1 * Changes up to version 3.0
3 Important! See README.upgrades when upgrading.
5 ** Platforms And Installation
7 Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash script
8 in scripts/setup which will automate the setup after 'make install'.
12 Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file.
14 The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only
15 additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.
17 The default inter-track gap is now 0s.
19 How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration
20 command. This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with
23 A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).
27 The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows
28 online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to
29 manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it
30 if you don't like the value it figures out).
32 It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.
34 The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been
35 tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and
40 A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue
41 while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all
42 tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.
44 * Changes up to version 2.0
48 Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1)
49 or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience.
51 The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search
52 documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is
53 possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and
54 prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)).
56 Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows
57 the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the
62 There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
63 Feedback on the interface would be very welcome.
67 The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From
68 here they can be played or their preferences changed.
70 Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover
75 DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on
76 multiple client machines. See README.streams for details.
80 Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help
81 installations with large collections and/or slow platforms.
83 The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone.
84 Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next.
85 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable
86 playing and then scratch the current track.
88 The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there
89 is now built into the server, where it can be done much more
92 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified.
94 A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a
95 crash when random play was enabled has been fixed.
97 A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random
98 tracks kept on the queue to be controlled.
100 There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV
101 and FLAC. The example config file uses it.
103 Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server
104 (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration.
108 There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed
109 for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories.
110 It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional
113 ** Build And Configuration
115 You can control which components are built with new --with options. See
118 options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced
119 with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are
124 Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all
125 contributed in some way to this release.
127 * Changes up to version 1.5.1
131 Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks.
133 * Changes up to version 1.5
137 Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial
138 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the
139 amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded.
143 Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line
148 New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options
149 allow independent control of process priorities.
151 Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them.
154 A file descriptor was leaked for each track played.
155 The amount of a track played so far was not reported.
156 The speaker process could crash on underrun.
157 The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track.
158 Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not
160 Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken.
162 * Changes up to version 1.4
166 Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and
167 README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the
170 Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player
171 plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this.
173 When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the
174 queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc.
178 Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a
179 fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator.
181 The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail
184 You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a
185 single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the
186 time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced
187 on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences
188 from the command line.)
190 Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than
195 If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled
196 the server would exit with an error.
198 The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player
201 It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was
202 issued. This should no longer be the case.
204 The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL.
208 Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document
209 whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether
210 they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup
211 calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details.
213 * Changes up to version 1.3
217 Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3.
221 There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local
222 users. Please report successes as well as failures.
224 There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an
227 The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument.
231 The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve
234 There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile
235 to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be
236 inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support
237 locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself.
239 Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_
240 preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem.
242 The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also
243 runs a separate deadlock manager.
245 Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged.
246 This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly
247 but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players.
251 Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
253 Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
256 Connection errors are reported more gracefully.
260 Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess.
262 disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer
263 available. Instead use disorder_track_random().
265 Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected
270 disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular
271 file, rather than using stdin or stdout.
275 Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding
276 getting text encoding right.
278 * Changes up to version 1.2
280 See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version.
284 Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list.
286 When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be
287 added to the recently played list. This has been fixed.
289 Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing
292 The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single
297 New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There
298 are associated changes to the protocol and clients.
300 The number of database queries per candidate match required when
301 searching has been reduced.
303 The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The
304 default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL.
306 The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw
307 access to the server's ordinary log output.
309 ** Web Interface Changes
313 When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than
314 redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets
315 feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as
316 such in the track picking screen.
318 It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back=
319 argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally
320 the trackstate lines).
324 Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms.
328 The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in
333 Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text
334 reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed
335 in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every
338 Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now
339 links to the corresponding directory.
341 More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen.
343 The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of
344 down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old
345 appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage'
346 instead (or edit the template).
350 tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and
351 recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly).
353 * Changes up to version 1.1
357 Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing.
359 In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not
360 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter.
364 The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server
367 Track IDs are more compact.
369 Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both
370 work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release.
372 Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people
373 upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to
378 Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line.
380 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs.
382 $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and
387 New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane
388 details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are
389 now properly supported in this context.
391 CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance.
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