AudioBox.fm 0.7 is live

Excellent job on your upgrade....... This is a great application

AudioBox.fm 0.7 is live

Hello people,
as the title says finally AudioBox.fm reached version 0.7.

This is an important milestone and a complex big update, hopefully everything will run smoothly; should you find any bugs please let us know, either via the usual support@audiobox.fm or through Twitter.

In the next few days we will make some adjustments to enhance the service and add more features.
We are keeping an eye on application errors so they can be resolved in a promptly manner.

This is the full changelog, quite lengthy but a must read.

Billing: PayPal is no more. Users with an active PayPal subscription can upgrade to the new CC system and be immediately granted $1 in credits
Billing: switching plans will prorate the paid amount for the previous plan
Billing: due to the new payment system rules EU customers will see VAT applied and be given the chance to provide a VAT ID
Billing: API is now available on paid plans only, developers can ask for a special ‘developer’ account
Android App: updated to support new API [Fabio Tunno, Valerio Chiodino]
Android App: now supports Offline playlist sync [Fabio Tunno]
Android App: now recognizes synced tracks and plays them instead of live stream to save bandwidth on the go [Fabio Tunno]
Android App: now supports shuffle and repeat [Fabio Tunno]
Android App: now can quit completely [Valerio Chiodino]
Android App: buffer now continues on player when paused [Fabio Tunno]
Android App: audiobox.fm account is now integrated in Android native accounts management [Valerio Chiodino]
Android App: now works in both landscape and portrait orientations [Valerio Chiodino]
Android App: new player skin [Valerio Chiodino]
Android App: better navigation (similarly to iOS app) [Valerio Chiodino]
iPhone App: minor update to support new API [Claudio Poli]
Cloud Web Player: you can now find concerts tickets through our partner Gigjunkie [Claudio Poli, Valerio Chiodino]
Cloud Web Player: performance completely revisited, giant playlists should not have any more problems when loading [Valerio Chiodino, Fabio Tunno]
Cloud Web Player: play should now respect text search results [Fabio Tunno]
Cloud Web Player/API: new push engine on certain actions, for example creating a playlist through API will make it appear in real time in Player [Claudio Poli, Fabio Tunno]
Cloud Web Player: applied server-side Safari (Mac/Win) workarounds to make it work with HTML 5 again until Apple fixes streaming bugs [Claudio Poli]
Cloud Web Player: Safari on Windows works again in HTML 5 mode if QuickTime is installed, fallbacks to Flash otherwise [Claudio Poli, Fabio Tunno]
Cloud Web Player: play count column is now visible and sortable [Claudio Poli, Fabio Tunno]
Cloud Web Player: local and remote scrobbling updates the play count in real time [Claudio Poli]
Cloud Web Player: browser caching on playlist change to instantly render unchanged playlists [Claudio Poli]
Cloud Web Player: YouTube channel now can paginate found videos by scrolling [Fabio Tunno]
Cloud Web Player: YouTube channel does not apply ‘racy’ YouTube filter anymore [Claudio Poli]
Cloud Web Player/Site: real time visual notifications with history support [Claudio Poli, Fabio Tunno, Valerio Chiodino]
Cloud Web Player: year column now returns 0 instead of a blank string if not set [Claudio Poli]
Cloud Web Player: dragging tracks between playlists is not visually locked anymore [Claudio Poli, Fabio Tunno]
Cloud Web Player: genre ‘show all’ filter is now faster [Claudio Poli]
Cloud Web Player: sorting is now faster on all columns [Fabio Tunno]
Cloud Web Player: playlist track’s count is now visible and updated in real time [Claudio Poli, Valerio Chiodino, Fabio Tunno]
Cloud Web Player: default sorting properly respects disc number, always defaults to 1 since it’s not available in id3 tags [Claudio Poli]
Cloud Web Player: new playlist ‘offline’, drag your files here to make application that supports offline syncing to download tracks for streaming without internet connection [Claudio Poli]
iPhone Web Player: pulled due to quirky QuickTime mechanics, users are advised to use the iPhone app [Claudio Poli]
Manager: there is no distinction anymore between a custom playlist and a mobile one [Claudio Poli]
Manager: now includes and groups up all utilities to manage everything [Claudio Poli]
Manager: new upload queue supporting different technologies rather then rely on Flash [Claudio Poli, Valerio Chiodino]
Manager: Maximum Portability is now live, runtime preferences allowing you to upload files without them being converted; playback depends on browser/platform [Claudio Poli]
AudioMashes: New Foursquare support [Claudio Poli]
AudioMashes: better error handling, completely revisited [Claudio Poli]
AudioMashes: Dropbox sync is now a lot faster [Claudio Poli]
AudioMashes: Twitter messages now includes a hashtag #audioboxfm rather than referencing @audioboxfm [Claudio Poli]
API: stream_url in track listings now respects the protocol (http/https) used during the request [Claudio Poli]
API: new Player API lets you control an instance of the Cloud Web Player remotely [Claudio Poli, Fabio Tunno]
API: new endpoint /api/player/nowplaying returns text with artist – track title of the now playing track [Claudio Poli]
API: /api/tracks won’t return duplicate MD5 hashes anymore [Claudio Poli]
API: /api/track/:token now returns 204 if the track is still processing upload [Claudio Poli]
API: XML tags naming changed from dasherized to underscored, example: is now [Claudio Poli]
API: tracks-showing calls now supports a ‘?short=true’ parameter to allow shorter documents to ease traffic and performance on mobiles [Claudio Poli]
API: /api/user, moved time_zone attribute from profile to user section in response [Claudio Poli]
API: standardized and more robust error messages/handling [Claudio Poli]
API: fixed an issue where XML was being returned when creating a Playlist using JSON [Claudio Poli]
API: new data is being returned on some calls, check documentation for details [Claudio Poli]
API: removed DELETE /api/tracks/:token endpoint, to destroy a track move it into the trash and then empty trash [Claudio Poli]
API: changed the way album cover resources are being returned, they are now s, m, l (small, medium, large) [Claudio Poli]
API: Tracks#copy_to, Tracks#remove actions has been moved to Playlist#add_tracks and Playlist#remove_tracks [Claudio Poli]
API: Tracks#untrash endpoint is gone, use Playlist#add_tracks and Playlist#remove_tracks instead [Claudio Poli]
API: permanently deleted tracks (recycle bin emptied) immediately are not available to any action [Claudio Poli]
API: all JSON calls should now be gzipped properly [Claudio Poli]
API: Track objects now returns the actual file_name instead of the original file name [Claudio Poli]
Site: graphics, layout and stylesheets rebuilt from the ground up [Valerio Chiodino, Claudio Poli]
Site: new javascripts optimizations for performance [Fabio Tunno, Valerio Chiodino]
Site: overall better use of resources for performance improvements [Claudio Poli]
Site: public profiles have been pulled from the site [Claudio Poli]