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
23 The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows
24 online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to
25 manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it
26 if you don't like the value it figures out).
28 It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.
30 The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been
31 tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and
36 A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue
37 while no rtack was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all
38 tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.
40 * Changes up to version 2.0
44 Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1)
45 or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience.
47 The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search
48 documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is
49 possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and
50 prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)).
52 Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows
53 the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the
58 There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
59 Feedback on the interface would be very welcome.
63 The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From
64 here they can be played or their preferences changed.
66 Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover
71 DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on
72 multiple client machines. See README.streams for details.
76 Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help
77 installations with large collections and/or slow platforms.
79 The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone.
80 Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next.
81 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable
82 playing and then scratch the current track.
84 The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there
85 is now built into the server, where it can be done much more
88 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified.
90 A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a
91 crash when random play was enabled has been fixed.
93 A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random
94 tracks kept on the queue to be controlled.
96 There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV
97 and FLAC. The example config file uses it.
99 Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server
100 (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration.
104 There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed
105 for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories.
106 It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional
109 ** Build And Configuration
111 You can control which components are built with new --with options. See
114 options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced
115 with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are
120 Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all
121 contributed in some way to this release.
123 * Changes up to version 1.5.1
127 Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks.
129 * Changes up to version 1.5
133 Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial
134 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the
135 amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded.
139 Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line
144 New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options
145 allow independent control of process priorities.
147 Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them.
150 A file descriptor was leaked for each track played.
151 The amount of a track played so far was not reported.
152 The speaker process could crash on underrun.
153 The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track.
154 Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not
156 Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken.
158 * Changes up to version 1.4
162 Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and
163 README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the
166 Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player
167 plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this.
169 When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the
170 queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc.
174 Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a
175 fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator.
177 The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail
180 You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a
181 single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the
182 time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced
183 on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences
184 from the command line.)
186 Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than
191 If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled
192 the server would exit with an error.
194 The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player
197 It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was
198 issued. This should no longer be the case.
200 The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL.
204 Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document
205 whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether
206 they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup
207 calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details.
209 * Changes up to version 1.3
213 Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3.
217 There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local
218 users. Please report successes as well as failures.
220 There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an
223 The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument.
227 The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve
230 There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile
231 to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be
232 inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support
233 locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself.
235 Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_
236 preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem.
238 The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also
239 runs a separate deadlock manager.
241 Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged.
242 This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly
243 but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players.
247 Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
249 Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
252 Connection errors are reported more gracefuly.
256 Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess.
258 disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer
259 available. Instead use disorder_track_random().
261 Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected
266 disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular
267 file, rather than using stdin or stdout.
271 Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding
272 getting text encoding right.
274 * Changes up to version 1.2
276 See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version.
280 Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list.
282 When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be
283 added to the recently played list. This has been fixed.
285 Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing
288 The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single
293 New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There
294 are associated changes to the protocol and clients.
296 The number of database queries per candidate match required when
297 searching has been reduced.
299 The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The
300 default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL.
302 The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw
303 access to the server's ordinary log output.
305 ** Web Interface Changes
309 When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than
310 redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets
311 feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as
312 such in the track picking screen.
314 It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back=
315 argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally
316 the trackstate lines).
320 Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms.
324 The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in
329 Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text
330 reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed
331 in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every
334 Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now
335 links to the corresponding directory.
337 More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen.
339 The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of
340 down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old
341 appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage'
342 instead (or edit the template).
346 tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and
347 recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly).
349 * Changes up to version 1.1
353 Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing.
355 In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not
356 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter.
360 The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server
363 Track IDs are more compact.
365 Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both
366 work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release.
368 Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people
369 upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to
374 Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line.
376 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs.
378 $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and
383 New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane
384 details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are
385 now properly supported in this context.
387 CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance.
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