ADDED   NEWS
Index: NEWS
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--- NEWS
+++ NEWS
@@ -0,0 +1,289 @@
+
+2.1.4 (2015-03-25)
+- Fixed Internet-Radio extraction.
+- Added basic TuneIn channel.
+- Removed Dirble and MusicGoal channels.
+- Fix desktop and packaging infos according to Debian guidelines.
+- Switch to fpm/xml for package building.
+- Remove bundled requests library.
+- Update icon and fix path to application logo.
+- Minor documentation updates.
+
+2.1.3 (2014-08-15)
+- New plugin for Dirble.com introduced.
+- Channel tabs can now be rearranged from notebook top to left side.
+- Live365 was fixed again.
+- Xiph cache service was fixed, and duplicates are now filtered out.
+- Category map storage is now handled by backend instead of channels.
+- Shorter Youtube homepage URLs are used, HTTP headers compacted.
+
+2.1.2 (2014-07-31)
+- Listing from the renewed Radionomy Shoutcast has been fixed.
+- Live365 was disabled.
+- New iTunes Radio stations channel (via RoliSoft Radio Playlist API).
+- New channel module "iCast.io" as seen in VLC.
+- SurfMusic.de is now available in a localized English display.
+- Shorter Youtube URLs are now used, Wadsworth constant available.
+- MyOggRadio.org API interaction fixed.
+- Fixed cache search to copy results before overwriting category.
+- Slim new search dialog offers scanning all channels or just current.
+- More online music service links have been added.
+- Better post-extraction cleanup.
+
+2.1.1 (2014-05-28)
+- Added SurfMusik and Youtube plugin channels. Google/DMOZ removed.
+- Jamendo viewing now utilizes the v3.0 JSON API for genres/tracks
+  and uses cover images instead of favicons.
+- A new logo was introduced.
+- The reworked configuration dialog now provides editable lists for
+  player and recording apps configuration, a more descriptive options
+  pane, a better overview for enabled and available plugins (with fresh
+  meta comment blocks), and dropdowns instead of text-fields are used.
+- Internet-Radio parsing was fixed, a workaround for absent titles
+  added. Shoutcast also alternates between DOM and Regex fetching.
+- For Xiph browsing a custom caching API was introduced.
+- Status bar / download progress display was fixed.
+- A history plugin was added. And extension hooks{} support started.
+- Some more Python3 fixes applied. Documentation was adapted.
+
+2.1.0 (2014-01-05)
+- support for running on Python3 or Python2,
+  as well as Gtk3 (PyGI) and Gtk2 (PyGtk with Python2) bindings
+- fixed Shoutcast, DMOZ, Live365
+- while Jamendo now lists radios only
+- removal of basic.ch and tv channels
+- include requests+urllib3 in favour of urllib+urllib2
+- some manual pages have been updated
+- drop PSON and only use plain json module henceforth
+- new bundle/ directory, but pyquery/lxml dropped
+- colorized debugging output
+- uninitialized channels are no longer attached as tabs
+- absent liststore references have finally been fixed
+
+2.0.9
+- sys.path patch (less py module conflicts) from Stefan Talpalaru
+- fixed main_quit signal slot, so window size saving works
+- added [new] button in streamedit window
+- prepared remaining print syntax for python3 (still needs 2to3 though)
+- fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655596 array error
+- transitioned glade file to gtk.Builder, just a few things broke
+- made configuration window resizable
+- locked station list columns, no longer resortable (associatation mismatch)
+- applied Vincents fixed for Windows action.run and Shoutcast PQ parsing
+- live365 parsing restored by patch from Abhisek Sanyal
+- fix Pixbuf typecasing in mygtk liststore appending
+
+2.0.8
+- configuration files use prettified json
+- fixed double quotation for %pls players and /local/file handling
+- (unused) channel .shutdown function introduced (late saving)
+- external plugin: basic file browser, no ID3 editing yet
+- allow interpolating of %genre and other fields, streamripper wrapper
+- fixed pyQuery parsing for latest shoutcast change
+  (strangely the regular expressions were still working)
+
+2.0.7
+- json cache files are now stored .gz compressed
+- xiph channel .format() call fixed into .mime_fmt()
+- simplified __init__ and attributes of main window object
+- .play() is now a per-channel function
+- global_key now accepts multiple keys, updates gtk view
+- new musicgoal plugin with radios and podcasts
+- silenced channel initialization errors
+- double clicking tabs is functioning now (-> channel service homepage)
+- shoutcast finally became a real channel plugin
+- processing.py pseudo module removed
+
+2.0.6
+- mirrored Station>Extensions menu into stream context menu
+- creation of .nobackup files in cache/ and icons/ directories
+- global_key plugin allows radio switching via keyboard shortcut
+- compound channel plugin is new, mixes different source channels
+- new external plugin: podspider
+- more documentation restructuring
+- feature plugins` options are now listed in configuration dialog
+- current_channel_gtk()
+- added basic package dependencies for .deb archives,
+  packaged-in lxml/ removed (lacked etree.so anyway)
+- TV plugin for shoutcast video listings
+- simpler overriding of stream column titles is now possible
+- cleaner .src.tgz package, contrib/ files have been externalized
+- minor fix for quicksearch function
+
+2.0.5
+- display logic now can extract homepage URLs from station titles
+- automated google search for missing station homepages
+- kept .m3u files are reused for playing (faster)
+- registration code for (stations) extension submenu
+- timer plugin for programming broadcast play/recordings, uses kronos
+- heuristic update of bookmarks when reloading station lists
+- general thread() wrapper function implemented, for worker pool
+- simple mygtk wrapper for adding menu entries
+- MyOggRadio plugin is now complete, can upload individual favourites
+- links plugin, which lists other radio directories in bookmarks tab
+- CLI mode implemented
+- two PHP wrapper scripts to generate YP.Shoutcast for Streamtuner1
+- GUI startup progress window added
+- one GtkWarning message fixed
+- the Shoutcast channel was plugin-ed out, but remains in the UI file
+- multiple additions to and restructuring of the help files, manpage
+
+2.0.4
+- PyQuery parsing for InternetRadio.org.uk channel, and adapted PQ
+  usage for shoutcast
+- utility function http.fix_url extended, common string parsing
+  functions strip_tags, mime_fmt are now in channels.GenericChannel
+- http module reworked, visual feedback now for GET and AJAX methods,
+  and CookieJar was enabled
+- channel/tab order can now be configured (instead of tab dragging)
+- fixed PyQuery wrapper module, packaged lxml modules in (evades
+  extra support for Windows port, native modules will be used on Linux)
+- more Gtk.Widget mini help popups in the dialog windows
+
+2.0.3
+- new channel plugin: MyOggRadio (an open source directory)
+- also Internet-Radio.org.uk channel, but only regex parsing for now
+- the quick search box is now in the toolbar, while an all-scanning
+  search feature has been implemented in the former dialog
+- Shoutcast.com broke regex parsing, the homepage links are gone
+- Category updates are now performed in a thread too
+- interna: GenericChannel.display() is now .prepare()
+- live365 category parsing fixed
+- Live365 and Xiph are no longer built-in tabs, can be fully disabled
+- fixed disabling search, config, streamedit windows (gtk close event)
+- and a few help files were added
+
+2.0.2
+- more checks for initializing channel plugins
+- gtkrc theming support extended: apply and combobox in config dialog
+- PyQuery as new alternative parsing mechanism, as option for shoutcast
+- category tree gets loaded on first display of empty channels
+- windows port tested, new external project: python+gtk installer bundle
+- removal of .pyc bytecode files from generic .deb and .rpm packages
+- distribution includes gtkrc theme "MountainDew"
+- removed most debug print statements, introduced a config option for it
+
+2.0.1
+- new channel plugin: jamendo (just a simple browser for now)
+- new channel plugin: basicch (all new, because old scraper nonfunc)
+- new channel plugin: punkcast (just a very basic listing)
+- fixed shoutcast channel parsing
+- new elaborate http.ajax method using braindamaged urllib2
+- extremely cool plugin configuration scheme implented w/ GUI controls
+- plugins (except code or glade built-in) now deactivatable individually
+- preliminary support for application themes
+- support for per-channel .play() method
+- reenabled audioformat= in play calls
+- channeltab doubleclick doesn't work despite hours of fruitless trying
+- add "format" to stream edit dialog
+- new helper methods: mygtk.bg(), config.get()
+
+2.0.0
+- search function implemented, highlights results in current category list
+- right click context menu added
+- station data inspection/editor added
+- auto_save_appstate implemented
+- station delete implemented
+- clean up of internal application interfaces: new self.channel() instead
+  of self.c[self.cc] kludges all around (all traces rm), and new self.row(),
+  and some auxiliary windows now have handling code in separate classes
+- now real favicons for directory providers are displayed
+- removed directory service homepage button (still in menu), donated icon
+  to stations instead; double-click on channel tab still resultless
+- load_favicon hook (for currently playing station) added
+- added channel switching to menu, and submenu view merged into edit
+- fixed initialisation of open channel tab (previously only default
+  shoutcast was populated by .first_show method)
+- made a new logo for 2.0.0 release
+- fixed shoutcast category loading
+
+
+1.9.9-2
+- bookmark handling fixed
+- pson/json decoding still flaky
+
+1.9.9
+- fixed record action
+- shoutcast parser redone twice
+- rebuilding of TreeView list more robust noew, always in gobject.idle()
+- favicon downloading methods implemented, display enabled per default
+- live365 is buggy, but usable
+- bookmarks still broken
+
+1.9.8
+- save-as dialog implemented (export to .m3u, .pls or .xspf)
+- download progress bar added
+- last selected category and stream entry is remembered in all channel
+  tabs now (though the implementation is spread between a separate but
+  unused state.json and mygtk.app_state() which stores notext indexes)
+- menu edit/copy implemented: saves current stream URL into clipboard
+- fixed XDG_CONFIG_HOME use
+- code parts have been extracted into separate modules
+- the Google stations plugin has been ported from streamtuner1
+- packaging of .deb and .rpm archives
+
+1.9.7
+- configuration window added
+- threading support enabled (uses python 2.6 processing if avail)
+- more generic window/state saving
+- update_categories() added in menu
+- "generic" class for channels has been separated from shoutcast
+- new channel module "live365" (without login support)
+- bookmarks module has comments now
+- new defaults for audio/ogg and other media types
+- pseudo-json is now a fallback if python 2.6 module isn't there
+- preparations for saner url extraction in action. class
+- better doc for mygtk.columns()
+- (temp.) faster initial startup by not .load()ing default category
+
+1.9.6
+- added xiph.org example implementation, incomplete
+- bookmark module basics done
+- rowmap defined manually again, instead of in mygtk.
+
+1.9.5
+- basic menu added, toolbar style switching
+- glade XML file is searched in binary dir
+- static classes move to bottom
+- forgotten/deleted streams feature added 
+- display() filter
+
+1.9.4
+- category change
+- app_state
+- mygtk.column_view() and .column_data() have been merged into
+  more general mygtk.columns() - more elaborate, only depends on
+  datamap, instead of individual sublists, pixbuf support added
+- shoutcast.rowtypes cellmap titles colsizes cellrendr colattrs gone
+
+1.9.3
+- thread for http GET (doesn't work)
+- app_restore added
+- action.record, browse, homepage stream / channel, .reload streams
+- .status() shortuct
+- dict2list removed (now in .columns_view)
+- treeviewcolumns sizes
+- simplified form of datamap, less dicts, more lists, reshuffled
+- http. wrapper class
+- action. with actual os.system() call
+
+1.9.2
+- action.play(), .m3u
+- pseudojson instead of pickle in Config class
+- more doc on top
+- icons in column_view() for category trees
+- fix for [format] regex in shoutcast
+- mime defaults for action. module in conf
+. .pls and .m3u methods in action.
+
+1.9.1
+- first real shoutcast server scans
+- ??
+- ..
+- cache stream lists + category names
+
+1.9.0
+- first GUI implementation with standard glade
+- at least shoutcast category names were read
+
+ 

Index: README
==================================================================
--- README
+++ README
@@ -45,288 +45,5 @@
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-
-history
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-
-2.1.3 (2014-08-15)
-- New plugin for Dirble.com introduced.
-- Channel tabs can now be rearranged from notebook top to left side.
-- Live365 was fixed again.
-- Xiph cache service was fixed, and duplicates are now filtered out.
-- Category map storage is now handled by backend instead of channels.
-- Shorter Youtube homepage URLs are used, HTTP headers compacted.
-
-
-2.1.2 (2014-07-31)
-- Listing from the renewed Radionomy Shoutcast has been fixed.
-- Live365 was disabled.
-- New iTunes Radio stations channel (via RoliSoft Radio Playlist API).
-- New channel module "iCast.io" as seen in VLC.
-- SurfMusic.de is now available in a localized English display.
-- Shorter Youtube URLs are now used, Wadsworth constant available.
-- MyOggRadio.org API interaction fixed.
-- Fixed cache search to copy results before overwriting category.
-- Slim new search dialog offers scanning all channels or just current.
-- More online music service links have been added.
-- Better post-extraction cleanup.
-
-2.1.1 (2014-05-28)
-- Added SurfMusik and Youtube plugin channels. Google/DMOZ removed.
-- Jamendo viewing now utilizes the v3.0 JSON API for genres/tracks
-  and uses cover images instead of favicons.
-- A new logo was introduced.
-- The reworked configuration dialog now provides editable lists for
-  player and recording apps configuration, a more descriptive options
-  pane, a better overview for enabled and available plugins (with fresh
-  meta comment blocks), and dropdowns instead of text-fields are used.
-- Internet-Radio parsing was fixed, a workaround for absent titles
-  added. Shoutcast also alternates between DOM and Regex fetching.
-- For Xiph browsing a custom caching API was introduced.
-- Status bar / download progress display was fixed.
-- A history plugin was added. And extension hooks{} support started.
-- Some more Python3 fixes applied. Documentation was adapted.
-
-2.1.0 (2014-01-05)
-- support for running on Python3 or Python2,
-  as well as Gtk3 (PyGI) and Gtk2 (PyGtk with Python2) bindings
-- fixed Shoutcast, DMOZ, Live365
-- while Jamendo now lists radios only
-- removal of basic.ch and tv channels
-- include requests+urllib3 in favour of urllib+urllib2
-- some manual pages have been updated
-- drop PSON and only use plain json module henceforth
-- new bundle/ directory, but pyquery/lxml dropped
-- colorized debugging output
-- uninitialized channels are no longer attached as tabs
-- absent liststore references have finally been fixed
-
-2.0.9
-- sys.path patch (less py module conflicts) from Stefan Talpalaru
-- fixed main_quit signal slot, so window size saving works
-- added [new] button in streamedit window
-- prepared remaining print syntax for python3 (still needs 2to3 though)
-- fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655596 array error
-- transitioned glade file to gtk.Builder, just a few things broke
-- made configuration window resizable
-- locked station list columns, no longer resortable (associatation mismatch)
-- applied Vincents fixed for Windows action.run and Shoutcast PQ parsing
-- live365 parsing restored by patch from Abhisek Sanyal
-- fix Pixbuf typecasing in mygtk liststore appending
-
-2.0.8
-- configuration files use prettified json
-- fixed double quotation for %pls players and /local/file handling
-- (unused) channel .shutdown function introduced (late saving)
-- external plugin: basic file browser, no ID3 editing yet
-- allow interpolating of %genre and other fields, streamripper wrapper
-- fixed pyQuery parsing for latest shoutcast change
-  (strangely the regular expressions were still working)
-
-2.0.7
-- json cache files are now stored .gz compressed
-- xiph channel .format() call fixed into .mime_fmt()
-- simplified __init__ and attributes of main window object
-- .play() is now a per-channel function
-- global_key now accepts multiple keys, updates gtk view
-- new musicgoal plugin with radios and podcasts
-- silenced channel initialization errors
-- double clicking tabs is functioning now (-> channel service homepage)
-- shoutcast finally became a real channel plugin
-- processing.py pseudo module removed
-
-2.0.6
-- mirrored Station>Extensions menu into stream context menu
-- creation of .nobackup files in cache/ and icons/ directories
-- global_key plugin allows radio switching via keyboard shortcut
-- compound channel plugin is new, mixes different source channels
-- new external plugin: podspider
-- more documentation restructuring
-- feature plugins` options are now listed in configuration dialog
-- current_channel_gtk()
-- added basic package dependencies for .deb archives,
-  packaged-in lxml/ removed (lacked etree.so anyway)
-- TV plugin for shoutcast video listings
-- simpler overriding of stream column titles is now possible
-- cleaner .src.tgz package, contrib/ files have been externalized
-- minor fix for quicksearch function
-
-2.0.5
-- display logic now can extract homepage URLs from station titles
-- automated google search for missing station homepages
-- kept .m3u files are reused for playing (faster)
-- registration code for (stations) extension submenu
-- timer plugin for programming broadcast play/recordings, uses kronos
-- heuristic update of bookmarks when reloading station lists
-- general thread() wrapper function implemented, for worker pool
-- simple mygtk wrapper for adding menu entries
-- MyOggRadio plugin is now complete, can upload individual favourites
-- links plugin, which lists other radio directories in bookmarks tab
-- CLI mode implemented
-- two PHP wrapper scripts to generate YP.Shoutcast for Streamtuner1
-- GUI startup progress window added
-- one GtkWarning message fixed
-- the Shoutcast channel was plugin-ed out, but remains in the UI file
-- multiple additions to and restructuring of the help files, manpage
-
-2.0.4
-- PyQuery parsing for InternetRadio.org.uk channel, and adapted PQ
-  usage for shoutcast
-- utility function http.fix_url extended, common string parsing
-  functions strip_tags, mime_fmt are now in channels.GenericChannel
-- http module reworked, visual feedback now for GET and AJAX methods,
-  and CookieJar was enabled
-- channel/tab order can now be configured (instead of tab dragging)
-- fixed PyQuery wrapper module, packaged lxml modules in (evades
-  extra support for Windows port, native modules will be used on Linux)
-- more Gtk.Widget mini help popups in the dialog windows
-
-2.0.3
-- new channel plugin: MyOggRadio (an open source directory)
-- also Internet-Radio.org.uk channel, but only regex parsing for now
-- the quick search box is now in the toolbar, while an all-scanning
-  search feature has been implemented in the former dialog
-- Shoutcast.com broke regex parsing, the homepage links are gone
-- Category updates are now performed in a thread too
-- interna: GenericChannel.display() is now .prepare()
-- live365 category parsing fixed
-- Live365 and Xiph are no longer built-in tabs, can be fully disabled
-- fixed disabling search, config, streamedit windows (gtk close event)
-- and a few help files were added
-
-2.0.2
-- more checks for initializing channel plugins
-- gtkrc theming support extended: apply and combobox in config dialog
-- PyQuery as new alternative parsing mechanism, as option for shoutcast
-- category tree gets loaded on first display of empty channels
-- windows port tested, new external project: python+gtk installer bundle
-- removal of .pyc bytecode files from generic .deb and .rpm packages
-- distribution includes gtkrc theme "MountainDew"
-- removed most debug print statements, introduced a config option for it
-
-2.0.1
-- new channel plugin: jamendo (just a simple browser for now)
-- new channel plugin: basicch (all new, because old scraper nonfunc)
-- new channel plugin: punkcast (just a very basic listing)
-- fixed shoutcast channel parsing
-- new elaborate http.ajax method using braindamaged urllib2
-- extremely cool plugin configuration scheme implented w/ GUI controls
-- plugins (except code or glade built-in) now deactivatable individually
-- preliminary support for application themes
-- support for per-channel .play() method
-- reenabled audioformat= in play calls
-- channeltab doubleclick doesn't work despite hours of fruitless trying
-- add "format" to stream edit dialog
-- new helper methods: mygtk.bg(), config.get()
-
-2.0.0
-- search function implemented, highlights results in current category list
-- right click context menu added
-- station data inspection/editor added
-- auto_save_appstate implemented
-- station delete implemented
-- clean up of internal application interfaces: new self.channel() instead
-  of self.c[self.cc] kludges all around (all traces rm), and new self.row(),
-  and some auxiliary windows now have handling code in separate classes
-- now real favicons for directory providers are displayed
-- removed directory service homepage button (still in menu), donated icon
-  to stations instead; double-click on channel tab still resultless
-- load_favicon hook (for currently playing station) added
-- added channel switching to menu, and submenu view merged into edit
-- fixed initialisation of open channel tab (previously only default
-  shoutcast was populated by .first_show method)
-- made a new logo for 2.0.0 release
-- fixed shoutcast category loading
-
-
-1.9.9-2
-- bookmark handling fixed
-- pson/json decoding still flaky
-
-1.9.9
-- fixed record action
-- shoutcast parser redone twice
-- rebuilding of TreeView list more robust noew, always in gobject.idle()
-- favicon downloading methods implemented, display enabled per default
-- live365 is buggy, but usable
-- bookmarks still broken
-
-1.9.8
-- save-as dialog implemented (export to .m3u, .pls or .xspf)
-- download progress bar added
-- last selected category and stream entry is remembered in all channel
-  tabs now (though the implementation is spread between a separate but
-  unused state.json and mygtk.app_state() which stores notext indexes)
-- menu edit/copy implemented: saves current stream URL into clipboard
-- fixed XDG_CONFIG_HOME use
-- code parts have been extracted into separate modules
-- the Google stations plugin has been ported from streamtuner1
-- packaging of .deb and .rpm archives
-
-1.9.7
-- configuration window added
-- threading support enabled (uses python 2.6 processing if avail)
-- more generic window/state saving
-- update_categories() added in menu
-- "generic" class for channels has been separated from shoutcast
-- new channel module "live365" (without login support)
-- bookmarks module has comments now
-- new defaults for audio/ogg and other media types
-- pseudo-json is now a fallback if python 2.6 module isn't there
-- preparations for saner url extraction in action. class
-- better doc for mygtk.columns()
-- (temp.) faster initial startup by not .load()ing default category
-
-1.9.6
-- added xiph.org example implementation, incomplete
-- bookmark module basics done
-- rowmap defined manually again, instead of in mygtk.
-
-1.9.5
-- basic menu added, toolbar style switching
-- glade XML file is searched in binary dir
-- static classes move to bottom
-- forgotten/deleted streams feature added 
-- display() filter
-
-1.9.4
-- category change
-- app_state
-- mygtk.column_view() and .column_data() have been merged into
-  more general mygtk.columns() - more elaborate, only depends on
-  datamap, instead of individual sublists, pixbuf support added
-- shoutcast.rowtypes cellmap titles colsizes cellrendr colattrs gone
-
-1.9.3
-- thread for http GET (doesn't work)
-- app_restore added
-- action.record, browse, homepage stream / channel, .reload streams
-- .status() shortuct
-- dict2list removed (now in .columns_view)
-- treeviewcolumns sizes
-- simplified form of datamap, less dicts, more lists, reshuffled
-- http. wrapper class
-- action. with actual os.system() call
-
-1.9.2
-- action.play(), .m3u
-- pseudojson instead of pickle in Config class
-- more doc on top
-- icons in column_view() for category trees
-- fix for [format] regex in shoutcast
-- mime defaults for action. module in conf
-. .pls and .m3u methods in action.
-
-1.9.1
-- first real shoutcast server scans
-- ??
-- ..
-- cache stream lists + category names
-
-1.9.0
-- first GUI implementation with standard glade
-- at least shoutcast category names were read
-
-