Spofity users: You will need to click "Authorise" in the settings before Spotify features will work again.
Changes:
- Added option to restore last window position on open.
- [AUR] Fixed Spotify authorisation not working.
Enabling a new backend: Phazor
Phazor is a new experimental audio backend for Tauon. Theres no exact roadmap for it but I'm now enabling it for testing. With this update you should now be able to switch between the two backends ("GStreamer" and "Phazor") in Tauon's audio settings tab.
For the most part there aren't many differences with Phazor and GStreamer, except Phazor likely has more bugs! Though there are currently a couple of other small differences that may lead you to preferring one over the other:
Network seeking
If you use Airsonic or koel as a network source, best stick with GStreamer as it works properly with seeking from an HTTP source. However if you use PLEX or other server with transcoding enabled then you might find the seeking experience better in Phazor as it allowing seeking a partial download, where sometimes GStreamer does not.
Volume scale
Phazor uses a volume scale that gives greater control over lower volumes. It also performs a smooth slide rather than setting the volume abruptly as the GStreamer backend does.
MP3 gapless playback
If you have a gapless MP3 album intended for gapless playback, this is more likely to work in Phazor. Its likely this issue will be fixed in GStreamer eventually, but for now Phazor gives you the option of having tomorrows technology today.
Other reasons not to use Phazor
- If you often listen to less free codecs like MP4/AAC, WMA etc, you're better off using GStreamer since seeking is slow with these codecs in Phazor.
- If you listen to internet radios, you might be better off with the GStreamer based backend (for now), since the Phazor backend currently doesn't parse metadata in some streams.