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4 | <title>DisOrder Change History</title> | |
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9 | <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1> | |
10 | ||
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11 | <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a |
12 | href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p> | |
13 | ||
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14 | <p><b>IMPORTANT</b>: you should read <a |
15 | href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> before upgrading.</p> | |
16 | ||
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17 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.2</h2> |
18 | ||
19 | <div class=section> | |
20 | ||
2f575936 | 21 | <h3>PulseAudio Support</h3> |
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22 | |
23 | <div class=section> | |
24 | ||
25 | <p>PulseAudio is now supported, if the support library is available at | |
26 | build time. It is the default for client applications, reflecting its | |
27 | widespread use in desktop environments.</p> | |
28 | ||
2f575936 | 29 | <p>Volume setting is not currently supported when PulseAudio is in |
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30 | use.</p> |
31 | ||
32 | </div> | |
33 | ||
2f575936 | 34 | <h3>Changes To RTP Support</h3> |
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35 | |
36 | <div class=section> | |
37 | ||
38 | <p>Disobedience now has a menu to select the network playback API.</p> | |
39 | ||
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40 | <p><code>disorder-playrtp</code> now selects playback API using |
41 | a <code>--api</code> option. The old API-selection options remain | |
42 | available but are deprecated and will be removed in the future.</p> | |
d9bc9ccd | 43 | |
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44 | <p>RTP playback can now transmit to multiple unicast destinations, added |
45 | and removed on demand. This is controlled by the new <code>rtp_mode</code> | |
46 | option. The motivating use case is a bridged network with high- and | |
47 | low-capacity components. However it is may also be useful in a routed | |
48 | network without multicast routing support.</p> | |
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49 | |
50 | </div> | |
51 | ||
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52 | <h3>GStreamer support</h3> |
53 | ||
54 | <div class=section> | |
55 | ||
56 | <p>If it's detected at <tt>configure</tt> time, a new decoder | |
57 | program <tt>disorder-gstdecode</tt> is built. It uses the GStreamer | |
58 | library for audio decoding and sample-rate conversion, among other | |
59 | features. | |
60 | ||
61 | <p>The decoder has a number of options for controlling the sample-rate and | |
62 | audio format conversion, allowing various tradeoffs between quality and | |
63 | processor time. (High-quality conversion can consume more processor time | |
64 | than decoding, so this is potentially useful on very a small device such as | |
65 | a Raspberry Pi.</p> | |
66 | ||
67 | <p>The GStreamer decoder can also use ReplayGain information stored in | |
68 | audio files' metadata to adjust playback volume, so that tracks with very | |
69 | wide dynamic range don't sound really quiet in comparison. This | |
70 | information can be added using tools such as <tt>mp3gain</tt>, | |
71 | <tt>vorbisgain</tt>, or <tt>metaflac</tt>. This is turned on by default if | |
72 | you use the decoder; you can choose between per-album or per-track | |
73 | settings, or turn it off entirely, using command-line options.</p> | |
74 | ||
75 | <p>The GStreamer decoder is not used by default, but it can be enabled | |
76 | easily enough by dropping something like the following into the server | |
77 | configuration file: | |
78 | <pre> | |
79 | player | |
80 | player *.flac execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 | |
81 | player *.mp2 execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 | |
82 | player *.mp3 execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 | |
83 | player *.ogg execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 | |
84 | player *.wav execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 | |
85 | </pre> | |
86 | </p> | |
87 | ||
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88 | <h3>Bug fixes</h3> |
89 | ||
90 | <div class=section> | |
91 | ||
92 | <ul> | |
93 | <li>The CGI program now checks user passwords even when it runs as the | |
94 | main jukebox user(!).</li> | |
95 | ||
96 | <li>DisObedience doesn't crash when search terms change under its | |
97 | feet.</li> | |
98 | ||
99 | <li>The CGI program doesn't crash on some POST requests. | |
100 | </ul> | |
101 | ||
102 | </div> | |
103 | ||
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104 | </div> |
105 | ||
d8d79f78 | 106 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.1.1</h2> |
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107 | |
108 | <div class=section> | |
109 | ||
110 | <h3>Bug fixes</h3> | |
111 | ||
112 | <div class=section> | |
113 | ||
114 | <ul> | |
115 | <li><code>player</code> and <code>tracklength</code> can now be used | |
116 | without arguments to clear the lists, as per the documentation.</li> | |
117 | ||
118 | <li>Tracks without a player are forgotten upon rescan.</li> | |
119 | ||
120 | <li>The speaker process avoids splitting frames.</li> | |
121 | </ul> | |
122 | ||
123 | <p>Thanks to Mark Wooding and Joe Birr-Pixton.</p> | |
124 | ||
125 | </div> | |
126 | ||
127 | </div> | |
128 | ||
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129 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.1</h2> |
130 | ||
131 | <div class=section> | |
132 | ||
133 | <h3>Removable Device Support</h3> | |
134 | ||
135 | <div class=section> | |
136 | ||
137 | <p>The server will now automatically initiate a rescan when a filesystem is | |
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138 | mounted or unmounted. (Use the <tt>mount_rescan</tt> option if you want to |
139 | suppress this behavior.)</p> | |
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140 | |
141 | <p>The server takes care not to hold audio files open unnecessarily, so | |
142 | that devices can be unmounted even if tracks from them are currently being | |
143 | buffered.</p> | |
144 | ||
145 | </div> | |
146 | ||
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147 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
148 | ||
149 | <div class=section> | |
150 | ||
151 | <p>You can now edit the <tt>required-tags</tt> and <tt>prohibited-tags</tt> | |
152 | global preferences in Disobedience | |
153 | (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=29">issue | |
154 | #29</a>).</p> | |
155 | ||
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156 | <p>The “Manage users” option is now more reliably greyed out if |
157 | it will not work. This depends on a server change too, so it may still be | |
158 | wrong if a new Disobedience is used against an old server.</p> | |
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159 | |
160 | <p>A <tt>.desktop</tt> file is now shipped, making Disobedience visible as | |
161 | an application in freedesktop.org-compliant systems.</p> | |
164f2e93 | 162 | |
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163 | </div> |
164 | ||
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165 | <h3>Backups</h3> |
166 | ||
167 | <div class=section> | |
168 | ||
169 | <p>The Debian package now includes a cronjob that backs up the database | |
170 | daily. See <tt>/etc/cron.d/disorder</tt>. You can put settings | |
171 | in <tt>/etc/default/disorder</tt> to turn this off or to control how long | |
172 | the backups are kept for.</p> | |
173 | ||
174 | <p>The <tt>disorder-dump -r</tt> option was broken.</p> | |
175 | ||
5568dfa8 | 176 | <p><tt>disorder-dump</tt> now gets permissions right automatically (<a |
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177 | href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=56">issue |
178 | #56</a>).</p> | |
179 | ||
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180 | </div> |
181 | ||
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182 | <h3>General</h3> |
183 | ||
184 | <div class=section> | |
185 | ||
186 | <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a | |
187 | href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/">Unicode | |
188 | 6.0.0</a>.</p> | |
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189 | |
190 | <p>Client programs no longer depend on libdb.</p> | |
7823bd97 | 191 | |
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192 | <p>The following have been removed:</p> |
193 | ||
194 | <ul> | |
195 | ||
196 | <li>The <tt>allow</tt>, <tt>gap</tt>, <tt>lock</tt>, <tt>prefsync</tt>, | |
197 | <tt>restrict</tt>, <tt>trust</tt> configuration commands. If they still | |
198 | appear in your configuration file then the server will not start.</li> | |
199 | ||
200 | <li>The <tt>columns</tt> web interface option. It will generate an | |
201 | message in your error log but otherwise be ignored.</li> | |
202 | ||
203 | <li>The <tt>--wait-for-device</tt> player option. If it still appears in | |
204 | any player commands, they will not work.</li> | |
205 | ||
206 | <li>Support for automatically importing pre-3.0 users.</li> | |
207 | ||
208 | </ul> | |
209 | ||
7823bd97 | 210 | <p>Various minor bug fixes.</p> |
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211 | |
212 | </div> | |
213 | ||
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214 | </div> |
215 | ||
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216 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.3</h2> |
217 | ||
218 | <div class=section> | |
219 | ||
220 | <p><b>Security</b>: Local connections can no longer create and delete users | |
221 | unless they are properly authorized.</p> | |
222 | ||
223 | </div> | |
224 | ||
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225 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.2</h2> |
226 | ||
227 | <div class=section> | |
228 | ||
229 | <p>The login form now indicates that a cookie will be set.</p> | |
230 | ||
231 | </div> | |
232 | ||
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233 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.1</h2> |
234 | ||
235 | <div class=section> | |
236 | ||
237 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
238 | ||
239 | <div class=section> | |
240 | ||
241 | <p>The sense of the Control → Playing menu item was fixed.</p> | |
242 | ||
243 | </div> | |
244 | ||
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245 | </div> |
246 | ||
64360021 | 247 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.0</h2> |
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248 | |
249 | <div class=section> | |
250 | ||
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251 | <h3>Server</h3> |
252 | ||
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253 | <div class=section> |
254 | ||
fe33cfc0 | 255 | <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X. |
7cd4dd21 | 256 | Devices may |
f207f710 | 257 | be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a |
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258 | href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue |
259 | 27</a>.</p> | |
f207f710 | 260 | |
f71fc3ab | 261 | <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP |
6762ac8a | 262 | should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has |
f71fc3ab | 263 | been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible |
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264 | that bugs may have been (re-)introduced. Decoding of scratches is also |
265 | initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.</p> | |
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266 | |
267 | <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead | |
268 | of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p> | |
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269 | |
270 | <p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is | |
271 | available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking | |
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272 | <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>. SoX support will be |
273 | removed in a future version.</p> | |
c3feb35b | 274 | |
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275 | <p>The libao plugin has been removed, because the plugin API is not |
276 | usable in libao 1.0.0.</p> | |
86541f5a | 277 | |
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278 | <p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be |
279 | prepared offline and played as a unit.</p> | |
280 | ||
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281 | </div> |
282 | ||
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283 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
284 | ||
285 | <div class=section> | |
286 | ||
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287 | <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation. |
288 | Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the | |
289 | “Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs | |
290 | to the queue.</p> | |
6a7eb118 | 291 | |
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292 | <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing and has a compact mode, |
293 | available from the <b>Control</b> menu.</p> | |
79ab6bd2 | 294 | |
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295 | <p>Disobedience has a <a href="disobedience/manual/index.html">new |
296 | manual</a>.</p> | |
297 | ||
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298 | </div> |
299 | ||
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300 | <h3>Web Interface</h3> |
301 | ||
302 | <div class=section> | |
53710d44 | 303 | |
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304 | <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end |
305 | with punctuation). (Please see <a | |
2ea2b361 | 306 | href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p> |
533272be | 307 | |
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308 | </div> |
309 | ||
310 | <h3>RTP Player</h3> | |
311 | ||
312 | <div class=section> | |
313 | ||
314 | <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player | |
315 | to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See | |
316 | the man page for details.</p> | |
317 | ||
318 | <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works | |
319 | under OS X (as above).</p> | |
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320 | |
321 | </div> | |
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322 | |
323 | <h3>General</h3> | |
f5fd9a6b | 324 | |
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325 | <div class=section> |
326 | ||
327 | <p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications | |
328 | (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with | |
329 | <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use | |
330 | of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p> | |
331 | ||
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332 | <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a |
333 | href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode | |
334 | 5.1.0</a>.</p> | |
335 | ||
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336 | <p>Various elements of the source code have been |
337 | rationalized.</p> | |
338 | ||
339 | </div> | |
340 | ||
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341 | <h3>Bugs fixed</h3> |
342 | ||
343 | <div class=section> | |
344 | ||
345 | <table class=bugs> | |
346 | <tr> | |
347 | <th>ID</th> | |
348 | <th>Description</th> | |
349 | </tr> | |
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350 | |
351 | <tr> | |
352 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=22">#22</a></td> | |
353 | <td>Background decoders interact badly with server reload</td> | |
354 | </tr> | |
355 | ||
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356 | <tr> |
357 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td> | |
358 | <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td> | |
359 | </tr> | |
360 | ||
548c9cba | 361 | <tr> |
2ea2b361 | 362 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=30">#30</a></td> |
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363 | <td>mini disobedience interface</td> |
364 | </tr> | |
365 | ||
bbaed9ec | 366 | <tr> |
2ea2b361 | 367 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#32</a></td> |
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368 | <td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown</td> |
369 | </tr> | |
370 | ||
7cd4dd21 | 371 | <tr> |
2ea2b361 | 372 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></td> |
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373 | <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td> |
374 | </tr> | |
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375 | |
376 | <tr> | |
2ea2b361 | 377 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></td> |
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378 | <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td> |
379 | </tr> | |
380 | ||
381 | <tr> | |
2ea2b361 | 382 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></td> |
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383 | <td>Missing stub function</td> |
384 | </tr> | |
385 | ||
386 | <tr> | |
2ea2b361 | 387 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></td> |
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388 | <td>Missing includes for timeval</td> |
389 | </tr> | |
390 | ||
391 | <tr> | |
2ea2b361 | 392 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></td> |
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393 | <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td> |
394 | </tr> | |
395 | ||
93379b3d | 396 | <tr> |
2ea2b361 | 397 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></td> |
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398 | <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td> |
399 | </tr> | |
400 | ||
6762ac8a | 401 | <tr> |
2ea2b361 | 402 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></td> |
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403 | <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td> |
404 | </tr> | |
405 | ||
406 | <tr> | |
2ea2b361 | 407 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></td> |
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408 | <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td> |
409 | </tr> | |
fa667301 | 410 | |
d53ef367 | 411 | <tr> |
2ea2b361 | 412 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=46">#46</a></td> |
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413 | <td>Sort search results in web interface</td> |
414 | </tr> | |
415 | ||
fa667301 | 416 | <tr> |
2ea2b361 | 417 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></td> |
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418 | <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td> |
419 | </tr> | |
420 | ||
e03df0a5 | 421 | <tr> |
2ea2b361 | 422 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></td> |
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423 | <td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td> |
424 | </tr> | |
425 | ||
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426 | <tr> |
427 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=51">#51</a></td> | |
428 | <td>Improved speaker process robustness</td> | |
429 | </tr> | |
430 | ||
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431 | <tr> |
432 | <td>(none)</td> | |
433 | <td>“found track in no collection” messages for scratches | |
434 | are now suppressed</td> | |
435 | </tr> | |
436 | ||
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437 | <tr> |
438 | <td>(none)</td> | |
439 | <td>Disobedience would sometimes fail to notice when a track | |
440 | started, leading to its display getting out of date.</td> | |
441 | </tr> | |
442 | ||
f5fd9a6b | 443 | </table> |
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444 | </div> |
445 | </div> | |
446 | ||
a0e78d96 | 447 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2> |
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448 | |
449 | <div class=section> | |
450 | ||
451 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
452 | ||
453 | <div class=section> | |
454 | ||
455 | <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had | |
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456 | played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in |
457 | various situations.</p> | |
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458 | |
459 | <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful | |
460 | ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p> | |
461 | ||
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462 | <p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose |
463 | tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which | |
464 | selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p> | |
465 | ||
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466 | </div> |
467 | ||
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468 | <h3>Server</h3> |
469 | ||
470 | <div class=section> | |
471 | ||
472 | <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You | |
473 | can put it back to the old very neophilic value with | |
474 | “<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p> | |
475 | ||
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476 | <p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks. |
477 | Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web | |
478 | interface does not.</p> | |
479 | ||
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480 | <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames |
481 | generated by iTunes.</p> | |
482 | ||
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483 | </div> |
484 | ||
10a6c925 | 485 | <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> |
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486 | |
487 | <div class=section> | |
488 | ||
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489 | <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p> |
490 | ||
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491 | <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a |
492 | href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main | |
493 | goal is to prohibit <a | |
494 | href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p> | |
495 | ||
d8b95785 | 496 | <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+ |
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497 | packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian |
498 | packaging.</p> | |
d8b95785 | 499 | |
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500 | <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p> |
501 | ||
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503 | |
504 | </div> | |
505 | ||
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506 | <h3>Bugs fixed</h3> |
507 | ||
508 | <div class=section> | |
509 | ||
510 | <table class=bugs> | |
511 | <tr> | |
512 | <th>ID</th> | |
513 | <th>Description</th> | |
514 | </tr> | |
515 | ||
516 | <tr> | |
517 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td> | |
518 | <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td> | |
519 | </tr> | |
520 | <tr> | |
521 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td> | |
522 | <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td> | |
523 | </tr> | |
524 | </table> | |
525 | ||
526 | </div> | |
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529 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2> |
530 | ||
531 | <div class=section> | |
532 | ||
533 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
534 | ||
535 | <div class=section> | |
536 | ||
537 | <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off | |
538 | then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would | |
539 | always use TCP/IP.</p> | |
540 | ||
541 | <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue. | |
542 | Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return | |
543 | now works in the login and properties windows.</p> | |
544 | ||
545 | </div> | |
546 | ||
547 | <h3>Documentation</h3> | |
548 | ||
549 | <div class=section> | |
550 | ||
551 | <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new | |
552 | <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p> | |
553 | ||
554 | </div> | |
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555 | |
556 | <h3>Bugs fixed</h3> | |
557 | ||
558 | <div class=section> | |
559 | ||
560 | <table class=bugs> | |
561 | <tr> | |
562 | <th>ID</th> | |
563 | <th>Description</th> | |
564 | </tr> | |
565 | ||
566 | <tr> | |
567 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td> | |
568 | <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td> | |
569 | </tr> | |
570 | </table> | |
571 | ||
572 | </div> | |
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573 | </div> |
574 | ||
575 | ||
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576 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2> |
577 | ||
578 | <div class=section> | |
579 | ||
580 | <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged | |
581 | in.</p> | |
582 | ||
583 | </div> | |
584 | ||
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585 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2> |
586 | ||
587 | <div class=section> | |
588 | ||
589 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
590 | ||
591 | <div class=section> | |
592 | ||
593 | <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p> | |
594 | ||
595 | <ul> | |
596 | ||
597 | <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in | |
598 | greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+ | |
599 | applications.</li> | |
600 | ||
601 | <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation | |
602 | of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're | |
603 | half way through entering search terms.</li> | |
604 | ||
605 | <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li> | |
606 | ||
607 | <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't | |
608 | be used.</li> | |
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609 | |
610 | <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li> | |
611 | ||
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612 | </ul> |
613 | ||
614 | <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to | |
615 | a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server | |
616 | fully up to date.</p> | |
617 | ||
618 | </div> | |
619 | ||
620 | <h3>Server</h3> | |
621 | ||
622 | <div class=section> | |
623 | ||
624 | <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is | |
625 | now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous | |
626 | behaviour).</p> | |
627 | ||
628 | </div> | |
629 | </div> | |
630 | ||
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631 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2> |
632 | ||
633 | <div class=section> | |
634 | ||
635 | <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p> | |
636 | ||
637 | </div> | |
638 | ||
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639 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2> |
640 | ||
641 | <div class=section> | |
642 | ||
643 | <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this, | |
644 | <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure | |
645 | script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p> | |
646 | ||
647 | </div> | |
648 | ||
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650 | |
651 | <div class=section> | |
652 | ||
653 | <h3>Server</h3> | |
654 | ||
655 | <div class=section> | |
656 | ||
657 | <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be | |
658 | restored if there is real demand.</p> | |
659 | ||
660 | <h4>Event Scheduling</h4> | |
661 | ||
662 | <div class=section> | |
663 | ||
664 | <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future. | |
665 | Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and | |
666 | changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be | |
667 | turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt> | |
668 | commands described in disorder(1).</p> | |
669 | ||
670 | </div> | |
671 | ||
672 | <h4>Random Track Choice</h4> | |
673 | ||
674 | <div class=section> | |
675 | ||
676 | <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p> | |
677 | ||
678 | <ul> | |
679 | ||
680 | <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer | |
681 | eligible for random choice.</li> | |
682 | ||
683 | <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for | |
684 | non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li> | |
685 | ||
686 | <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining | |
687 | the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random. | |
688 | The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li> | |
689 | ||
690 | <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and | |
691 | <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li> | |
692 | ||
693 | </ul> | |
694 | ||
695 | </div> | |
696 | ||
697 | <h4>Web Interface</h4> | |
698 | ||
699 | <div class=section> | |
700 | ||
701 | <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p> | |
702 | ||
703 | <ul> | |
704 | ||
705 | <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and | |
706 | includes links to parent directories.</li> | |
707 | ||
708 | <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for, | |
709 | instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are | |
710 | redirected to the login page.</li> | |
711 | ||
712 | </ul> | |
713 | ||
714 | <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it | |
715 | is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is | |
716 | less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p> | |
717 | ||
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718 | <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains |
719 | possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and | |
720 | <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p> | |
4cbafe13 | 721 | |
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722 | <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it, |
723 | use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default | |
724 | location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt> | |
725 | and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p> | |
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727 | </div> |
728 | ||
729 | </div> | |
730 | ||
731 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
732 | ||
733 | <div class=section> | |
734 | ||
735 | <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and | |
736 | remove users or modify their settings.</p> | |
737 | ||
738 | <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set | |
739 | <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p> | |
740 | ||
741 | </div> | |
742 | ||
743 | <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> | |
744 | ||
745 | <div class=section> | |
746 | ||
747 | <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can | |
748 | set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p> | |
749 | ||
750 | </div> | |
751 | ||
752 | <h3>Bugs Fixed</h3> | |
753 | ||
754 | <div class=section> | |
755 | ||
756 | <table class=bugs> | |
757 | <tr> | |
758 | <th>ID</th> | |
759 | <th>Description</th> | |
760 | </tr> | |
761 | ||
762 | <tr> | |
763 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td> | |
764 | <td>Search results should link to directories</td> | |
765 | </tr> | |
766 | ||
767 | <tr> | |
768 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td> | |
769 | <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td> | |
770 | </tr> | |
771 | ||
772 | <tr> | |
773 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td> | |
774 | <td>Non-uniform track selection</td> | |
775 | </tr> | |
776 | ||
777 | <tr> | |
778 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td> | |
779 | <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td> | |
780 | </tr> | |
781 | ||
782 | <tr> | |
783 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td> | |
784 | <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td> | |
785 | </tr> | |
786 | ||
787 | <tr> | |
788 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td> | |
789 | <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not | |
790 | subsequently redirected to login page</td> | |
791 | </tr> | |
792 | ||
793 | <tr> | |
794 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td> | |
795 | <td>Broken aliasing rules</td> | |
796 | </tr> | |
797 | ||
798 | </table> | |
799 | ||
800 | </div> | |
801 | ||
802 | </div> | |
803 | ||
804 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2> | |
805 | ||
806 | <div class=section> | |
807 | ||
808 | <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p> | |
809 | ||
810 | <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value | |
811 | syntax it will accept.</p> | |
812 | ||
813 | <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p> | |
814 | ||
815 | </div> | |
816 | ||
817 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2> | |
818 | ||
819 | <div class=section> | |
820 | ||
821 | <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p> | |
822 | ||
823 | </div> | |
824 | ||
825 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2> | |
826 | ||
827 | <div class=section> | |
828 | ||
829 | <p><b>Important</b>! See <a | |
2ea2b361 | 830 | href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p> |
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831 | |
832 | <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3> | |
833 | ||
834 | <div class=section> | |
835 | ||
836 | <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash | |
837 | script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after | |
838 | <tt>make install</tt>.</p> | |
839 | ||
840 | </div> | |
841 | ||
842 | <h3>Server</h3> | |
843 | ||
844 | <div class=section> | |
845 | ||
846 | <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration | |
847 | file.</p> | |
848 | ||
849 | <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so | |
850 | only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p> | |
851 | ||
852 | <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p> | |
853 | ||
854 | <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt> | |
855 | configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set, | |
856 | which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p> | |
857 | ||
858 | <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p> | |
859 | ||
860 | </div> | |
861 | ||
862 | <h3>Web Interface</h3> | |
863 | ||
864 | <div class=section> | |
865 | ||
866 | <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and | |
867 | allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer | |
868 | necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you | |
869 | can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p> | |
870 | ||
871 | <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p> | |
872 | ||
873 | <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has | |
874 | been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer | |
875 | 7 and Opera 9.</p> | |
876 | ||
877 | </div> | |
878 | ||
879 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> | |
880 | ||
881 | <div class=section> | |
882 | ||
883 | <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the | |
884 | queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new | |
885 | 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p> | |
886 | ||
887 | </div> | |
888 | ||
889 | </div> | |
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