubuntu 15.10.  This release includes several bug fixes and makes for another great release. What’s New? New Feature-ish New hidden setting to persistently hide the menubar been sessions. This … Continue reading Parole Media Player 0.8.1 Released

Parole 0.4.0 is out!

  • January 12, 2013
  • Jérôme Guelfucci

A new awesome release of the Parole media player for Xfce is out and ships all the hard work of Sean Davis and Simon Steinbeiss.

Sean wrote an extensive description of this new release on his blog, with tons of screenshots. As stated there, do not hesitate to give them feedback on this new release and to file any issue you may have on the Xfce Bugzilla.

Here is a screenshot of the new very nice main view while playing an audio file:

Parole 0.4.0

Congratulations to Sean and Simon for this excellent work!