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I plan to add this, and also an optional overlay (for cd case or something). What I'm wondering is if it should be a global setting, or a per-widget setting (option for the Cover widget for example) or both.

I personally don't like default cover-art, mainly because the default picture is often ugly.

Line 200: Custom
This one is not very important, it's only used in the advanced tag editing window, which is a bit neglected.
it's for non-standard atoms in .m4a files used by some itunes properties and maybe others. they contains 3 sub-fields: description, application(com.apple.iTunes) and the value.
I should rename it to "Application-specific" or something.

Hard limiter:
I don't really know more than you, it's a property of a gstreamer plugin : http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-rglimiter.html
this wikipedia page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limiting seems to say it's equivalent to "clipping" which seems to be translated by "Übersteuern" in the corresponding wikipedia page (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_%28Signalverarbeitung%29).

If you deleted files manually, it's probably simply because the file you're trying to play doesn't exist anymore.
If it's not that, it's possible that gstreamer encountered an error while opening the sound output, maybe a problem sharing it with other apps.

Yes, it's not the first time someone asked this, I think some players do that.
I plan to do something more generic (let the user define a command to be executed after a given event) but it might be some time before I do that.
So I'll make a quick plugin to do that in the meantime. I'm in the middle of too many things right now, but remind me in a few weeks if I haven't done it by then.

Cause I think most of us don't spent the time to manually rate a couple of thousand songs, do we?

I rate them while listening to them, with the traytip, you could also configure keyboard shortcuts.

missing strings in export plugin :
thanks, I've just fixed it

The "Unknown field" from "NowPlaying"?
I fixed it too (the fact that the name of some fields are not found will be fixed later)

"Titlebar" Plugin :
you need the libgnome2-wnck-perl or perl-Gnome2-Wnck package

225 Display stop/next actions #where?
in the notify plugin

340 Insensitive title-artist (left-aligned)
that's the name of one of the included layouts for titlebar
Insensitive means it doesn't react to mouse clicks (the mouse click pass through it)

What's the difference between "Lock on artist" and "Lock Artist"?
there is no difference, I should use the same in both place. Not sure which is better.

What's the difference between "Track" and "Song"?
I usually use Song instead of Track because I find prettier and clearer (though I guess "song" usually implies lyrics)
I use Track in gmb to refer to the "track number".

1045 skip count average# it counts the number a song is skipped, right? Where?
this one is a bit hidden :)
take an FPane (artist/album/... list) right-click on it, select options->cloud-mode, right click again, it's one of the
"font size depends on" option.

In v1.1.4, the page list in the layout (pages=artist|album|genre|date|label|folder|filesys|lastplay|added|modif|rating) is the default, and thus ignored after the first use.
Because users can now add/remove tabs by right-clicking on the tabs. (yet another hidden right-click menu)
Note that there is currently a bug, if there is only one page when creating the window, the tab is hidden, making it impossible to add more. I think I'll add a show/hide tabs option in the right-click menu.

by setting the subgroup to "None", which sadly is currently sorted in the middle of the real subgroups.

You can set it in the right-click menu of the column headers.
yes, it's easy to miss it :) Maybe I could add a button widget for that, I though there was one.

it should be, for what widget ? songlist/songtree/lyrics/webcontext
note that the setting has been reset when upgrading to v1.1.2+
by the way, I'll make it the default for songlist/songtree in playlist mode

Do You think it's possible to fix the freecovers problem?

it seems freecovers.net's api doesn't work currently : http://forums.freecovers.net/index.php?showtopic=12824

thanks, I'll take a look

125: Auto-increment track numbers
it's in the mass-tagging dialog, the tooltip for the button that allows you to complete all missing track number by incrementing the the track numbers of previous songs, or starting from 1

144: Can't create sink '{sink}' #what's the sink??
the sink is the term used by gstreamer when talking about output (here about audio output)

562: Reference point : #where is it?
titlebar plugin, to choose which window corner is used to position the overlay

815: argument {n} :
it's used in the new command preview of the nowplaying plugin, to show how the command line is broke into arguments

891: half-life
it's used in the weighted random configuration, to configure how fast the probability is dropping when the (for example) last played date gets closer to now

998: only show entries with at least n songs #maybe a '%' missing in front of n? Can't find it..
no the % is not missing :) it's the tooltip at the bottom of artist/album/... lists (FPanes) the buttons at the bottom can be shown/hidden in the right-click menu
thinking about it, maybe replacing the n with the current number would be clearer. Suggestions for a better tooltip are welcome...

1076: use standard strftime variables
it's a new settings in the Misc. tab, the tooltip of the date format configuration
"man strftime" to get a description, I don't know if it has a better name, maybe "standard unix date/time format" ?

1095 & 1096 x/y offset
titlebar plugin how distance in horizontal/vertical pixels to put the overlay, relative to the reference point

btw, I'm very open to suggestions to improve the wording/spelling anywhere in gmb

thanks staubi.
I think it must be because you are still using v1.0.1, v1.0.2 works fine for me with google images.
And yes searching using freecovers.net doesn't work, they must have changed something.

I won't make it the default

I ran gmb through the terminal but there was no output at all when I tried to do a google search through the browser.

Strange, are you sure you are using the picture-finding plugin ? Have you tried searching with something else than google image ?
You can also run gmusicbrowser with the -debug option, be warned that it prints a lot of things on the terminal.