This file documents recent user-visible changes to DisOrder.
-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.
+ +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 server will now automatically initiate a rescan when a filesystem is + mounted or unmounted. (Use the mount_rescan option if you want to + suppress this behavior.)
+ +The server takes care not to hold audio files open unnecessarily, so + that devices can be unmounted even if tracks from them are currently being + buffered.
+ +You can now edit the required-tags and prohibited-tags + global preferences in Disobedience + (issue + #29).
+ +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.
+ +The Debian package now includes a cronjob that backs up the database + daily. See /etc/cron.d/disorder. You can put settings + in /etc/default/disorder to turn this off or to control how long + the backups are kept for.
+ +The disorder-dump -r option was broken.
+ +disorder-dump now gets permissions right automatically (issue + #56).
+ +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.
+ +The login form now indicates that a cookie will be set.
+ +The sense of the Control → Playing menu item was fixed.
+ +The device configuration option and --device option - to disorder-playrtp now work. Devices may be specified either - by UID or name. Fixes The device configuration option now works under OS X. + Devices may + be specified either by UID or name. Fixes Issue 27.
+ +Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP + should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has + been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible + that bugs may have been (re-)introduced. Decoding of scratches is also + initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.
+ +The command backend now (optionally) sends silence instead + of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.
+ +If libsamplerate is + available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking + SoX. SoX support will be + removed in a future version.
+ +The libao plugin has been removed, because the plugin API is not + usable in libao 1.0.0.
+ +Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be + prepared offline and played as a unit.
+ +Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation. + Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the + “Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs + to the queue.
+ +Disobedience now supports playlist editing and has a compact mode, + available from the Control menu.
+ +Disobedience has a new + manual.
+ +Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end + with punctuation). (Please see README.upgrades for more about this.)
+ +There is a new --command option which allows the RTP player + to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See + the man page for details.
+ +The --device option to disorder-playrtp now works + under OS X (as above).
IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications + (listen, connect etc) can now be prefixed with + -4 or -6 to force use + of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.
+ +Unicode support has been upgraded to Unicode + 5.1.0.
+ +Various elements of the source code have been + rationalized.
+ +Important! See README.upgrades when upgrading.
+ href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades when upgrading.