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VLC is one of the most well-known media players out there, and it’s been almost 4 years since they’ve released a major new version. VLC 0.9.0 is on the horizon, and it packs in 2 years of development… so you can expect some great things. There’s just one gotcha: Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 are no longer supported operating systems.
So what’s new in this release? One of the biggest things would have to be the revamped interface seen in the screenshot above. The preferences have been drastically overhauled, and are now broken up into “simple” and advanced settings. That way new users aren’t overwhelmed by the number of things that can be configured.
Beauty is only skin deep though, and that’s why there’s much more than the flashy new interface that’s worth a look:
- Improved playlist support: Shoutcast TV listings, Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support (in supported countries), album art, and more
- Better tag support
- Supports most types of subtitles
- New and enhanced filters
- Improved mouse gestures
- Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
- and more…
If you’re looking for the Last.FM support you’ll have to dig through the options (Tools -> Preferences). You’ll need to be in the “advanced” view by filling in the All bubble located in the lower-left corner. Then navigate to Interface -> Control Interfaces -> Audioscrobbler. From there you can enter in your Last.FM username and password. Then click on the Control Interfaces section, and check the “Submission of played songs to Last.FM” box. VLC will share your listening habits with Last.FM from there on out.
You can grab a pre-release version of VLC 0.9.0 (Windows installer), or you can wait for it to reach final form. From what I can tell this is shaping up to be a nice release.
Any idea on when the release could be?
They definitely have one more release, and from the sounds of it that could be a release candidate. I would say within the next month or two it should be out.
I just hope they fix the “Always on Top” bug that has been present on every version after 0.8.6b.
Regarding Last.fm submissions: actually, in the 0.9.0-test2 version you can find the preference in the “Simple” view too. Have a look under “Audio”, at the bottom of the window (for now I still had to confirm the “Submission of played songs to Last.FM” box in advanced mode, though)
Great, will continue to use this for video, but would be really surprised if it convinced me to leave itunes.
The last.fm support was one of the things that as stopping me from using vlc as a audio player. Seems 0.9 would be a more complete media player.
I saw a lot of people saying that same thing in their forum. Looks like the Last.FM addition is going to help the software become a better all-around media player.
any idea when its going to release coz this version looks really really good
Nope, there’s no word on a release date yet.
This post explains how to enable it
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I think, VLC 0.9.0 is usedful.