1 * Changes up to version 2.1
3 ** Platforms And Installation
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'.
10 Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file.
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.
15 The default inter-track gap is now 0s.
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
21 A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).
25 The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows
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).
30 It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.
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
38 A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue
39 while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all
40 tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.
42 * Changes up to version 2.0
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.
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)).
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
60 There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
61 Feedback on the interface would be very welcome.
65 The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From
66 here they can be played or their preferences changed.
68 Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover
73 DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on
74 multiple client machines. See README.streams for details.
78 Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help
79 installations with large collections and/or slow platforms.
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.
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
90 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified.
92 A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a
93 crash when random play was enabled has been fixed.
95 A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random
96 tracks kept on the queue to be controlled.
98 There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV
99 and FLAC. The example config file uses it.
101 Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server
102 (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration.
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
111 ** Build And Configuration
113 You can control which components are built with new --with options. See
116 options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced
117 with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are
122 Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all
123 contributed in some way to this release.
125 * Changes up to version 1.5.1
129 Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks.
131 * Changes up to version 1.5
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.
141 Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line
146 New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options
147 allow independent control of process priorities.
149 Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them.
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
158 Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken.
160 * Changes up to version 1.4
164 Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and
165 README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the
168 Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player
169 plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this.
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.
176 Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a
177 fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator.
179 The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail
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.)
188 Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than
193 If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled
194 the server would exit with an error.
196 The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player
199 It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was
200 issued. This should no longer be the case.
202 The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL.
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.
211 * Changes up to version 1.3
215 Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3.
219 There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local
220 users. Please report successes as well as failures.
222 There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an
225 The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument.
229 The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve
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.
237 Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_
238 preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem.
240 The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also
241 runs a separate deadlock manager.
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.
249 Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
251 Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
254 Connection errors are reported more gracefully.
258 Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess.
260 disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer
261 available. Instead use disorder_track_random().
263 Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected
268 disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular
269 file, rather than using stdin or stdout.
273 Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding
274 getting text encoding right.
276 * Changes up to version 1.2
278 See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version.
282 Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list.
284 When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be
285 added to the recently played list. This has been fixed.
287 Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing
290 The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single
295 New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There
296 are associated changes to the protocol and clients.
298 The number of database queries per candidate match required when
299 searching has been reduced.
301 The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The
302 default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL.
304 The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw
305 access to the server's ordinary log output.
307 ** Web Interface Changes
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.
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).
322 Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms.
326 The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in
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
336 Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now
337 links to the corresponding directory.
339 More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen.
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).
348 tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and
349 recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly).
351 * Changes up to version 1.1
355 Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing.
357 In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not
358 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter.
362 The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server
365 Track IDs are more compact.
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.
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
376 Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line.
378 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs.
380 $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and
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.
389 CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance.
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