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| 9 | <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1> |
| 10 | |
| 11 | <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a |
| 12 | href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p> |
| 13 | |
| 14 | <p><b>IMPORTANT</b>: you should read <a |
| 15 | href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> before upgrading.</p> |
| 16 | |
| 17 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.2</h2> |
| 18 | |
| 19 | <div class=section> |
| 20 | |
| 21 | <h3>PulseAudio Support</h3> |
| 22 | |
| 23 | <div class=section> |
| 24 | |
| 25 | <p>PulseAudio is now supported, if the support library is available at |
| 26 | build time. It is the default for client applications, reflecting its |
| 27 | widespread use in desktop environments.</p> |
| 28 | |
| 29 | <p>Volume setting is not currently supported when PulseAudio is in |
| 30 | use.</p> |
| 31 | |
| 32 | </div> |
| 33 | |
| 34 | <h3>Changes To RTP Support</h3> |
| 35 | |
| 36 | <div class=section> |
| 37 | |
| 38 | <p>Disobedience now has a menu to select the network playback API.</p> |
| 39 | |
| 40 | <p><code>disorder-playrtp</code> now selects playback API using |
| 41 | a <code>--api</code> option. The old API-selection options remain |
| 42 | available but are deprecated and will be removed in the future.</p> |
| 43 | |
| 44 | <p>RTP playback can now transmit to multiple unicast destinations, added |
| 45 | and removed on demand. This is controlled by the new <code>rtp_mode</code> |
| 46 | option. The motivating use case is a bridged network with high- and |
| 47 | low-capacity components. However it is may also be useful in a routed |
| 48 | network without multicast routing support.</p> |
| 49 | |
| 50 | </div> |
| 51 | |
| 52 | <h3>GStreamer support</h3> |
| 53 | |
| 54 | <div class=section> |
| 55 | |
| 56 | <p>If it's detected at <tt>configure</tt> time, a new decoder |
| 57 | program <tt>disorder-gstdecode</tt> and a new tracklength |
| 58 | plugin <tt>tracklength-gstreamer</tt> are built. These use the GStreamer |
| 59 | library for filetype detection, audio decoding and sample-rate conversion, |
| 60 | among other features. Using these, DisOrder can play any audio file |
| 61 | supported by GStreamer. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | <p>The decoder has a number of options for controlling the sample-rate and |
| 64 | audio format conversion, allowing various tradeoffs between quality and |
| 65 | processor time. (High-quality conversion can consume more processor time |
| 66 | than decoding, so this is potentially useful on very a small device such as |
| 67 | a Raspberry Pi.</p> |
| 68 | |
| 69 | <p>The GStreamer decoder can also use ReplayGain information stored in |
| 70 | audio files' metadata to adjust playback volume, so that tracks with very |
| 71 | wide dynamic range don't sound really quiet in comparison. This |
| 72 | information can be added using tools such as <tt>mp3gain</tt>, |
| 73 | <tt>vorbisgain</tt>, or <tt>metaflac</tt>. This is turned on by default if |
| 74 | you use the decoder; you can choose between per-album or per-track |
| 75 | settings, or turn it off entirely, using command-line options.</p> |
| 76 | |
| 77 | <p>The GStreamer decoder is not used by default, but it can be enabled |
| 78 | easily enough by dropping something like the following into the server |
| 79 | configuration file: |
| 80 | <pre> |
| 81 | player |
| 82 | player *.flac execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 |
| 83 | player *.mp2 execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 |
| 84 | player *.mp3 execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 |
| 85 | player *.ogg execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 |
| 86 | player *.wav execraw /usr/sbin/disorder-gstdecode -ralbum -f-8.0 |
| 87 | |
| 88 | tracklength |
| 89 | tracklength *.flac tracklength-gstreamer |
| 90 | tracklength *.mp2 tracklength-gstreamer |
| 91 | tracklength *.mp3 tracklength-gstreamer |
| 92 | tracklength *.ogg tracklength-gstreamer |
| 93 | tracklength *.wav tracklength-gstreamer |
| 94 | </pre> |
| 95 | </p> |
| 96 | |
| 97 | <h3>Bug fixes</h3> |
| 98 | |
| 99 | <div class=section> |
| 100 | |
| 101 | <ul> |
| 102 | <li>The CGI program now checks user passwords even when it runs as the |
| 103 | main jukebox user(!).</li> |
| 104 | |
| 105 | <li>Disobedience doesn't crash when search terms change under its |
| 106 | feet.</li> |
| 107 | |
| 108 | <li>The CGI program doesn't crash on some POST requests. |
| 109 | </ul> |
| 110 | |
| 111 | </div> |
| 112 | |
| 113 | </div> |
| 114 | |
| 115 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.1.1</h2> |
| 116 | |
| 117 | <div class=section> |
| 118 | |
| 119 | <h3>Bug fixes</h3> |
| 120 | |
| 121 | <div class=section> |
| 122 | |
| 123 | <ul> |
| 124 | <li><code>player</code> and <code>tracklength</code> can now be used |
| 125 | without arguments to clear the lists, as per the documentation.</li> |
| 126 | |
| 127 | <li>Tracks without a player are forgotten upon rescan.</li> |
| 128 | |
| 129 | <li>The speaker process avoids splitting frames.</li> |
| 130 | </ul> |
| 131 | |
| 132 | <p>Thanks to Mark Wooding and Joe Birr-Pixton.</p> |
| 133 | |
| 134 | </div> |
| 135 | |
| 136 | </div> |
| 137 | |
| 138 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.1</h2> |
| 139 | |
| 140 | <div class=section> |
| 141 | |
| 142 | <h3>Removable Device Support</h3> |
| 143 | |
| 144 | <div class=section> |
| 145 | |
| 146 | <p>The server will now automatically initiate a rescan when a filesystem is |
| 147 | mounted or unmounted. (Use the <tt>mount_rescan</tt> option if you want to |
| 148 | suppress this behavior.)</p> |
| 149 | |
| 150 | <p>The server takes care not to hold audio files open unnecessarily, so |
| 151 | that devices can be unmounted even if tracks from them are currently being |
| 152 | buffered.</p> |
| 153 | |
| 154 | </div> |
| 155 | |
| 156 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 157 | |
| 158 | <div class=section> |
| 159 | |
| 160 | <p>You can now edit the <tt>required-tags</tt> and <tt>prohibited-tags</tt> |
| 161 | global preferences in Disobedience |
| 162 | (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=29">issue |
| 163 | #29</a>).</p> |
| 164 | |
| 165 | <p>The “Manage users” option is now more reliably greyed out if |
| 166 | it will not work. This depends on a server change too, so it may still be |
| 167 | wrong if a new Disobedience is used against an old server.</p> |
| 168 | |
| 169 | <p>A <tt>.desktop</tt> file is now shipped, making Disobedience visible as |
| 170 | an application in freedesktop.org-compliant systems.</p> |
| 171 | |
| 172 | </div> |
| 173 | |
| 174 | <h3>Backups</h3> |
| 175 | |
| 176 | <div class=section> |
| 177 | |
| 178 | <p>The Debian package now includes a cronjob that backs up the database |
| 179 | daily. See <tt>/etc/cron.d/disorder</tt>. You can put settings |
| 180 | in <tt>/etc/default/disorder</tt> to turn this off or to control how long |
| 181 | the backups are kept for.</p> |
| 182 | |
| 183 | <p>The <tt>disorder-dump -r</tt> option was broken.</p> |
| 184 | |
| 185 | <p><tt>disorder-dump</tt> now gets permissions right automatically (<a |
| 186 | href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=56">issue |
| 187 | #56</a>).</p> |
| 188 | |
| 189 | </div> |
| 190 | |
| 191 | <h3>General</h3> |
| 192 | |
| 193 | <div class=section> |
| 194 | |
| 195 | <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a |
| 196 | href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/">Unicode |
| 197 | 6.0.0</a>.</p> |
| 198 | |
| 199 | <p>Client programs no longer depend on libdb.</p> |
| 200 | |
| 201 | <p>The following have been removed:</p> |
| 202 | |
| 203 | <ul> |
| 204 | |
| 205 | <li>The <tt>allow</tt>, <tt>gap</tt>, <tt>lock</tt>, <tt>prefsync</tt>, |
| 206 | <tt>restrict</tt>, <tt>trust</tt> configuration commands. If they still |
| 207 | appear in your configuration file then the server will not start.</li> |
| 208 | |
| 209 | <li>The <tt>columns</tt> web interface option. It will generate an |
| 210 | message in your error log but otherwise be ignored.</li> |
| 211 | |
| 212 | <li>The <tt>--wait-for-device</tt> player option. If it still appears in |
| 213 | any player commands, they will not work.</li> |
| 214 | |
| 215 | <li>Support for automatically importing pre-3.0 users.</li> |
| 216 | |
| 217 | </ul> |
| 218 | |
| 219 | <p>Various minor bug fixes.</p> |
| 220 | |
| 221 | </div> |
| 222 | |
| 223 | </div> |
| 224 | |
| 225 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.3</h2> |
| 226 | |
| 227 | <div class=section> |
| 228 | |
| 229 | <p><b>Security</b>: Local connections can no longer create and delete users |
| 230 | unless they are properly authorized.</p> |
| 231 | |
| 232 | </div> |
| 233 | |
| 234 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.2</h2> |
| 235 | |
| 236 | <div class=section> |
| 237 | |
| 238 | <p>The login form now indicates that a cookie will be set.</p> |
| 239 | |
| 240 | </div> |
| 241 | |
| 242 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.0.1</h2> |
| 243 | |
| 244 | <div class=section> |
| 245 | |
| 246 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 247 | |
| 248 | <div class=section> |
| 249 | |
| 250 | <p>The sense of the Control → Playing menu item was fixed.</p> |
| 251 | |
| 252 | </div> |
| 253 | |
| 254 | </div> |
| 255 | |
| 256 | <h2>Changes up to version 5.0</h2> |
| 257 | |
| 258 | <div class=section> |
| 259 | |
| 260 | <h3>Server</h3> |
| 261 | |
| 262 | <div class=section> |
| 263 | |
| 264 | <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option now works under OS X. |
| 265 | Devices may |
| 266 | be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a |
| 267 | href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue |
| 268 | 27</a>.</p> |
| 269 | |
| 270 | <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP |
| 271 | should be a bit lower. Note though that all the sound output code has |
| 272 | been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible |
| 273 | that bugs may have been (re-)introduced. Decoding of scratches is also |
| 274 | initiated ahead of time, giving more reliable playback.</p> |
| 275 | |
| 276 | <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead |
| 277 | of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p> |
| 278 | |
| 279 | <p>If <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</a> is |
| 280 | available at build time then that will be used instead of invoking |
| 281 | <a href="http://sox.sourceforge.net/">SoX</a>. SoX support will be |
| 282 | removed in a future version.</p> |
| 283 | |
| 284 | <p>The libao plugin has been removed, because the plugin API is not |
| 285 | usable in libao 1.0.0.</p> |
| 286 | |
| 287 | <p>Playlists are now supported. These allow a collection of tracks to be |
| 288 | prepared offline and played as a unit.</p> |
| 289 | |
| 290 | </div> |
| 291 | |
| 292 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 293 | |
| 294 | <div class=section> |
| 295 | |
| 296 | <p>Multiple tracks can now be dragged in the queue in a single operation. |
| 297 | Furthermore, it is now possible to drag tracks from the |
| 298 | “Recent”, “Added” and “Choose” tabs |
| 299 | to the queue.</p> |
| 300 | |
| 301 | <p>Disobedience now supports playlist editing and has a compact mode, |
| 302 | available from the <b>Control</b> menu.</p> |
| 303 | |
| 304 | <p>Disobedience has a <a href="disobedience/manual/index.html">new |
| 305 | manual</a>.</p> |
| 306 | |
| 307 | </div> |
| 308 | |
| 309 | <h3>Web Interface</h3> |
| 310 | |
| 311 | <div class=section> |
| 312 | |
| 313 | <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end |
| 314 | with punctuation). (Please see <a |
| 315 | href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p> |
| 316 | |
| 317 | </div> |
| 318 | |
| 319 | <h3>RTP Player</h3> |
| 320 | |
| 321 | <div class=section> |
| 322 | |
| 323 | <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player |
| 324 | to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See |
| 325 | the man page for details.</p> |
| 326 | |
| 327 | <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works |
| 328 | under OS X (as above).</p> |
| 329 | |
| 330 | </div> |
| 331 | |
| 332 | <h3>General</h3> |
| 333 | |
| 334 | <div class=section> |
| 335 | |
| 336 | <p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications |
| 337 | (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with |
| 338 | <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use |
| 339 | of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p> |
| 340 | |
| 341 | <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a |
| 342 | href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode |
| 343 | 5.1.0</a>.</p> |
| 344 | |
| 345 | <p>Various elements of the source code have been |
| 346 | rationalized.</p> |
| 347 | |
| 348 | </div> |
| 349 | |
| 350 | <h3>Bugs fixed</h3> |
| 351 | |
| 352 | <div class=section> |
| 353 | |
| 354 | <table class=bugs> |
| 355 | <tr> |
| 356 | <th>ID</th> |
| 357 | <th>Description</th> |
| 358 | </tr> |
| 359 | |
| 360 | <tr> |
| 361 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=22">#22</a></td> |
| 362 | <td>Background decoders interact badly with server reload</td> |
| 363 | </tr> |
| 364 | |
| 365 | <tr> |
| 366 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td> |
| 367 | <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td> |
| 368 | </tr> |
| 369 | |
| 370 | <tr> |
| 371 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=30">#30</a></td> |
| 372 | <td>mini disobedience interface</td> |
| 373 | </tr> |
| 374 | |
| 375 | <tr> |
| 376 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=32">#32</a></td> |
| 377 | <td>Excessively verbose log chatter on shutdown</td> |
| 378 | </tr> |
| 379 | |
| 380 | <tr> |
| 381 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></td> |
| 382 | <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td> |
| 383 | </tr> |
| 384 | |
| 385 | <tr> |
| 386 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=39">#39</a></td> |
| 387 | <td>Double bind() non-multicast AF_INET</td> |
| 388 | </tr> |
| 389 | |
| 390 | <tr> |
| 391 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=40">#40</a></td> |
| 392 | <td>Missing stub function</td> |
| 393 | </tr> |
| 394 | |
| 395 | <tr> |
| 396 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=41">#41</a></td> |
| 397 | <td>Missing includes for timeval</td> |
| 398 | </tr> |
| 399 | |
| 400 | <tr> |
| 401 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=42">#42</a></td> |
| 402 | <td>syntax error in empeg_host section</td> |
| 403 | </tr> |
| 404 | |
| 405 | <tr> |
| 406 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=43">#43</a></td> |
| 407 | <td>decoder segfault with FLAC 1.2.1</td> |
| 408 | </tr> |
| 409 | |
| 410 | <tr> |
| 411 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=44">#44</a></td> |
| 412 | <td>gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu12 SUYB patch</td> |
| 413 | </tr> |
| 414 | |
| 415 | <tr> |
| 416 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=45">#45</a></td> |
| 417 | <td>disobedience doesn't configure its back end</td> |
| 418 | </tr> |
| 419 | |
| 420 | <tr> |
| 421 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=46">#46</a></td> |
| 422 | <td>Sort search results in web interface</td> |
| 423 | </tr> |
| 424 | |
| 425 | <tr> |
| 426 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=48">#48</a></td> |
| 427 | <td>build-time dependency on <tt>oggdec</tt> removed</td> |
| 428 | </tr> |
| 429 | |
| 430 | <tr> |
| 431 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=49">#49</a></td> |
| 432 | <td>Disobedience's 'When' column gets out of date</td> |
| 433 | </tr> |
| 434 | |
| 435 | <tr> |
| 436 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=51">#51</a></td> |
| 437 | <td>Improved speaker process robustness</td> |
| 438 | </tr> |
| 439 | |
| 440 | <tr> |
| 441 | <td>(none)</td> |
| 442 | <td>“found track in no collection” messages for scratches |
| 443 | are now suppressed</td> |
| 444 | </tr> |
| 445 | |
| 446 | <tr> |
| 447 | <td>(none)</td> |
| 448 | <td>Disobedience would sometimes fail to notice when a track |
| 449 | started, leading to its display getting out of date.</td> |
| 450 | </tr> |
| 451 | |
| 452 | </table> |
| 453 | </div> |
| 454 | </div> |
| 455 | |
| 456 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2> |
| 457 | |
| 458 | <div class=section> |
| 459 | |
| 460 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 461 | |
| 462 | <div class=section> |
| 463 | |
| 464 | <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had |
| 465 | played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in |
| 466 | various situations.</p> |
| 467 | |
| 468 | <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful |
| 469 | ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p> |
| 470 | |
| 471 | <p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose |
| 472 | tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which |
| 473 | selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p> |
| 474 | |
| 475 | </div> |
| 476 | |
| 477 | <h3>Server</h3> |
| 478 | |
| 479 | <div class=section> |
| 480 | |
| 481 | <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You |
| 482 | can put it back to the old very neophilic value with |
| 483 | “<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p> |
| 484 | |
| 485 | <p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks. |
| 486 | Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web |
| 487 | interface does not.</p> |
| 488 | |
| 489 | <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames |
| 490 | generated by iTunes.</p> |
| 491 | |
| 492 | </div> |
| 493 | |
| 494 | <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> |
| 495 | |
| 496 | <div class=section> |
| 497 | |
| 498 | <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p> |
| 499 | |
| 500 | <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a |
| 501 | href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main |
| 502 | goal is to prohibit <a |
| 503 | href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p> |
| 504 | |
| 505 | <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+ |
| 506 | packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian |
| 507 | packaging.</p> |
| 508 | |
| 509 | <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p> |
| 510 | |
| 511 | <p>There are various minor fixes.</p> |
| 512 | |
| 513 | </div> |
| 514 | |
| 515 | <h3>Bugs fixed</h3> |
| 516 | |
| 517 | <div class=section> |
| 518 | |
| 519 | <table class=bugs> |
| 520 | <tr> |
| 521 | <th>ID</th> |
| 522 | <th>Description</th> |
| 523 | </tr> |
| 524 | |
| 525 | <tr> |
| 526 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td> |
| 527 | <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td> |
| 528 | </tr> |
| 529 | <tr> |
| 530 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td> |
| 531 | <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td> |
| 532 | </tr> |
| 533 | </table> |
| 534 | |
| 535 | </div> |
| 536 | </div> |
| 537 | |
| 538 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2> |
| 539 | |
| 540 | <div class=section> |
| 541 | |
| 542 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 543 | |
| 544 | <div class=section> |
| 545 | |
| 546 | <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off |
| 547 | then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would |
| 548 | always use TCP/IP.</p> |
| 549 | |
| 550 | <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue. |
| 551 | Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return |
| 552 | now works in the login and properties windows.</p> |
| 553 | |
| 554 | </div> |
| 555 | |
| 556 | <h3>Documentation</h3> |
| 557 | |
| 558 | <div class=section> |
| 559 | |
| 560 | <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new |
| 561 | <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p> |
| 562 | |
| 563 | </div> |
| 564 | |
| 565 | <h3>Bugs fixed</h3> |
| 566 | |
| 567 | <div class=section> |
| 568 | |
| 569 | <table class=bugs> |
| 570 | <tr> |
| 571 | <th>ID</th> |
| 572 | <th>Description</th> |
| 573 | </tr> |
| 574 | |
| 575 | <tr> |
| 576 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td> |
| 577 | <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td> |
| 578 | </tr> |
| 579 | </table> |
| 580 | |
| 581 | </div> |
| 582 | </div> |
| 583 | |
| 584 | |
| 585 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2> |
| 586 | |
| 587 | <div class=section> |
| 588 | |
| 589 | <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged |
| 590 | in.</p> |
| 591 | |
| 592 | </div> |
| 593 | |
| 594 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2> |
| 595 | |
| 596 | <div class=section> |
| 597 | |
| 598 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 599 | |
| 600 | <div class=section> |
| 601 | |
| 602 | <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p> |
| 603 | |
| 604 | <ul> |
| 605 | |
| 606 | <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in |
| 607 | greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+ |
| 608 | applications.</li> |
| 609 | |
| 610 | <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation |
| 611 | of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're |
| 612 | half way through entering search terms.</li> |
| 613 | |
| 614 | <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li> |
| 615 | |
| 616 | <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't |
| 617 | be used.</li> |
| 618 | |
| 619 | <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li> |
| 620 | |
| 621 | </ul> |
| 622 | |
| 623 | <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to |
| 624 | a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server |
| 625 | fully up to date.</p> |
| 626 | |
| 627 | </div> |
| 628 | |
| 629 | <h3>Server</h3> |
| 630 | |
| 631 | <div class=section> |
| 632 | |
| 633 | <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is |
| 634 | now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous |
| 635 | behaviour).</p> |
| 636 | |
| 637 | </div> |
| 638 | </div> |
| 639 | |
| 640 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2> |
| 641 | |
| 642 | <div class=section> |
| 643 | |
| 644 | <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p> |
| 645 | |
| 646 | </div> |
| 647 | |
| 648 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2> |
| 649 | |
| 650 | <div class=section> |
| 651 | |
| 652 | <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this, |
| 653 | <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure |
| 654 | script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p> |
| 655 | |
| 656 | </div> |
| 657 | |
| 658 | <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2> |
| 659 | |
| 660 | <div class=section> |
| 661 | |
| 662 | <h3>Server</h3> |
| 663 | |
| 664 | <div class=section> |
| 665 | |
| 666 | <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be |
| 667 | restored if there is real demand.</p> |
| 668 | |
| 669 | <h4>Event Scheduling</h4> |
| 670 | |
| 671 | <div class=section> |
| 672 | |
| 673 | <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future. |
| 674 | Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and |
| 675 | changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be |
| 676 | turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt> |
| 677 | commands described in disorder(1).</p> |
| 678 | |
| 679 | </div> |
| 680 | |
| 681 | <h4>Random Track Choice</h4> |
| 682 | |
| 683 | <div class=section> |
| 684 | |
| 685 | <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p> |
| 686 | |
| 687 | <ul> |
| 688 | |
| 689 | <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer |
| 690 | eligible for random choice.</li> |
| 691 | |
| 692 | <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for |
| 693 | non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li> |
| 694 | |
| 695 | <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining |
| 696 | the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random. |
| 697 | The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li> |
| 698 | |
| 699 | <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and |
| 700 | <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li> |
| 701 | |
| 702 | </ul> |
| 703 | |
| 704 | </div> |
| 705 | |
| 706 | <h4>Web Interface</h4> |
| 707 | |
| 708 | <div class=section> |
| 709 | |
| 710 | <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p> |
| 711 | |
| 712 | <ul> |
| 713 | |
| 714 | <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and |
| 715 | includes links to parent directories.</li> |
| 716 | |
| 717 | <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for, |
| 718 | instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are |
| 719 | redirected to the login page.</li> |
| 720 | |
| 721 | </ul> |
| 722 | |
| 723 | <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it |
| 724 | is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is |
| 725 | less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p> |
| 726 | |
| 727 | <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains |
| 728 | possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and |
| 729 | <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p> |
| 730 | |
| 731 | <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it, |
| 732 | use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default |
| 733 | location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt> |
| 734 | and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p> |
| 735 | |
| 736 | </div> |
| 737 | |
| 738 | </div> |
| 739 | |
| 740 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 741 | |
| 742 | <div class=section> |
| 743 | |
| 744 | <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and |
| 745 | remove users or modify their settings.</p> |
| 746 | |
| 747 | <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set |
| 748 | <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p> |
| 749 | |
| 750 | </div> |
| 751 | |
| 752 | <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> |
| 753 | |
| 754 | <div class=section> |
| 755 | |
| 756 | <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can |
| 757 | set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p> |
| 758 | |
| 759 | </div> |
| 760 | |
| 761 | <h3>Bugs Fixed</h3> |
| 762 | |
| 763 | <div class=section> |
| 764 | |
| 765 | <table class=bugs> |
| 766 | <tr> |
| 767 | <th>ID</th> |
| 768 | <th>Description</th> |
| 769 | </tr> |
| 770 | |
| 771 | <tr> |
| 772 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td> |
| 773 | <td>Search results should link to directories</td> |
| 774 | </tr> |
| 775 | |
| 776 | <tr> |
| 777 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td> |
| 778 | <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td> |
| 779 | </tr> |
| 780 | |
| 781 | <tr> |
| 782 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td> |
| 783 | <td>Non-uniform track selection</td> |
| 784 | </tr> |
| 785 | |
| 786 | <tr> |
| 787 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td> |
| 788 | <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td> |
| 789 | </tr> |
| 790 | |
| 791 | <tr> |
| 792 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td> |
| 793 | <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td> |
| 794 | </tr> |
| 795 | |
| 796 | <tr> |
| 797 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td> |
| 798 | <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not |
| 799 | subsequently redirected to login page</td> |
| 800 | </tr> |
| 801 | |
| 802 | <tr> |
| 803 | <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td> |
| 804 | <td>Broken aliasing rules</td> |
| 805 | </tr> |
| 806 | |
| 807 | </table> |
| 808 | |
| 809 | </div> |
| 810 | |
| 811 | </div> |
| 812 | |
| 813 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2> |
| 814 | |
| 815 | <div class=section> |
| 816 | |
| 817 | <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p> |
| 818 | |
| 819 | <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value |
| 820 | syntax it will accept.</p> |
| 821 | |
| 822 | <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p> |
| 823 | |
| 824 | </div> |
| 825 | |
| 826 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2> |
| 827 | |
| 828 | <div class=section> |
| 829 | |
| 830 | <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p> |
| 831 | |
| 832 | </div> |
| 833 | |
| 834 | <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2> |
| 835 | |
| 836 | <div class=section> |
| 837 | |
| 838 | <p><b>Important</b>! See <a |
| 839 | href="README.upgrades.html">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p> |
| 840 | |
| 841 | <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3> |
| 842 | |
| 843 | <div class=section> |
| 844 | |
| 845 | <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash |
| 846 | script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after |
| 847 | <tt>make install</tt>.</p> |
| 848 | |
| 849 | </div> |
| 850 | |
| 851 | <h3>Server</h3> |
| 852 | |
| 853 | <div class=section> |
| 854 | |
| 855 | <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration |
| 856 | file.</p> |
| 857 | |
| 858 | <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so |
| 859 | only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p> |
| 860 | |
| 861 | <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p> |
| 862 | |
| 863 | <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt> |
| 864 | configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set, |
| 865 | which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p> |
| 866 | |
| 867 | <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p> |
| 868 | |
| 869 | </div> |
| 870 | |
| 871 | <h3>Web Interface</h3> |
| 872 | |
| 873 | <div class=section> |
| 874 | |
| 875 | <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and |
| 876 | allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer |
| 877 | necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you |
| 878 | can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p> |
| 879 | |
| 880 | <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p> |
| 881 | |
| 882 | <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has |
| 883 | been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer |
| 884 | 7 and Opera 9.</p> |
| 885 | |
| 886 | </div> |
| 887 | |
| 888 | <h3>Disobedience</h3> |
| 889 | |
| 890 | <div class=section> |
| 891 | |
| 892 | <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the |
| 893 | queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new |
| 894 | 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p> |
| 895 | |
| 896 | </div> |
| 897 | |
| 898 | </div> |
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