| 1 | See ChangeLog.d/* for detailed revision history. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | * Changes up to version 1.6 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ** General |
| 6 | |
| 7 | There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. |
| 8 | Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1) |
| 11 | or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search |
| 14 | documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is |
| 15 | possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and |
| 16 | prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)). |
| 17 | |
| 18 | ** Server |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Cache slow file lookups in the server. Should help installations with |
| 21 | large collections and/or slow platforms. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | The communications protocol has changed, for the benefit of |
| 24 | Disobedience. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone. |
| 27 | Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next. |
| 28 | 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable |
| 29 | playing and then scratch the current track. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there |
| 32 | is now built into the server, where it can be done much more |
| 33 | efficiently. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a |
| 36 | crash when random play was enabled has been fixed. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random |
| 39 | tracks kept on the queue to be controlled. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV |
| 42 | and FLAC. The example config file uses it. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | ** Network Play |
| 45 | |
| 46 | DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on |
| 47 | multiple client machines. See README.streams for details. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | ** disorderfm |
| 50 | |
| 51 | There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed |
| 52 | for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories. |
| 53 | It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional |
| 54 | details. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | ** Build And Configuration |
| 57 | |
| 58 | You can control which components are built with new --with options. See |
| 59 | README. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced |
| 62 | with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are |
| 63 | now optional. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | ** Thanks |
| 66 | |
| 67 | Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all |
| 68 | contributed in some way to this release. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | * Changes up to version 1.5.1 |
| 71 | |
| 72 | ** Web Interface |
| 73 | |
| 74 | Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | * Changes up to version 1.5 |
| 77 | |
| 78 | ** Web Interface |
| 79 | |
| 80 | Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial |
| 81 | 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the |
| 82 | amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | ** Client |
| 85 | |
| 86 | Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line |
| 87 | client. |
| 88 | |
| 89 | ** Server |
| 90 | |
| 91 | New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options |
| 92 | allow independent control of process priorities. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them. |
| 95 | |
| 96 | Bugs fixed: |
| 97 | A file descriptor was leaked for each track played. |
| 98 | The amount of a track played so far was not reported. |
| 99 | The speaker process could crash on underrun. |
| 100 | The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track. |
| 101 | Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not |
| 102 | reliable. |
| 103 | Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken. |
| 104 | |
| 105 | * Changes up to version 1.4 |
| 106 | |
| 107 | ** General |
| 108 | |
| 109 | Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and |
| 110 | README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the |
| 111 | inter-track gap. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player |
| 114 | plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this. |
| 115 | |
| 116 | When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the |
| 117 | queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc. |
| 118 | |
| 119 | ** Web Interface |
| 120 | |
| 121 | Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a |
| 122 | fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator. |
| 123 | |
| 124 | The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail |
| 125 | of the queue. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a |
| 128 | single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the |
| 129 | time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced |
| 130 | on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences |
| 131 | from the command line.) |
| 132 | |
| 133 | Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than |
| 134 | disorder_config(5). |
| 135 | |
| 136 | ** Server |
| 137 | |
| 138 | If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled |
| 139 | the server would exit with an error. |
| 140 | |
| 141 | The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player |
| 142 | subprocesses. |
| 143 | |
| 144 | It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was |
| 145 | issued. This should no longer be the case. |
| 146 | |
| 147 | The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | ** Plugins |
| 150 | |
| 151 | Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document |
| 152 | whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether |
| 153 | they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup |
| 154 | calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details. |
| 155 | |
| 156 | * Changes up to version 1.3 |
| 157 | |
| 158 | ** Dependencies |
| 159 | |
| 160 | Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3. |
| 161 | |
| 162 | ** Client |
| 163 | |
| 164 | There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local |
| 165 | users. Please report successes as well as failures. |
| 166 | |
| 167 | There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an |
| 168 | alias. |
| 169 | |
| 170 | The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument. |
| 171 | |
| 172 | ** Server |
| 173 | |
| 174 | The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve |
| 175 | maintainability. |
| 176 | |
| 177 | There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile |
| 178 | to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be |
| 179 | inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support |
| 180 | locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself. |
| 181 | |
| 182 | Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_ |
| 183 | preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem. |
| 184 | |
| 185 | The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also |
| 186 | runs a separate deadlock manager. |
| 187 | |
| 188 | Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged. |
| 189 | This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly |
| 190 | but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players. |
| 191 | |
| 192 | ** Web Interface |
| 193 | |
| 194 | Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state. |
| 195 | |
| 196 | Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now |
| 197 | works. |
| 198 | |
| 199 | Connection errors are reported more gracefuly. |
| 200 | |
| 201 | ** Plugins |
| 202 | |
| 203 | Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess. |
| 204 | |
| 205 | disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer |
| 206 | available. Instead use disorder_track_random(). |
| 207 | |
| 208 | Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected |
| 209 | immediately. |
| 210 | |
| 211 | ** Tools |
| 212 | |
| 213 | disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular |
| 214 | file, rather than using stdin or stdout. |
| 215 | |
| 216 | ** Other |
| 217 | |
| 218 | Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding |
| 219 | getting text encoding right. |
| 220 | |
| 221 | * Changes up to version 1.2 |
| 222 | |
| 223 | See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version. |
| 224 | |
| 225 | ** Bugs Fixed |
| 226 | |
| 227 | Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list. |
| 228 | |
| 229 | When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be |
| 230 | added to the recently played list. This has been fixed. |
| 231 | |
| 232 | Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing |
| 233 | action. |
| 234 | |
| 235 | The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single |
| 236 | artist or album. |
| 237 | |
| 238 | ** Server |
| 239 | |
| 240 | New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There |
| 241 | are associated changes to the protocol and clients. |
| 242 | |
| 243 | The number of database queries per candidate match required when |
| 244 | searching has been reduced. |
| 245 | |
| 246 | The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The |
| 247 | default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL. |
| 248 | |
| 249 | The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw |
| 250 | access to the server's ordinary log output. |
| 251 | |
| 252 | ** Web Interface Changes |
| 253 | |
| 254 | *** Choosing Tracks |
| 255 | |
| 256 | When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than |
| 257 | redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets |
| 258 | feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as |
| 259 | such in the track picking screen. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back= |
| 262 | argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally |
| 263 | the trackstate lines). |
| 264 | |
| 265 | *** Search |
| 266 | |
| 267 | Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms. |
| 268 | |
| 269 | *** Syntax |
| 270 | |
| 271 | The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in |
| 272 | certain places. |
| 273 | |
| 274 | *** Miscellaneous |
| 275 | |
| 276 | Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text |
| 277 | reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed |
| 278 | in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every |
| 279 | template. |
| 280 | |
| 281 | Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now |
| 282 | links to the corresponding directory. |
| 283 | |
| 284 | More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen. |
| 285 | |
| 286 | The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of |
| 287 | down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old |
| 288 | appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage' |
| 289 | instead (or edit the template). |
| 290 | |
| 291 | ** tkdisorder |
| 292 | |
| 293 | tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and |
| 294 | recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly). |
| 295 | |
| 296 | * Changes up to version 1.1 |
| 297 | |
| 298 | ** Bugs Fixed |
| 299 | |
| 300 | Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing. |
| 301 | |
| 302 | In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not |
| 303 | 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter. |
| 304 | |
| 305 | ** Server |
| 306 | |
| 307 | The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server |
| 308 | restarts. |
| 309 | |
| 310 | Track IDs are more compact. |
| 311 | |
| 312 | Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both |
| 313 | work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release. |
| 314 | |
| 315 | Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people |
| 316 | upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to |
| 317 | 1.1.) |
| 318 | |
| 319 | ** Command Line |
| 320 | |
| 321 | Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line. |
| 322 | |
| 323 | 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs. |
| 324 | |
| 325 | $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and |
| 326 | options. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | ** Web Interface |
| 329 | |
| 330 | New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane |
| 331 | details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are |
| 332 | now properly supported in this context. |
| 333 | |
| 334 | CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance. |
| 335 | |
| 336 | Local Variables: |
| 337 | mode:outline |
| 338 | fill-column:72 |
| 339 | End: |