X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/disorder/blobdiff_plain/803f6e5279ec2531f5073d351009f1e105420d25..71b90230c575ecd1d2f85f8fb22c7e875bca8d3a:/CHANGES diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index ab023a3..cb8df1a 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,12 +1,9 @@ See ChangeLog.d/* for detailed revision history. -* Changes up to version 1.6 +* Changes up to version 2.0 ** General -There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. -Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. - 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 +12,32 @@ 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. @@ -32,16 +48,19 @@ 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. -** Network Play +There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV +and FLAC. The example config file uses it. -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