1 * Changes up to version 3.0.2
3 Builds --without-server should work again.
5 * Changes up to version 3.0.1
7 Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.
9 * Changes up to version 3.0
11 Important! See README.upgrades when upgrading.
13 ** Platforms And Installation
15 Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash script
16 in scripts/setup which will automate the setup after 'make install'.
20 Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file.
22 The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only
23 additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.
25 The default inter-track gap is now 0s.
27 How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration
28 command. This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with
31 A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).
35 The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows
36 online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to
37 manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it
38 if you don't like the value it figures out).
40 It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.
42 The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been
43 tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and
48 A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue
49 while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all
50 tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.
52 * Changes up to version 2.0
56 Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1)
57 or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience.
59 The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search
60 documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is
61 possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and
62 prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)).
64 Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows
65 the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the
70 There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
71 Feedback on the interface would be very welcome.
75 The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From
76 here they can be played or their preferences changed.
78 Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover
83 DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on
84 multiple client machines. See README.streams for details.
88 Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help
89 installations with large collections and/or slow platforms.
91 The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone.
92 Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next.
93 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable
94 playing and then scratch the current track.
96 The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there
97 is now built into the server, where it can be done much more
100 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified.
102 A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a
103 crash when random play was enabled has been fixed.
105 A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random
106 tracks kept on the queue to be controlled.
108 There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV
109 and FLAC. The example config file uses it.
111 Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server
112 (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration.
116 There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed
117 for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories.
118 It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional
121 ** Build And Configuration
123 You can control which components are built with new --with options. See
126 options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced
127 with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are
132 Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all
133 contributed in some way to this release.
135 * Changes up to version 1.5.1
139 Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks.
141 * Changes up to version 1.5
145 Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial
146 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the
147 amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded.
151 Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line
156 New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options
157 allow independent control of process priorities.
159 Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them.
162 A file descriptor was leaked for each track played.
163 The amount of a track played so far was not reported.
164 The speaker process could crash on underrun.
165 The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track.
166 Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not
168 Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken.
170 * Changes up to version 1.4
174 Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and
175 README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the
178 Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player
179 plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this.
181 When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the
182 queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc.
186 Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a
187 fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator.
189 The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail
192 You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a
193 single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the
194 time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced
195 on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences
196 from the command line.)
198 Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than
203 If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled
204 the server would exit with an error.
206 The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player
209 It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was
210 issued. This should no longer be the case.
212 The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL.
216 Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document
217 whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether
218 they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup
219 calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details.
221 * Changes up to version 1.3
225 Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3.
229 There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local
230 users. Please report successes as well as failures.
232 There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an
235 The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument.
239 The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve
242 There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile
243 to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be
244 inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support
245 locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself.
247 Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_
248 preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem.
250 The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also
251 runs a separate deadlock manager.
253 Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged.
254 This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly
255 but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players.
259 Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
261 Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
264 Connection errors are reported more gracefully.
268 Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess.
270 disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer
271 available. Instead use disorder_track_random().
273 Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected
278 disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular
279 file, rather than using stdin or stdout.
283 Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding
284 getting text encoding right.
286 * Changes up to version 1.2
288 See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version.
292 Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list.
294 When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be
295 added to the recently played list. This has been fixed.
297 Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing
300 The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single
305 New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There
306 are associated changes to the protocol and clients.
308 The number of database queries per candidate match required when
309 searching has been reduced.
311 The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The
312 default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL.
314 The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw
315 access to the server's ordinary log output.
317 ** Web Interface Changes
321 When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than
322 redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets
323 feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as
324 such in the track picking screen.
326 It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back=
327 argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally
328 the trackstate lines).
332 Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms.
336 The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in
341 Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text
342 reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed
343 in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every
346 Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now
347 links to the corresponding directory.
349 More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen.
351 The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of
352 down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old
353 appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage'
354 instead (or edit the template).
358 tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and
359 recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly).
361 * Changes up to version 1.1
365 Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing.
367 In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not
368 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter.
372 The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server
375 Track IDs are more compact.
377 Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both
378 work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release.
380 Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people
381 upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to
386 Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line.
388 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs.
390 $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and
395 New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane
396 details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are
397 now properly supported in this context.
399 CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance.
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