If I had to summarize the development since 0.6, I would say it's just like Rhythmbox, only better From stuff like Ogg support for internet radio, ReplayGain support, and automatic playlists based on rating, what we've done is just generally try to flesh everything out. We are also showcasing GStreamer's cool features like metadata reading.

However, we are set for some major changes in 0.9 (working to 1.0).

File monitoring is already done, we have work going on for a SQLite backend, there's code to implement an Icecast source, and with software like HAL, the (still experimental) iPod support should start shaping up. And with luck we'll get metadata writing via GStreamer done

Here are the changes since 0.7.2:

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.8.0
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* Fix playlist saving [Colin Walters]
* Memory leak fixes [Benjamin Otte]
* Ignore .Trash directories [Jonathan Blandford]
* Add audio/x-mod to known music types [Colin Walters]
* Several drag and drop fixes [Colin Walters]
* Fix usage of GtkFileSelection [Colin Walters]
* Revert back to using "Music Player" as Name [Colin Walters]
* Add code to guard against some GConf errors [Colin Walters]
* Display error on missing help files [Colin Walters]
* Some station properties dialog UI tweaks [Colin Walters]
* Remove quality column for now, it doesn't work [Colin Walters]
* Require GStreamer 0.8 [Colin Walters]
* Handle invalid UTF-8 when parsing playlists [Colin Walters]
* Fixes to bonobo interface [Colin Walters]
* Quote names with spaces for allmusic.com URIs [Colin Walters]
* Disable GTK+ sounds just for Rhythmbox [Miguel Coca]
* Better error message on missing plugin [Colin Walters]
* Fix GConf schema default for selected source [Colin Walters]
* A really major crasher bug fixed [Colin Walters]
* Allow player to release audio sink when GStreamer supports it [Benjamin O
tte]
* Fix several crashers in multiple selection dialog [Colin Walters]