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1 | * Changes up to version 3.1 |
2 | ||
3 | ** Server | |
4 | ||
5 | The 'gap' directive will no longer work. It could be restored if there | |
6 | is real demand. | |
7 | ||
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8 | *** Random Track Choice |
9 | ||
10 | This has been completely rewritten to support new features: | |
11 | - tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer | |
12 | eligible for random choice | |
13 | - there is a new configuration item replay_min defining the minimum | |
14 | time before a played track can be picked at random. The default is | |
15 | 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour). | |
16 | ||
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17 | * Changes up to version 3.0 |
18 | ||
19 | Important! See README.upgrades when upgrading. | |
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21 | ** Platforms And Installation |
22 | ||
23 | Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash script | |
24 | in scripts/setup which will automate the setup after 'make install'. | |
25 | ||
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26 | ** Server |
27 | ||
28 | Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file. | |
29 | ||
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30 | The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only |
31 | additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file. | |
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33 | The default inter-track gap is now 0s. |
34 | ||
ad884aa5 | 35 | How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration |
36 | command. This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with | |
37 | ALSA as well as OSS. | |
38 | ||
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39 | A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4). |
40 | ||
d84bf422 | 41 | ** Web Interface |
42 | ||
43 | The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows | |
b64c2805 | 44 | online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to |
45 | manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it | |
46 | if you don't like the value it figures out). | |
d84bf422 | 47 | |
b18d2a34 | 48 | It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface. |
ad884aa5 | 49 | |
50 | The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been | |
51 | tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and | |
52 | Opera 9. | |
53 | ||
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54 | ** Disobedience |
55 | ||
56 | A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue | |
413799e3 | 57 | while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all |
fb009628 | 58 | tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks. |
8137fb3d | 59 | |
92afc09e | 60 | * Changes up to version 2.0 |
460b9539 | 61 | |
62 | ** General | |
63 | ||
460b9539 | 64 | Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1) |
65 | or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience. | |
66 | ||
67 | The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search | |
68 | documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is | |
69 | possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and | |
70 | prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)). | |
71 | ||
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72 | Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows |
73 | the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the | |
413799e3 | 74 | latter case). |
813070ec | 75 | |
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76 | ** Disobedience |
77 | ||
78 | There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. | |
79 | Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. | |
80 | ||
81 | ** Web Interface | |
82 | ||
83 | The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From | |
84 | here they can be played or their preferences changed. | |
85 | ||
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86 | Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover |
87 | for the full name. | |
88 | ||
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89 | ** Network Play |
90 | ||
91 | DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on | |
92 | multiple client machines. See README.streams for details. | |
93 | ||
460b9539 | 94 | ** Server |
95 | ||
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96 | Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help |
97 | installations with large collections and/or slow platforms. | |
460b9539 | 98 | |
99 | The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone. | |
100 | Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next. | |
101 | 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable | |
102 | playing and then scratch the current track. | |
103 | ||
104 | The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there | |
105 | is now built into the server, where it can be done much more | |
106 | efficiently. | |
107 | ||
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108 | 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified. |
109 | ||
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110 | A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a |
111 | crash when random play was enabled has been fixed. | |
112 | ||
63e28749 | 113 | A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random |
114 | tracks kept on the queue to be controlled. | |
115 | ||
75db8354 | 116 | There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV |
117 | and FLAC. The example config file uses it. | |
ce6c36be | 118 | |
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119 | Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server |
120 | (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration. | |
121 | ||
460b9539 | 122 | ** disorderfm |
123 | ||
124 | There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed | |
125 | for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories. | |
126 | It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional | |
127 | details. | |
128 | ||
129 | ** Build And Configuration | |
130 | ||
131 | You can control which components are built with new --with options. See | |
132 | README. | |
133 | ||
134 | options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced | |
135 | with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are | |
136 | now optional. | |
137 | ||
63e28749 | 138 | ** Thanks |
139 | ||
140 | Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all | |
141 | contributed in some way to this release. | |
142 | ||
460b9539 | 143 | * Changes up to version 1.5.1 |
144 | ||
145 | ** Web Interface | |
146 | ||
147 | Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks. | |
148 | ||
149 | * Changes up to version 1.5 | |
150 | ||
151 | ** Web Interface | |
152 | ||
153 | Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial | |
154 | 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the | |
155 | amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded. | |
156 | ||
157 | ** Client | |
158 | ||
159 | Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line | |
160 | client. | |
161 | ||
162 | ** Server | |
163 | ||
164 | New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options | |
165 | allow independent control of process priorities. | |
166 | ||
167 | Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them. | |
168 | ||
169 | Bugs fixed: | |
170 | A file descriptor was leaked for each track played. | |
171 | The amount of a track played so far was not reported. | |
172 | The speaker process could crash on underrun. | |
173 | The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track. | |
174 | Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not | |
175 | reliable. | |
176 | Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken. | |
177 | ||
178 | * Changes up to version 1.4 | |
179 | ||
180 | ** General | |
181 | ||
182 | Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and | |
183 | README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the | |
184 | inter-track gap. | |
185 | ||
186 | Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player | |
187 | plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this. | |
188 | ||
189 | When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the | |
190 | queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc. | |
191 | ||
192 | ** Web Interface | |
193 | ||
194 | Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a | |
195 | fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator. | |
196 | ||
197 | The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail | |
198 | of the queue. | |
199 | ||
200 | You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a | |
201 | single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the | |
202 | time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced | |
203 | on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences | |
204 | from the command line.) | |
205 | ||
206 | Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than | |
207 | disorder_config(5). | |
208 | ||
209 | ** Server | |
210 | ||
211 | If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled | |
212 | the server would exit with an error. | |
213 | ||
214 | The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player | |
215 | subprocesses. | |
216 | ||
217 | It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was | |
218 | issued. This should no longer be the case. | |
219 | ||
220 | The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL. | |
221 | ||
222 | ** Plugins | |
223 | ||
224 | Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document | |
225 | whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether | |
226 | they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup | |
227 | calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details. | |
228 | ||
229 | * Changes up to version 1.3 | |
230 | ||
231 | ** Dependencies | |
232 | ||
233 | Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3. | |
234 | ||
235 | ** Client | |
236 | ||
237 | There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local | |
238 | users. Please report successes as well as failures. | |
239 | ||
240 | There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an | |
241 | alias. | |
242 | ||
243 | The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument. | |
244 | ||
245 | ** Server | |
246 | ||
247 | The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve | |
248 | maintainability. | |
249 | ||
250 | There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile | |
251 | to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be | |
252 | inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support | |
253 | locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself. | |
254 | ||
255 | Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_ | |
256 | preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem. | |
257 | ||
258 | The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also | |
259 | runs a separate deadlock manager. | |
260 | ||
261 | Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged. | |
262 | This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly | |
263 | but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players. | |
264 | ||
265 | ** Web Interface | |
266 | ||
267 | Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state. | |
268 | ||
269 | Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now | |
270 | works. | |
271 | ||
413799e3 | 272 | Connection errors are reported more gracefully. |
460b9539 | 273 | |
274 | ** Plugins | |
275 | ||
276 | Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess. | |
277 | ||
278 | disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer | |
279 | available. Instead use disorder_track_random(). | |
280 | ||
281 | Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected | |
282 | immediately. | |
283 | ||
284 | ** Tools | |
285 | ||
286 | disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular | |
287 | file, rather than using stdin or stdout. | |
288 | ||
289 | ** Other | |
290 | ||
291 | Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding | |
292 | getting text encoding right. | |
293 | ||
294 | * Changes up to version 1.2 | |
295 | ||
296 | See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version. | |
297 | ||
298 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
299 | ||
300 | Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list. | |
301 | ||
302 | When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be | |
303 | added to the recently played list. This has been fixed. | |
304 | ||
305 | Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing | |
306 | action. | |
307 | ||
308 | The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single | |
309 | artist or album. | |
310 | ||
311 | ** Server | |
312 | ||
313 | New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There | |
314 | are associated changes to the protocol and clients. | |
315 | ||
316 | The number of database queries per candidate match required when | |
317 | searching has been reduced. | |
318 | ||
319 | The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The | |
320 | default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL. | |
321 | ||
322 | The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw | |
323 | access to the server's ordinary log output. | |
324 | ||
325 | ** Web Interface Changes | |
326 | ||
327 | *** Choosing Tracks | |
328 | ||
329 | When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than | |
330 | redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets | |
331 | feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as | |
332 | such in the track picking screen. | |
333 | ||
334 | It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back= | |
335 | argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally | |
336 | the trackstate lines). | |
337 | ||
338 | *** Search | |
339 | ||
340 | Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms. | |
341 | ||
342 | *** Syntax | |
343 | ||
344 | The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in | |
345 | certain places. | |
346 | ||
347 | *** Miscellaneous | |
348 | ||
349 | Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text | |
350 | reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed | |
351 | in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every | |
352 | template. | |
353 | ||
354 | Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now | |
355 | links to the corresponding directory. | |
356 | ||
357 | More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen. | |
358 | ||
359 | The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of | |
360 | down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old | |
361 | appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage' | |
362 | instead (or edit the template). | |
363 | ||
364 | ** tkdisorder | |
365 | ||
366 | tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and | |
367 | recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly). | |
368 | ||
369 | * Changes up to version 1.1 | |
370 | ||
371 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
372 | ||
373 | Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing. | |
374 | ||
375 | In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not | |
376 | 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter. | |
377 | ||
378 | ** Server | |
379 | ||
380 | The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server | |
381 | restarts. | |
382 | ||
383 | Track IDs are more compact. | |
384 | ||
385 | Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both | |
386 | work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release. | |
387 | ||
388 | Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people | |
389 | upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to | |
390 | 1.1.) | |
391 | ||
392 | ** Command Line | |
393 | ||
394 | Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line. | |
395 | ||
396 | 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs. | |
397 | ||
398 | $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and | |
399 | options. | |
400 | ||
401 | ** Web Interface | |
402 | ||
403 | New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane | |
404 | details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are | |
405 | now properly supported in this context. | |
406 | ||
407 | CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance. | |
408 | ||
409 | Local Variables: | |
410 | mode:outline | |
411 | fill-column:72 | |
412 | End: |