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1 | * Changes up to version 2.1 |
2 | ||
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3 | ** Platforms And Installation |
4 | ||
5 | Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash script | |
6 | in scripts/setup which will automate the setup after 'make install'. | |
7 | ||
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8 | ** Server |
9 | ||
10 | Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file. | |
11 | ||
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12 | The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only |
13 | additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file. | |
86be0c30 | 14 | |
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15 | The default inter-track gap is now 0s. |
16 | ||
ad884aa5 | 17 | How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration |
18 | command. This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with | |
19 | ALSA as well as OSS. | |
20 | ||
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21 | A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4). |
22 | ||
d84bf422 | 23 | ** Web Interface |
24 | ||
25 | The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows | |
b64c2805 | 26 | online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to |
27 | manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it | |
28 | if you don't like the value it figures out). | |
d84bf422 | 29 | |
b18d2a34 | 30 | It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface. |
ad884aa5 | 31 | |
32 | The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been | |
33 | tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and | |
34 | Opera 9. | |
35 | ||
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36 | ** Disobedience |
37 | ||
38 | A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue | |
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39 | while no rtack was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all |
40 | tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks. | |
8137fb3d | 41 | |
92afc09e | 42 | * Changes up to version 2.0 |
460b9539 | 43 | |
44 | ** General | |
45 | ||
460b9539 | 46 | Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1) |
47 | or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience. | |
48 | ||
49 | The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search | |
50 | documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is | |
51 | possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and | |
52 | prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)). | |
53 | ||
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54 | Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows |
55 | the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the | |
56 | latte case). | |
57 | ||
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58 | ** Disobedience |
59 | ||
60 | There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. | |
61 | Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. | |
62 | ||
63 | ** Web Interface | |
64 | ||
65 | The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From | |
66 | here they can be played or their preferences changed. | |
67 | ||
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68 | Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover |
69 | for the full name. | |
70 | ||
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71 | ** Network Play |
72 | ||
73 | DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on | |
74 | multiple client machines. See README.streams for details. | |
75 | ||
460b9539 | 76 | ** Server |
77 | ||
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78 | Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help |
79 | installations with large collections and/or slow platforms. | |
460b9539 | 80 | |
81 | The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone. | |
82 | Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next. | |
83 | 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable | |
84 | playing and then scratch the current track. | |
85 | ||
86 | The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there | |
87 | is now built into the server, where it can be done much more | |
88 | efficiently. | |
89 | ||
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90 | 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified. |
91 | ||
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92 | A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a |
93 | crash when random play was enabled has been fixed. | |
94 | ||
63e28749 | 95 | A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random |
96 | tracks kept on the queue to be controlled. | |
97 | ||
75db8354 | 98 | There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV |
99 | and FLAC. The example config file uses it. | |
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101 | Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server |
102 | (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration. | |
103 | ||
460b9539 | 104 | ** disorderfm |
105 | ||
106 | There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed | |
107 | for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories. | |
108 | It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional | |
109 | details. | |
110 | ||
111 | ** Build And Configuration | |
112 | ||
113 | You can control which components are built with new --with options. See | |
114 | README. | |
115 | ||
116 | options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced | |
117 | with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are | |
118 | now optional. | |
119 | ||
63e28749 | 120 | ** Thanks |
121 | ||
122 | Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all | |
123 | contributed in some way to this release. | |
124 | ||
460b9539 | 125 | * Changes up to version 1.5.1 |
126 | ||
127 | ** Web Interface | |
128 | ||
129 | Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks. | |
130 | ||
131 | * Changes up to version 1.5 | |
132 | ||
133 | ** Web Interface | |
134 | ||
135 | Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial | |
136 | 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the | |
137 | amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded. | |
138 | ||
139 | ** Client | |
140 | ||
141 | Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line | |
142 | client. | |
143 | ||
144 | ** Server | |
145 | ||
146 | New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options | |
147 | allow independent control of process priorities. | |
148 | ||
149 | Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them. | |
150 | ||
151 | Bugs fixed: | |
152 | A file descriptor was leaked for each track played. | |
153 | The amount of a track played so far was not reported. | |
154 | The speaker process could crash on underrun. | |
155 | The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track. | |
156 | Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not | |
157 | reliable. | |
158 | Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken. | |
159 | ||
160 | * Changes up to version 1.4 | |
161 | ||
162 | ** General | |
163 | ||
164 | Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and | |
165 | README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the | |
166 | inter-track gap. | |
167 | ||
168 | Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player | |
169 | plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this. | |
170 | ||
171 | When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the | |
172 | queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc. | |
173 | ||
174 | ** Web Interface | |
175 | ||
176 | Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a | |
177 | fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator. | |
178 | ||
179 | The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail | |
180 | of the queue. | |
181 | ||
182 | You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a | |
183 | single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the | |
184 | time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced | |
185 | on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences | |
186 | from the command line.) | |
187 | ||
188 | Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than | |
189 | disorder_config(5). | |
190 | ||
191 | ** Server | |
192 | ||
193 | If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled | |
194 | the server would exit with an error. | |
195 | ||
196 | The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player | |
197 | subprocesses. | |
198 | ||
199 | It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was | |
200 | issued. This should no longer be the case. | |
201 | ||
202 | The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL. | |
203 | ||
204 | ** Plugins | |
205 | ||
206 | Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document | |
207 | whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether | |
208 | they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup | |
209 | calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details. | |
210 | ||
211 | * Changes up to version 1.3 | |
212 | ||
213 | ** Dependencies | |
214 | ||
215 | Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3. | |
216 | ||
217 | ** Client | |
218 | ||
219 | There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local | |
220 | users. Please report successes as well as failures. | |
221 | ||
222 | There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an | |
223 | alias. | |
224 | ||
225 | The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument. | |
226 | ||
227 | ** Server | |
228 | ||
229 | The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve | |
230 | maintainability. | |
231 | ||
232 | There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile | |
233 | to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be | |
234 | inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support | |
235 | locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself. | |
236 | ||
237 | Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_ | |
238 | preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem. | |
239 | ||
240 | The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also | |
241 | runs a separate deadlock manager. | |
242 | ||
243 | Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged. | |
244 | This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly | |
245 | but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players. | |
246 | ||
247 | ** Web Interface | |
248 | ||
249 | Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state. | |
250 | ||
251 | Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now | |
252 | works. | |
253 | ||
254 | Connection errors are reported more gracefuly. | |
255 | ||
256 | ** Plugins | |
257 | ||
258 | Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess. | |
259 | ||
260 | disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer | |
261 | available. Instead use disorder_track_random(). | |
262 | ||
263 | Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected | |
264 | immediately. | |
265 | ||
266 | ** Tools | |
267 | ||
268 | disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular | |
269 | file, rather than using stdin or stdout. | |
270 | ||
271 | ** Other | |
272 | ||
273 | Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding | |
274 | getting text encoding right. | |
275 | ||
276 | * Changes up to version 1.2 | |
277 | ||
278 | See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version. | |
279 | ||
280 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
281 | ||
282 | Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list. | |
283 | ||
284 | When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be | |
285 | added to the recently played list. This has been fixed. | |
286 | ||
287 | Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing | |
288 | action. | |
289 | ||
290 | The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single | |
291 | artist or album. | |
292 | ||
293 | ** Server | |
294 | ||
295 | New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There | |
296 | are associated changes to the protocol and clients. | |
297 | ||
298 | The number of database queries per candidate match required when | |
299 | searching has been reduced. | |
300 | ||
301 | The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The | |
302 | default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL. | |
303 | ||
304 | The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw | |
305 | access to the server's ordinary log output. | |
306 | ||
307 | ** Web Interface Changes | |
308 | ||
309 | *** Choosing Tracks | |
310 | ||
311 | When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than | |
312 | redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets | |
313 | feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as | |
314 | such in the track picking screen. | |
315 | ||
316 | It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back= | |
317 | argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally | |
318 | the trackstate lines). | |
319 | ||
320 | *** Search | |
321 | ||
322 | Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms. | |
323 | ||
324 | *** Syntax | |
325 | ||
326 | The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in | |
327 | certain places. | |
328 | ||
329 | *** Miscellaneous | |
330 | ||
331 | Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text | |
332 | reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed | |
333 | in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every | |
334 | template. | |
335 | ||
336 | Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now | |
337 | links to the corresponding directory. | |
338 | ||
339 | More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen. | |
340 | ||
341 | The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of | |
342 | down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old | |
343 | appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage' | |
344 | instead (or edit the template). | |
345 | ||
346 | ** tkdisorder | |
347 | ||
348 | tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and | |
349 | recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly). | |
350 | ||
351 | * Changes up to version 1.1 | |
352 | ||
353 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
354 | ||
355 | Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing. | |
356 | ||
357 | In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not | |
358 | 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter. | |
359 | ||
360 | ** Server | |
361 | ||
362 | The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server | |
363 | restarts. | |
364 | ||
365 | Track IDs are more compact. | |
366 | ||
367 | Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both | |
368 | work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release. | |
369 | ||
370 | Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people | |
371 | upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to | |
372 | 1.1.) | |
373 | ||
374 | ** Command Line | |
375 | ||
376 | Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line. | |
377 | ||
378 | 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs. | |
379 | ||
380 | $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and | |
381 | options. | |
382 | ||
383 | ** Web Interface | |
384 | ||
385 | New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane | |
386 | details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are | |
387 | now properly supported in this context. | |
388 | ||
389 | CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance. | |
390 | ||
391 | Local Variables: | |
392 | mode:outline | |
393 | fill-column:72 | |
394 | End: |