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IMPORTANT: you should read README.upgrades before upgrading.
+PulseAudio is now supported, if the support library is available at + build time. It is the default for client applications, reflecting its + widespread use in desktop environments.
+ +Volume setting is not currently supported when PulseAudio is in + use.
+ +Disobedience now has a menu to select the network playback API.
+ +disorder-playrtp
now selects playback API using
+ a --api
option. The old API-selection options remain
+ available but are deprecated and will be removed in the future.
RTP playback can now transmit to multiple unicast destinations, added
+ and removed on demand. This is controlled by the new rtp_mode
+ option. The motivating use case is a bridged network with high- and
+ low-capacity components. However it is may also be useful in a routed
+ network without multicast routing support.
If it's detected at configure time, a new decoder + program disorder-gstdecode and a new tracklength + plugin tracklength-gstreamer are built. These use the GStreamer + library for filetype detection, audio decoding and sample-rate conversion, + among other features. Using these, DisOrder can play any audio file + supported by GStreamer. + +
The decoder has a number of options for controlling the sample-rate and + audio format conversion, allowing various tradeoffs between quality and + processor time. (High-quality conversion can consume more processor time + than decoding, so this is potentially useful on very a small device such as + a Raspberry Pi.
+ +The GStreamer decoder can also use ReplayGain information stored in + audio files' metadata to adjust playback volume, so that tracks with very + wide dynamic range don't sound really quiet in comparison. This + information can be added using tools such as mp3gain, + vorbisgain, or metaflac. This is turned on by default if + you use the decoder; you can choose between per-album or per-track + settings, or turn it off entirely, using command-line options.
+ +The GStreamer decoder is not used by default, but it can be enabled + easily enough by dropping something like the following into the server + configuration file: +
+ player + player *.flac execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 + player *.mp2 execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 + player *.mp3 execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 + player *.ogg execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 + player *.wav execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 + + tracklength + tracklength *.flac tracklength-gstreamer + tracklength *.mp2 tracklength-gstreamer + tracklength *.mp3 tracklength-gstreamer + tracklength *.ogg tracklength-gstreamer + tracklength *.wav tracklength-gstreamer ++ + +
player
and tracklength
can now be used
+ without arguments to clear the lists, as per the documentation.Thanks to Mark Wooding and Joe Birr-Pixton.
+ +The “Manage users” option is now more reliably greyed out if + it will not work. This depends on a server change too, so it may still be + wrong if a new Disobedience is used against an old server.
+ +A .desktop file is now shipped, making Disobedience visible as + an application in freedesktop.org-compliant systems.
+Unicode support has been upgraded to Unicode 6.0.0.
+ +Client programs no longer depend on libdb.
+The following have been removed:
+ +Various minor bug fixes.
Security: Local connections can no longer create and delete users +unless they are properly authorized.
+ +