X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/disorder/blobdiff_plain/63e28749e32a11987f322e7e4764c46c4976808a..e84ca2905e0e8d75dbeb53d0001b414ba956a8a6:/CHANGES diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index c95c17e..b4c0a22 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,11 +1,93 @@ -See ChangeLog.d/* for detailed revision history. +* Changes up to version 3.1 -* Changes up to version 1.6 +** Server -** General +The 'gap' directive will no longer work. It could be restored if there +is real demand. -There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. -Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. +*** Random Track Choice + +This has been completely rewritten to support new features: + - tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer + eligible for random choice + - there is a new 'weight' track preference allowing for non-uniform + track selection. See disorder(1) for details. + - there is a new configuration item replay_min defining the minimum + time before a played track can be picked at random. The default is + 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour). + +** Disobedience + +There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and +remove users or modify their settings. + +Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set +remote_userman to 'yes'. + +** Miscellaneous + +scripts/setup now honors command line options, and can set up network +play as well as the local default sound device. + +* Changes up to version 3.0.2 + +Builds --without-server should work again. + +The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value syntax it +will accept. + +Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available. + +* Changes up to version 3.0.1 + +Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better. + +* Changes up to version 3.0 + +Important! See README.upgrades when upgrading. + +** Platforms And Installation + +Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash script +in scripts/setup which will automate the setup after 'make install'. + +** Server + +Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file. + +The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only +additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file. + +The default inter-track gap is now 0s. + +How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration +command. This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with +ALSA as well as OSS. + +A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4). + +** Web Interface + +The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows +online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to +manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it +if you don't like the value it figures out). + +It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface. + +The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been +tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and +Opera 9. + +** Disobedience + +A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue +while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all +tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks. + +* Changes up to version 2.0 + +** General Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1) or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience. @@ -15,13 +97,32 @@ documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)). -** Server +Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows +the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the +latter case). -Cache slow file lookups in the server. Should help installations with -large collections and/or slow platforms. +** Disobedience -The communications protocol has changed, for the benefit of -Disobedience. +There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. +Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. + +** Web Interface + +The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From +here they can be played or their preferences changed. + +Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover +for the full name. + +** Network Play + +DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on +multiple client machines. See README.streams for details. + +** Server + +Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help +installations with large collections and/or slow platforms. The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone. Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next. @@ -32,16 +133,19 @@ The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there is now built into the server, where it can be done much more efficiently. +'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified. + A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a crash when random play was enabled has been fixed. A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random tracks kept on the queue to be controlled. -New configuration options 'speaker_command', 'sample_format' and -'sox_generation' direct the speaker process to send audio data to a -subcommand instead of straight to the sound card, for instance for -broadcasting over a network. +There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV +and FLAC. The example config file uses it. + +Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server +(and all clients) are not blocked for the duration. ** disorderfm @@ -193,7 +297,7 @@ Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state. Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now works. -Connection errors are reported more gracefuly. +Connection errors are reported more gracefully. ** Plugins