Quod Libet 3.9 Highlights

(Quod Libet is a audio library tagger, manager, and player for Linux / Windows / macOS)

For a detailed changelog see https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#release-3-9-0


New plugin by @dvillevalois for only showing the menu bar when pressing Alt. https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/pull/2263.


QL will now show you a stack trace on the next start in case it crashed. https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/commit/64ee54fea156694844a720f9b11d78e2e95d64ad

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Support for the “!=” operator in queries, by @ThirdDeclension https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/commit/3083bf07835076e2742f7393fc9db0c5ca322d4b

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We now run our tests on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 on each commit, thanks to travis-ci and docker https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/pull/2269

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New “~#channels” tag exposing the channel count https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/commit/720b339c306655bbb04970bbee4546647a6a0abb

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“~#encoding” now includes the lame encoding quality for MP3 files https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/commit/1ea3eb3c45d5d9f31f6ebb1a54d9f8bf66e69d3e

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Next QL will include a plugin for changing the user interface language https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/pull/2154


Since 3.8.1 our MPD plugin also works with the M.A.L.P. Android client https://github.com/gateship-one/malp

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New bpm tap plugin, by @dvillevalois https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/pull/2264


The waveform seekbar now looks better in HiDPI mode https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/pull/2261

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Next Quod Libet will send errors and crashes to https://sentry.io . Thanks @getsentry

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Panes in the paned browser can now be resized. https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/pull/2301


Some grouping for our evergrowing list of plugins. https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/pull/2218


Native file chooser dialogs on Windows. https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/pull/2324

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New checkbox for stopping after the queue runs out: https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/pull/2340

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Making things ready for a new release. Some changes the queue UI

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