X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/disorder/blobdiff_plain/75db8354cc7b5c3b924d676931fcf85b112f632a..bcc46dc3615c18393955f433fbf83e1820d716e6:/CHANGES diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 92615e4..6b80fd3 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,11 +1,34 @@ -See ChangeLog.d/* for detailed revision history. +* Changes up to version 2.1 -* Changes up to version 1.6 +** Server -** General +Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file. -There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. -Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. +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. + +** 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 possibe 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. + +* 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 +38,32 @@ 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 +latte case). + +** 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. -Cache slow file lookups in the server. Should help installations with -large collections and/or slow platforms. +Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover +for the full name. -The communications protocol has changed, for the benefit of -Disobedience. +** 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. @@ -32,6 +74,8 @@ 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. @@ -41,10 +85,8 @@ tracks kept on the queue to be controlled. There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV and FLAC. The example config file uses it. -** Network Play - -DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on -multiple client machines. See README.streams for details. +Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server +(and all clients) are not blocked for the duration. ** disorderfm