We realize we've been somewhat quiet lately, but that's only because we've let Tomahawk v0.2.3 do the talking for us while we've been hard at work on it's succecessor. Luckily, folks have started to hear what it's saying and are responding in kind. Including some of our favorites:

"Tomahawk is different. It’s an open source, cross-platform, socially aware music player that quite simply, is awesome." - Mashable

"It’s time to listen to music in a new way that might just blow your mind." - Evolver.fm

"... an amazing media player that aggregates music from almost anywhere." - ownCloud

For those of you that speak German, here are a couple for you (translations courtesy of Google Translate):

"...the most innovative thing I've seen in ages." - Neumusik.com

"Tomahawk on the other hand delivers, fascinates and overwhelms." - Max Zelass

Tomahawk v0.2.3 was a good ship that served us well, but it's time to make way for a new ship... and I dare say we packed more goodness into this release than we had even planned. The team of Tomahawk contributors continues to increase, which in turn increases not only the productivity but also the ideas. It really is an awesome part of being an open-source project.

As you can see from our new tutorial video, and the release notes below, it's been a busy 2 months - and we think we've turning the corner on becoming really usable and accessible for the average music lover (hello 1-click install content resolvers!).

Tomahawk 0.3 Beta

New Features!

• Resolver Gallery with 1-click install (and community ratings)
• Album and Artist pages - discography, bios, tracks, etc.
• Charts - iTunes, Billboard, Hype Machine, We Are Hunted, Spotify and RDIO song, artist and album charts
• Footnotes - easy to access contextual information on any selected track
• Global Search (across all available sources)
• Drag/drop Spotify, Rdio and iTunes links to the queue, play controls or playlist
• Lazy Lists - add the complete album, artist catalog, artist top songs, or just your local songs from that artist just by dropping a single song
• User Radio (for user's the send their collection info to EchoNest)
• Live-updating XSPFs - import a xspf playlist, and if the source updates so will your playlist in Tomahawk (I'm looking at you Last.fm Just Played lists)

New Resolvers!

With our new Resolver Gallery, not only is it easy to install resolvers - it's easy for contributors to write their own and add them. Check out some of the new resolvers that have recently been created.

• YouTube
• Grooveshark (for GrooveShark Anywhere subscribers only)
• Dilandau
• Ex.fm
• ...and more!

More Tomahawklet Supported Sites!

• Turntable.fm
• Shazam
• Pandora
• Grooveshark
• Pitchfork
• Rhapsody (& Napster)
• Deezer
• 8tracks
• ... and more!

Improvements!

• Convert resolvers to use asynchronous calls to avoid blocking Tomahawk's UI, greatly increasing responsiveness of Tomahawk while resolving.
• Fixed no playlists overlay not disappearing when playlists were added.
• Moved the song queue to the bottom of the sidebar.
• Added new job status view in the bottom of the source list that displays current jobs such as resolving, parsing playlists, and loading from database.
• Station queue updates as soon as parameters are added or changed.
• Artist names are now clickable on album pages (header) and charts.
• Added MPRIS 2.1 support.
• Bring Tomahawk window to the front when clicking a Tomahawk link.
• Fixed crash in source list when initially syncing with remote sources.
• Open temporary artist, album, and search playlists as temporary items in the sidebar.
• Fixed sorting of playlists and items in the artist view.
• Allow dragging and dropping albums and artists to playlists.
• Show recently added playlists in dashboard rather than recently opened playlists.
• Fixed seek slider and give it some smooth animation between ticks.
• Fixed Twitter issue where it would repeatedly send DMs to friends.
• The Collection tree-views can now be filtered.
• Fixed crash when pressing enter in an empty playlist.
• Support multi-folder selection and scanning.
• Fixed handling of special characters in tomahawk:// links.
• Improve sidebar performance by caching pixmaps and shrinking them.
• Send updated playlists to peers when tracks are moved/copied.
• Remove splitter handles in sidebar.
• Fixed Tomahawk preventing system shutdown / logout.
• Ignore leading 'The' when sorting artists.
• Fixed crash when syncing playlists with peers.
• Show headphone icon in source item to allow users to listen along; paint headphones red on a source if the user is listening along to it.
• Fixed re-resolving when resolvers or sources go off- / online.
• Correctly sort recently played tracks on the Dashboard.
• Show a Lion full-screen toggle button if running on Lion.
• Display list of who is currently listening along to you.
• Fixed bug where going offline then online would not re-connect to many peers.
• Added support for auto-updating live xspf playlists.
• Don't show an age of 41 for tracks that have no age information.
• Show config UI for resolvers that have them as so on as you add the resolver.
• Filter out duplicates from station previews and upcoming tracks.
• Fixed adding social actions such as loved tracks from other sources.
• Added a drop shadow to cover images, and put CD placeholder in jewel case.
• Added shuffle and repeat support to tree view.
• Draw a speaker next to the currently playing playlist.
• Refresh station previews whenever a filter is changed.
• Don't start playing if a tomahawk:// link was clicked while Tomahawk is paused.
• ... and more!

Phew... that was a mouthful. While we feel pretty damn good about this major release, don't worry... we're still going. After all, we are only at version 0.3. ;)