- [changed by @nriley] Fix a regression introduced in 1.2.7 which degraded audio quality for non-Pandora One users (#263)
- [changed by @nriley] Always display Shuffle (formerly QuickMix) at the top of the station list, more like the Pandora Web site
- [changed by @reedloden] Scrobble securely where possible
- [added by @nriley] Only display song/artist/album arrows in the playback screen on mouseover
- [added by @nriley] Allow double-clicking seeds or genres to create a station or add a seed
- [added by @nriley] Allow the likes/dislikes lists in the Edit Station window to be sorted (#266)
- [added by @nriley] Save the size and position of the Edit Station window
- [added by @nriley] Sort station genres and improve their display
- [added by @nriley] Show playback date/time with tooltips in history drawer
- [added by @nriley] Sign with Developer ID for Gatekeeper
- [fixed by @nriley] Don’t allow the drawer or toolbar to be used before you’re logged into Pandora (#170)
- [fixed by @nriley] Display the station drawer when asking the user to “Choose a station” (#170)
- [fixed by @nriley] Don’t crash when adding or removing seeds from a station
- [fixed by @nriley] Don’t show the add station sheet after dismissing another sheet
- [fixed by @nriley] Fix search results showing up in unexpected places
- [fixed by @nriley] Allow clicking on album art in the history drawer (#178)
- [fixed by @nriley] Improve history display (e.g. no longer scrolls to/selects the oldest song)
- [fixed by @nriley] Better handle deleting the current station
- [fixed by @nriley] Allow editing seeds in genre stations (#267)
- [fixed by @nriley] Immediately reflect changes to likes/dislikes in the Edit Station window
- [fixed by @nriley] Display a progress indicator rather than appearing to get “stuck” when changing stations
- [changed by @nriley] Dropped support for OS X 10.9 and earlier
- [changed by @winny-] Removed “Tired of Song” from default toolbar
- [added by @ericmason] Support for high quality, 192 Kbps MP3 streams
- [added by @obycode] Add distributed notification for state changes
- [added by @nriley] Only enable station menu items/buttons where appropriate (#240)
- [fixed by @jmjones88] Update to build with Xcode 7.3 and fix for OS X 10.11
- [fixed by @dwaite] Fix truncation at 1024 bytes of response, usually impacting the ability to log in (#244)
- [fixed by @reedloden] Update Sparkle and use SSL to retrieve Hermes’ appcast to address a Sparkle security vulnerability (#254)
- [fixed by @nriley] Make lyrics button work again (LyricWikia API change)
- [fixed by @nriley] Make Last.fm authorization work again (#242)
- [fixed by @nriley] Rename QuickMix to Shuffle to be consistent with current Pandora terminology (#201)
- [fixed by @nriley] Use monospaced numbers in OS X 10.11 for song progress
- [fixed by @nriley] Better handle errors when opening a connection
- [fixed by @nriley] Fix an error when handling media keys
- [changed by @winny-] Dropped support for OS X 10.8 and earlier
- [changed by @winny-] Use Apple’s JSON parser instead of SBJSON (#213)
- [fixed by @nriley] Station sort-by-date works again (#209)
- [fixed by @Aahung] Toolbar “Stations” button’s text now correctly reads as “Stations” (#224)
- [added by @Aahung] Playback progress bar replaced with iTunes-like progress bar (#223)
- [fixed by @nriley] Restore OS X 10.7 support
- [fixed by @nriley] General UI cleanup of the seed editor and main Hermes window
- [added by @Djspaceg, @nriley] Play/pause menubar icons
- [changed by @winny-] Stop asking for donations
- [fixed by @vadimpanin] Fix HTTPS proxy support (#193)
- [fixed by @cazierb] Fix issue with the Hermes menubar icon and the Yosemite dark theme (#198)
- [added by @winny-] Add menu item Window → Main Window ⌘1
- [changed by @winny-] Default to only show notifications for track change
- [fixed by @gbooker] Always re-grab media keys after opening other app that uses media keys (#184)
- [changed by @winny-] Default to Notification Center type notifications
- [fixed by @winny-] Small improvements to logging and the login UI
- [added by @winny-, @nriley] Document keyboard shortcuts in Documentation/KeyboardShortcuts.md
- [added by @winny-] Internal support to switch device partner logins. Currently uses Android for regular Pandora users, and Pandora One Desktop for Pandora One users.
- [fixed by @winny-] Set volume even if paused (#169).
- [fixed by @nriley, @winny-] Various UI improvements including sanity-checking login credentials and adding transparency to music note icon.
- [fixed by @nriley] Resolve issue with SPMediaKeyTap (media keys library) (#172).
- [added by @winny-] Show album art in non-Growl notifications on Mavericks.
- [fixed by @winny-] Issue where non-Growl notification clicked does not raise Hermes.
- [added by @winny-] Optional debug logging to
~/Library/Logs/Hermes/enabled at startup — hold down Option (⌥) and look for ladybug emoji (🐞) in menubar. - [fixed by @nriley, @winny-] Do not disable Like/Dislike in menu bar and Dock menu, instead simply show status using a checkmark — this way one may “undo” Like or Dislike from any menu item.
- [fixed] Always display the menubar on startup, thanks @nriley!
- [fixed] Several improvements to the menubar including reclaiming ⌘M for minimize, show liked status (#146), rename ambiguious menu items. Thanks @nriley!
- [added] Pause on Screen lock (Try Control-Shift-Power) (#154), thanks @Elemecca!
- [fixed] Spacebar always pauses even when drawer visible except when searching for a station (#150), thanks @winny-!
- [added] AppleScript variables to get current playback progress
playback positionand song lengthcurrent song duration(#157) Thanks @winny-! - [fixed] Preferences window now resizes to fit contents, shows current section title, cleaner layout. Thanks @nriley!
- [fixed] Do not show menubar when Hermes is a status bar item and expose functionality in status bar item dropdown menu (#134), thanks @nriley!
- [added] Show tooltips for now playing title, artist, and album. Thanks @nriley!
- [fixed] Only show display current song in Notification Center. Thanks @winny-!
- [fixed] Support PC media keys (#122). Thanks @winny-!
- [fixed] The “Help” dropdown now has functionality. (Reported by @nriley) Thanks @winny- & @nriley!
- [fixed] Show authors and contributors in the “About” window. Also show links from the previously mentioned “Help” dropdown menu. (Reported by @nriley) Thanks @winny- & @nriley!
This release entirely brought to you through the fantastic contributions of @nriley.
- [added] Various improvements to managing the drawer of songs/stations, thanks @nriley!
- [fixed] Don’t switch to the discrete graphics card (#144), thanks to @nriley
- [fixed] Actually fixed for 10.6 (retargeting AudioStreamer as well as SBJson), thanks again to @nriley
- [added] Pause playback on screensaver start, optionally resume on stop, thanks @winny-!
- [added] New shortcuts for increasing/decreasing volume, thanks @winny-!
- [added] The window title is now the station title, thanks @nriley!
- [added] The progress bar is no longer animated and fits the theme better, thanks @nriley!
- [added] The album art is now clickable to zoom it and get a nicer preview, thanks @nriley!
- [fixed] Now runs on 10.6 again, thanks @nriley!
- [fixed] No longer crashes when switching stations
- [fixed] Increase stability when running for a long time
- [fixed] Other various bug fixes
- [fixed] The nrating property for AppleScript has been fixed, thanks to @dlh
- [fixed] The state of buttons in both the drawer and main playback view are now better synchronized with each other, thanks to @dlh
- [fixed] Attempted to fix issues associated with a few assertions cropping up
- [added] Added the option of using a black/white status bar icon instead of one which has color, thanks to @bradmkjr
- [fixed] Be sure a blank process name doesn’t show up in the Activity Monitor
- [fixed] The ⌘H shortcut now works again
- [added] On 10.7+, use a thumbs-up emoji, thanks to @kirbylover4000
- [added] Option to have Hermes be purely a status-bar app (not in dock)
- [added] Thumbs up/down are now selectable buttons (which means they can be de-selected to remove feedback)
- [added] There is now an option to have Hermes always be on top of all other windows
- [added] Hermes automatically retries failed requests in addition to showing an error screen
- [fixed] Don’t show extra labels on the auth view by default, thanks to @kirbylover4000
- [fixed] Resolve a problem where the application could not be quit through applescript
- [fixed] Fix a few crashes related to loading lists of songs saved from the last session of Hermes
- [fixed] Song notifications are now only displayed if the song is actually playing
- [added] Changed how liked songs are displayed in notifications, thanks to @viveksjain
- [fixed] Do not drop the last few seconds of audio periodically
- [fixed] Resume in the middle of a song across application instances fixed
- [added] Ability to sort stations list by name or date of creation
- [added] Receive notifications through Growl or Mountain Lion’s new Notification Center
- [fixed] Reduced memory retained over time
- [fixed] Last.fm scrobbling time stamps are now correct again
- [fixed] Fix a duplication of a UI item in preferences
- [added] The internal timer to update the GUI is now paused when the application is not visible
- [added] Respect permissions on pandora stations for liking/disliking songs, renaming stations, and adding seeds to stations
- [added] Growl notifications now indicate whether a song is liked
- [fixed] The tooltip on the station/history toolbar item now correctly reflects the current state of the button
- [added] New UI for viewing song history in a drawer instead of a popup
- [added] Stations can now be created by genre as well as by seed
- [added] Button in history view to view the lyrics of a song
- [fixed] Disliking the current song in the history skips it and moves on
- [added] Add an option to not proxy audio streams because it’s not necessarily required by Pandora. Thanks to @osener for the suggestion.
- [fixed] Switching stations no longer plays two songs
- [added] Proxy configuration for just the Hermes application. Be aware that software updates will still go through the system proxy instead of the Hermes-configured proxy
- [added] If network connectivity is lost, and then regained, automatically resume playback if playback was previously happening.
- [fixed] Improve error handling in cases of intermittent network connectivity by providing a way to maintain listening to the last song as soon as the network connection is restored
- [fixed] An assertion no longer trips when re-authenticating with Pandora
- [misc ] massive internal cleanup across the code base
- [added] Preferences for tweaking how software update works
- [fixed] Toolbar items no longer randomly disable themselves
- [fixed] Fix a bug fetching songs from pandora with bad formats specified
- [added] When an error happens because the network is having trouble, there is now a button to retry the last request
- [fixed] Stations no longer randomly remove themselves when a new authentication token is fetched
- [added] Remember stations drawer width across application restarts
- [added] Keyboard shortcut to edit a station (⇧+⌘+d)
- [fixed] General UI tweaks for better quality and a better application
- [fixed] When deletion of a seed fails, have a better notification
- [fixed] Error handling (reauthentication and during authentication) working again
- [added] New UI for editing a station
- [fixed] Fix an issue where non-Pandora One users couldn’t play more than four songs without a crash happening, thanks to @viveksjain
- [added] Move to using Pandora’s JSON API instead of the XMLRPC one in hopes of being more stable and requiring fewer updates
- [added] After creating a station, immediately begin playback of the station
- [added] Preference option for high/medium/low quality audio
- [fixed] Always make sure that toolbar items are enabled when a new song plays
- [fixed] Ensure the station drawer opens when there’s no saved station
- [added] Preference option to not send liked tracks as “loved” to last.fm, thanks to @tresni
- [fixed] Updated to Pandora’s v34 protocol
- [fixed]
track.unlovenow properly sent to last.fm - [fixed] Fixed a memory leak with the dock menu opening/closing
- [added] Fine-grained control for which Growl notifications are received, configurable through Hermes’ preferences, or also through Growl’s
- [added] Tell last.fm when a track starts playing via the
track.updateNowPlayingAPI method, thanks to @tresni - [added] Tell last.fm about liked/disliked tracks via the
track.loveandtrack.unlovemethods, thanks to @ginader for the idea - [added] Add a preference for only scrobbling liked tracks, thanks to @ginader for the idea.
- [added] Dock menu now displays the playing song, if there is one, thanks to @viveksjain
- [added] Preserve stations drawer state across launches, thanks to @viveksjain
- [fixed] Fixed scrobbling in some situations where the saved session key was wrong, thanks to @tresni
- [fixed] Growl notifications now globally coalesce, instead of on a song-level, thanks to @viveksjain
- [added] Keyboard shortcut to play selected station, bring Hermes to the front as selected application, and to show history thanks to @Sheyne
- [fixed] Pandora wants all requests over https now
- [fixed] AppleScript “tired of song” now actually performs the right action, thanks to @tresni
- [fixed] Creating stations clears the search field from the previous search
- [fixed] Updated Growl to 1.3, thanks to @terinjokes
- [fixed] Parsing error messages works again to correctly refetch a token with Pandora
- [fixed] Don’t use “https” on most API requests to Pandora
- [fixed] Use smaller request IDs to appease Pandora
- [added] Dock icon menu now has options for play/pause/like/dislike
- [added] AppleScript for getting/setting the station playing
- [added] AppleScript for getting the current song and attributes about it
- [fixed] Volume control works again
- [added]
tired of songcommand in AppleScript - [added]
current volumeread/write attribute in AppleScript - [added]
unmutecommand in AppleScript - [added]
playback stateread/write attribute in AppleScript - [fixed] A few memory leaks have been resolved
- [fixed] Use Pandora’s
syncAPI for real
- [added] Broadcast new songs with NSDistributedNotificationCenter so programs
can listen in if they’d like. The notification name is
hermes.songand the object sending the notification ishermes - [added] The stations drawer is now manually collapsible and preserves state when the window loses focus
- [added] AppleScript support. See the README for more information
- [fixed] Don’t use
@throw, it doesn’t play nicely with ARC. Fixes a crash on startup if first time running.
- [fixed] Logging out and then back in works much better now
- [added] Support OSX 10.6
- [fixed] Fix an intermittent crash occuring upon resume.
- [fixed] Pandora prefers SSL connections
- [fixed] Enable the logout menu item
- [fixed] Pandora protocol version bump
- [fixed] Scrobbler correctly gets session key from user’s keychain
- [added] Growl notifications occur when songs play (can be turned off)
- [added] Growl and media keys turned on by default
- [added] History view for seeing past songs and liking/disliking past songs
- [added] On application restore, don’t start playing music
- [fixed] Updated to Pandora’s v32 API (no changes yet)
- [added] Much better error handling/reporting
- [added] App now slides between windows instead of appearing
- [fixed] Much more developer-friendly interface design
- [fixed] Addressed some issues with receiving a station list from Pandora
- [changed] Supporting 10.7+ now
- [fixed] Correctly escape characters when submitting to last.fm
- [fixed] Removed some memory leaks in FMEngine
- [fixed] Removed memory leaks in Scrobbler
- [fixed] Removed multiple release bug when deleting a station
- [fixed] Smoother updating of progress on the time lapse bar
- [fixed] Updated to new Pandora API version
- [added] Don’t log debug messages in the Release build target
- [added] Better resuming of interrupted streams
- [added] Updated for Xcode 4
- [fixed] Updated the JSON framework to support OSX 10.5+
- [added] Scrobbling via last.fm
- [added] Binding of media keys on apple keyboards
- [added] Preferences pane for tweaking configuration
- [fixed] Pandora crypto keys updated to newer versions
- [fixed] Pandora protocol now uses v30 (no API changes, however)
- Initial release