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66 <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
68 <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
69 href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
71 <h2>Changes up to version 5.0</h2>
79 <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X.
81 be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
82 href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
85 <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
86 should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has
87 been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
88 that bugs may have been (re-)introduced. Decoding of scratches is also
89 initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.</p>
91 <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
92 of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
94 <p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is
95 available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking
96 <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>. SoX support will be
97 removed in a future version.</p>
99 <p>The libao plugin is not built if you have libao 1.0.0 (because the
100 plugin API is broken in that version).</p>
102 <p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be
103 prepared offline and played as a unit.</p>
107 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
111 <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation.
112 Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the
113 “Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs
116 <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing and has a compact mode,
117 available from the <b>Control</b> menu.</p>
119 <p>Disobedience has a <a href="disobedience/manual/index.html">new
124 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
128 <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
129 with punctuation). (Please see <a
130 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
138 <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
139 to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
140 the man page for details.</p>
142 <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
143 under OS X (as above).</p>
151 <p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
152 (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
153 <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
154 of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
156 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
157 href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
160 <p>Various elements of the source code have been
176 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=22">#22</a></td>
177 <td>Background decoders interact badly with server reload</td>
181 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
182 <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
186 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=30">#30</a></d>
187 <td>mini disobedience interface</td>
191 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#32</a></d>
192 <td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown</td>
196 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
197 <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
201 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></d>
202 <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td>
206 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></d>
207 <td>Missing stub function</td>
211 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></d>
212 <td>Missing includes for timeval</td>
216 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></d>
217 <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td>
221 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></d>
222 <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td>
226 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></d>
227 <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td>
231 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></d>
232 <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td>
236 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=46">#46</a></d>
237 <td>Sort search results in web interface</td>
241 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></d>
242 <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td>
246 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></d>
247 <td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td>
251 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=51">#51</a></td>
252 <td>Improved speaker process robustness</td>
257 <td>“found track in no collection” messages for scratches
258 are now suppressed</td>
263 <td>Disobedience would sometimes fail to notice when a track
264 started, leading to its display getting out of date.</td>
271 <h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
275 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
279 <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
280 played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
281 various situations.</p>
283 <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
284 ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
286 <p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
287 tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
288 selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
296 <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
297 can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
298 “<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
300 <p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
301 Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
302 interface does not.</p>
304 <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
305 generated by iTunes.</p>
309 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
313 <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
315 <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
316 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
317 goal is to prohibit <a
318 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
320 <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
321 packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
324 <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
326 <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
341 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
342 <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
345 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
346 <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
353 <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
357 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
361 <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
362 then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
363 always use TCP/IP.</p>
365 <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
366 Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
367 now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
371 <h3>Documentation</h3>
375 <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
376 <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
391 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
392 <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
400 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
404 <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
409 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
413 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
417 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
421 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
422 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
425 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
426 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
427 half way through entering search terms.</li>
429 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
431 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
434 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
438 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
439 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
440 fully up to date.</p>
448 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
449 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
455 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
459 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
463 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
467 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
468 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
469 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
473 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
481 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
482 restored if there is real demand.</p>
484 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
488 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
489 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
490 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
491 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
492 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
496 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
500 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
504 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
505 eligible for random choice.</li>
507 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
508 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
510 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
511 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
512 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
514 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
515 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
521 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
525 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
529 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
530 includes links to parent directories.</li>
532 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
533 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
534 redirected to the login page.</li>
538 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
539 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
540 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
542 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
543 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
544 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
546 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
547 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
548 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
549 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
555 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
559 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
560 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
562 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
563 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
567 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
571 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
572 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
587 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
588 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
592 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
593 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
597 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
598 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
602 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
603 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
607 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
608 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
612 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
613 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
614 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
618 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
619 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
628 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
632 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
634 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
635 syntax it will accept.</p>
637 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
641 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
645 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
649 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
653 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
654 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
656 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
660 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
661 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
662 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
670 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
673 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
674 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
676 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
678 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
679 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
680 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
682 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
686 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
690 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
691 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
692 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
693 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
695 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
697 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
698 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
703 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
707 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
708 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
709 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>