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1 | * Changes up to version 3.1 |
2 | ||
3 | ** Server | |
4 | ||
5 | The 'gap' directive will no longer work. It could be restored if there | |
6 | is real demand. | |
7 | ||
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8 | *** Random Track Choice |
9 | ||
10 | This has been completely rewritten to support new features: | |
11 | - tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer | |
12 | eligible for random choice | |
36a1a882 RK |
13 | - there is a new 'weight' track preference allowing for non-uniform |
14 | track selection. See disorder(1) for details. | |
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15 | - there is a new configuration item replay_min defining the minimum |
16 | time before a played track can be picked at random. The default is | |
17 | 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour). | |
18 | ||
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19 | ** Disobedience |
20 | ||
21 | There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and | |
22 | remove users or modify their settings. | |
23 | ||
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24 | * Changes up to version 3.0.2 |
25 | ||
26 | Builds --without-server should work again. | |
27 | ||
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28 | The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value syntax it |
29 | will accept. | |
30 | ||
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31 | Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available. |
32 | ||
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33 | * Changes up to version 3.0.1 |
34 | ||
35 | Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better. | |
36 | ||
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37 | * Changes up to version 3.0 |
38 | ||
39 | Important! See README.upgrades when upgrading. | |
f0feb22e | 40 | |
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41 | ** Platforms And Installation |
42 | ||
43 | Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash script | |
44 | in scripts/setup which will automate the setup after 'make install'. | |
45 | ||
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46 | ** Server |
47 | ||
48 | Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file. | |
49 | ||
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50 | The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only |
51 | additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file. | |
86be0c30 | 52 | |
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53 | The default inter-track gap is now 0s. |
54 | ||
ad884aa5 | 55 | How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration |
56 | command. This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with | |
57 | ALSA as well as OSS. | |
58 | ||
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59 | A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4). |
60 | ||
d84bf422 | 61 | ** Web Interface |
62 | ||
63 | The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows | |
b64c2805 | 64 | online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to |
65 | manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it | |
66 | if you don't like the value it figures out). | |
d84bf422 | 67 | |
b18d2a34 | 68 | It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface. |
ad884aa5 | 69 | |
70 | The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been | |
71 | tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and | |
72 | Opera 9. | |
73 | ||
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74 | ** Disobedience |
75 | ||
76 | A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue | |
413799e3 | 77 | while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all |
fb009628 | 78 | tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks. |
8137fb3d | 79 | |
92afc09e | 80 | * Changes up to version 2.0 |
460b9539 | 81 | |
82 | ** General | |
83 | ||
460b9539 | 84 | Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1) |
85 | or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience. | |
86 | ||
87 | The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search | |
88 | documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is | |
89 | possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and | |
90 | prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)). | |
91 | ||
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92 | Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows |
93 | the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the | |
413799e3 | 94 | latter case). |
813070ec | 95 | |
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96 | ** Disobedience |
97 | ||
98 | There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. | |
99 | Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. | |
100 | ||
101 | ** Web Interface | |
102 | ||
103 | The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From | |
104 | here they can be played or their preferences changed. | |
105 | ||
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106 | Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover |
107 | for the full name. | |
108 | ||
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109 | ** Network Play |
110 | ||
111 | DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on | |
112 | multiple client machines. See README.streams for details. | |
113 | ||
460b9539 | 114 | ** Server |
115 | ||
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116 | Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help |
117 | installations with large collections and/or slow platforms. | |
460b9539 | 118 | |
119 | The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone. | |
120 | Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next. | |
121 | 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable | |
122 | playing and then scratch the current track. | |
123 | ||
124 | The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there | |
125 | is now built into the server, where it can be done much more | |
126 | efficiently. | |
127 | ||
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128 | 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified. |
129 | ||
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130 | A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a |
131 | crash when random play was enabled has been fixed. | |
132 | ||
63e28749 | 133 | A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random |
134 | tracks kept on the queue to be controlled. | |
135 | ||
75db8354 | 136 | There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV |
137 | and FLAC. The example config file uses it. | |
ce6c36be | 138 | |
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139 | Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server |
140 | (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration. | |
141 | ||
460b9539 | 142 | ** disorderfm |
143 | ||
144 | There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed | |
145 | for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories. | |
146 | It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional | |
147 | details. | |
148 | ||
149 | ** Build And Configuration | |
150 | ||
151 | You can control which components are built with new --with options. See | |
152 | README. | |
153 | ||
154 | options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced | |
155 | with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are | |
156 | now optional. | |
157 | ||
63e28749 | 158 | ** Thanks |
159 | ||
160 | Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all | |
161 | contributed in some way to this release. | |
162 | ||
460b9539 | 163 | * Changes up to version 1.5.1 |
164 | ||
165 | ** Web Interface | |
166 | ||
167 | Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks. | |
168 | ||
169 | * Changes up to version 1.5 | |
170 | ||
171 | ** Web Interface | |
172 | ||
173 | Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial | |
174 | 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the | |
175 | amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded. | |
176 | ||
177 | ** Client | |
178 | ||
179 | Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line | |
180 | client. | |
181 | ||
182 | ** Server | |
183 | ||
184 | New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options | |
185 | allow independent control of process priorities. | |
186 | ||
187 | Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them. | |
188 | ||
189 | Bugs fixed: | |
190 | A file descriptor was leaked for each track played. | |
191 | The amount of a track played so far was not reported. | |
192 | The speaker process could crash on underrun. | |
193 | The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track. | |
194 | Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not | |
195 | reliable. | |
196 | Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken. | |
197 | ||
198 | * Changes up to version 1.4 | |
199 | ||
200 | ** General | |
201 | ||
202 | Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and | |
203 | README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the | |
204 | inter-track gap. | |
205 | ||
206 | Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player | |
207 | plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this. | |
208 | ||
209 | When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the | |
210 | queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc. | |
211 | ||
212 | ** Web Interface | |
213 | ||
214 | Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a | |
215 | fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator. | |
216 | ||
217 | The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail | |
218 | of the queue. | |
219 | ||
220 | You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a | |
221 | single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the | |
222 | time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced | |
223 | on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences | |
224 | from the command line.) | |
225 | ||
226 | Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than | |
227 | disorder_config(5). | |
228 | ||
229 | ** Server | |
230 | ||
231 | If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled | |
232 | the server would exit with an error. | |
233 | ||
234 | The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player | |
235 | subprocesses. | |
236 | ||
237 | It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was | |
238 | issued. This should no longer be the case. | |
239 | ||
240 | The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL. | |
241 | ||
242 | ** Plugins | |
243 | ||
244 | Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document | |
245 | whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether | |
246 | they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup | |
247 | calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details. | |
248 | ||
249 | * Changes up to version 1.3 | |
250 | ||
251 | ** Dependencies | |
252 | ||
253 | Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3. | |
254 | ||
255 | ** Client | |
256 | ||
257 | There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local | |
258 | users. Please report successes as well as failures. | |
259 | ||
260 | There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an | |
261 | alias. | |
262 | ||
263 | The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument. | |
264 | ||
265 | ** Server | |
266 | ||
267 | The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve | |
268 | maintainability. | |
269 | ||
270 | There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile | |
271 | to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be | |
272 | inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support | |
273 | locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself. | |
274 | ||
275 | Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_ | |
276 | preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem. | |
277 | ||
278 | The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also | |
279 | runs a separate deadlock manager. | |
280 | ||
281 | Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged. | |
282 | This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly | |
283 | but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players. | |
284 | ||
285 | ** Web Interface | |
286 | ||
287 | Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state. | |
288 | ||
289 | Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now | |
290 | works. | |
291 | ||
413799e3 | 292 | Connection errors are reported more gracefully. |
460b9539 | 293 | |
294 | ** Plugins | |
295 | ||
296 | Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess. | |
297 | ||
298 | disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer | |
299 | available. Instead use disorder_track_random(). | |
300 | ||
301 | Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected | |
302 | immediately. | |
303 | ||
304 | ** Tools | |
305 | ||
306 | disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular | |
307 | file, rather than using stdin or stdout. | |
308 | ||
309 | ** Other | |
310 | ||
311 | Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding | |
312 | getting text encoding right. | |
313 | ||
314 | * Changes up to version 1.2 | |
315 | ||
316 | See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version. | |
317 | ||
318 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
319 | ||
320 | Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list. | |
321 | ||
322 | When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be | |
323 | added to the recently played list. This has been fixed. | |
324 | ||
325 | Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing | |
326 | action. | |
327 | ||
328 | The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single | |
329 | artist or album. | |
330 | ||
331 | ** Server | |
332 | ||
333 | New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There | |
334 | are associated changes to the protocol and clients. | |
335 | ||
336 | The number of database queries per candidate match required when | |
337 | searching has been reduced. | |
338 | ||
339 | The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The | |
340 | default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL. | |
341 | ||
342 | The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw | |
343 | access to the server's ordinary log output. | |
344 | ||
345 | ** Web Interface Changes | |
346 | ||
347 | *** Choosing Tracks | |
348 | ||
349 | When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than | |
350 | redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets | |
351 | feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as | |
352 | such in the track picking screen. | |
353 | ||
354 | It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back= | |
355 | argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally | |
356 | the trackstate lines). | |
357 | ||
358 | *** Search | |
359 | ||
360 | Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms. | |
361 | ||
362 | *** Syntax | |
363 | ||
364 | The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in | |
365 | certain places. | |
366 | ||
367 | *** Miscellaneous | |
368 | ||
369 | Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text | |
370 | reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed | |
371 | in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every | |
372 | template. | |
373 | ||
374 | Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now | |
375 | links to the corresponding directory. | |
376 | ||
377 | More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen. | |
378 | ||
379 | The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of | |
380 | down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old | |
381 | appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage' | |
382 | instead (or edit the template). | |
383 | ||
384 | ** tkdisorder | |
385 | ||
386 | tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and | |
387 | recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly). | |
388 | ||
389 | * Changes up to version 1.1 | |
390 | ||
391 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
392 | ||
393 | Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing. | |
394 | ||
395 | In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not | |
396 | 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter. | |
397 | ||
398 | ** Server | |
399 | ||
400 | The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server | |
401 | restarts. | |
402 | ||
403 | Track IDs are more compact. | |
404 | ||
405 | Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both | |
406 | work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release. | |
407 | ||
408 | Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people | |
409 | upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to | |
410 | 1.1.) | |
411 | ||
412 | ** Command Line | |
413 | ||
414 | Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line. | |
415 | ||
416 | 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs. | |
417 | ||
418 | $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and | |
419 | options. | |
420 | ||
421 | ** Web Interface | |
422 | ||
423 | New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane | |
424 | details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are | |
425 | now properly supported in this context. | |
426 | ||
427 | CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance. | |
428 | ||
429 | Local Variables: | |
430 | mode:outline | |
431 | fill-column:72 | |
432 | End: |