1 * Changes up to version 3.1
5 The 'gap' directive will no longer work. It could be restored if there
8 * Changes up to version 3.0
10 Important! See README.upgrades when upgrading.
12 ** Platforms And Installation
14 Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash script
15 in scripts/setup which will automate the setup after 'make install'.
19 Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file.
21 The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only
22 additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.
24 The default inter-track gap is now 0s.
26 How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration
27 command. This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with
30 A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).
34 The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows
35 online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to
36 manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it
37 if you don't like the value it figures out).
39 It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.
41 The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been
42 tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and
47 A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue
48 while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all
49 tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.
51 * Changes up to version 2.0
55 Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1)
56 or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience.
58 The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search
59 documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is
60 possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and
61 prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)).
63 Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows
64 the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the
69 There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
70 Feedback on the interface would be very welcome.
74 The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From
75 here they can be played or their preferences changed.
77 Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover
82 DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on
83 multiple client machines. See README.streams for details.
87 Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help
88 installations with large collections and/or slow platforms.
90 The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone.
91 Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next.
92 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable
93 playing and then scratch the current track.
95 The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there
96 is now built into the server, where it can be done much more
99 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified.
101 A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a
102 crash when random play was enabled has been fixed.
104 A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random
105 tracks kept on the queue to be controlled.
107 There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV
108 and FLAC. The example config file uses it.
110 Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server
111 (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration.
115 There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed
116 for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories.
117 It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional
120 ** Build And Configuration
122 You can control which components are built with new --with options. See
125 options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced
126 with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are
131 Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all
132 contributed in some way to this release.
134 * Changes up to version 1.5.1
138 Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks.
140 * Changes up to version 1.5
144 Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial
145 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the
146 amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded.
150 Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line
155 New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options
156 allow independent control of process priorities.
158 Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them.
161 A file descriptor was leaked for each track played.
162 The amount of a track played so far was not reported.
163 The speaker process could crash on underrun.
164 The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track.
165 Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not
167 Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken.
169 * Changes up to version 1.4
173 Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and
174 README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the
177 Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player
178 plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this.
180 When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the
181 queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc.
185 Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a
186 fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator.
188 The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail
191 You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a
192 single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the
193 time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced
194 on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences
195 from the command line.)
197 Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than
202 If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled
203 the server would exit with an error.
205 The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player
208 It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was
209 issued. This should no longer be the case.
211 The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL.
215 Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document
216 whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether
217 they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup
218 calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details.
220 * Changes up to version 1.3
224 Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3.
228 There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local
229 users. Please report successes as well as failures.
231 There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an
234 The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument.
238 The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve
241 There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile
242 to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be
243 inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support
244 locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself.
246 Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_
247 preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem.
249 The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also
250 runs a separate deadlock manager.
252 Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged.
253 This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly
254 but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players.
258 Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
260 Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
263 Connection errors are reported more gracefully.
267 Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess.
269 disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer
270 available. Instead use disorder_track_random().
272 Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected
277 disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular
278 file, rather than using stdin or stdout.
282 Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding
283 getting text encoding right.
285 * Changes up to version 1.2
287 See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version.
291 Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list.
293 When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be
294 added to the recently played list. This has been fixed.
296 Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing
299 The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single
304 New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There
305 are associated changes to the protocol and clients.
307 The number of database queries per candidate match required when
308 searching has been reduced.
310 The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The
311 default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL.
313 The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw
314 access to the server's ordinary log output.
316 ** Web Interface Changes
320 When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than
321 redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets
322 feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as
323 such in the track picking screen.
325 It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back=
326 argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally
327 the trackstate lines).
331 Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms.
335 The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in
340 Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text
341 reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed
342 in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every
345 Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now
346 links to the corresponding directory.
348 More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen.
350 The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of
351 down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old
352 appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage'
353 instead (or edit the template).
357 tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and
358 recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly).
360 * Changes up to version 1.1
364 Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing.
366 In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not
367 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter.
371 The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server
374 Track IDs are more compact.
376 Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both
377 work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release.
379 Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people
380 upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to
385 Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line.
387 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs.
389 $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and
394 New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane
395 details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are
396 now properly supported in this context.
398 CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance.
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