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56 <h1>DisOrder Change History</h1>
58 <p>This file documents recent user-visible changes to <a
59 href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/">DisOrder</a>.</p>
61 <h2>Changes up to version 4.4</h2>
69 <p>The <tt>device</tt> configuration option no works under OS X.
71 be specified either by UID or name. Fixes <a
72 href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
75 <p>Gapless play should be more reliable, and playback latency over RTP
76 should be a bit lower. Note thought that all the sound output code has
77 been reorganized and in some cases completely rewritten, so it's possible
78 that bugs may have been (re-)introduced.</p>
80 <p>The <tt>command</tt> backend now (optionally) sends silence instead
81 of suspending writes when a pause occurs or no track is playing.</p>
85 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
89 <p>Confirmation URLs should be cleaner (and in particular not end
90 with punctuation). (Please see <a
91 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> for more about this.)</p>
99 <p>There is a new <tt>--command</tt> option which allows the RTP player
100 to send audio data to a user-chosen command instead of an audio API. See
101 the man page for details.</p>
103 <p>The <tt>--device</tt> option to <tt>disorder-playrtp</tt> now works
104 under OS X (as above).</p>
112 <p>IPv6 should now work. Network address specifications
113 (<tt>listen</tt>, <tt>connect</tt> etc) can now be prefixed with
114 <tt>-4</tt> or <tt>-6</tt> to force use
115 of IPv4 or IPv6, though normally this should not be needed.</p>
117 <p>Unicode support has been upgraded to <a
118 href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">Unicode
121 <p>Various elements of the source code have been
137 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">#27</a></td>
138 <td>Mac DisOrder uses wrong sound device</td>
142 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=33">#33</a></d>
143 <td>(Some) plugins need -lm.</td>
151 <h2>Changes up to version 4.3</h2>
155 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
159 <p>A bug was fixed in the calculation of how much of the track had
160 played. This would lead to the counter showing incorrect values in
161 various situations.</p>
163 <p>Disobedience's icons have been changed to larger, more colorful
164 ones. The SVG source is included if you want to fiddle with them.</p>
166 <p>“Select all” is now no longer available in the choose
167 tab. Instead there is a new “Select children” option which
168 selects the file children of a single subdirectory.</p>
176 <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half. You
177 can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
178 “<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>” in the config file.</p>
180 <p>It is now possible to ‘adopt’ randomly picked tracks.
181 Disobedience and the command-line client support this but the web
182 interface does not.</p>
184 <p>The default track name parsing was modified to handle filenames
185 generated by iTunes.</p>
189 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
193 <p><tt>disorderfm</tt> now preserves directory permissions.</p>
195 <p>DisOrder is now licensed under <a
196 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html">GPL v3</a>. The main
197 goal is to prohibit <a
198 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization">Tivoization</a>.</p>
200 <p>The build system will now automatically cope with Fink's broken GTK+
201 packages. There are a number of improvements to the Debian
204 <p>DisOrder now builds on 64-bit Linux systems.</p>
206 <p>There are various minor fixes.</p>
221 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=24">#24</a></td>
222 <td>Fails to build on ubuntu 8.10</td>
225 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=26">#26</a></td>
226 <td>Disobedience shows wrong track elapsed time after a pause</td>
233 <h2>Changes up to version 4.2</h2>
237 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
241 <p>The login window now has a 'remote' switch. If this is turned off
242 then Disobedience will connect to a local server. Formerly it would
243 always use TCP/IP.</p>
245 <p>The Delete and backspace keys will now remove tracks from the queue.
246 Escape will now dismiss the properties, users or login windows and return
247 now works in the login and properties windows.</p>
251 <h3>Documentation</h3>
255 <p>Track and global preferences are now described in a new
256 <b>disorder_preferences</b>(5) man page.</p>
271 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=21">#21</a></td>
272 <td>CGI should use PATH_INFO more sensibly</td>
280 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1.1</h2>
284 <p>Disobedience's “Login” window now works when you are logged
289 <h2>Changes up to version 4.1</h2>
293 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
297 <p>Disobedience has been largely rewritten:</p>
301 <li>All the tabs now use native GTK+ list/tree widgets, resulting in
302 greater speed in some cases and more consistency with other GTK+
305 <li>You can now use type-ahead find in the choose tab. The initiation
306 of a search is delayed slightly to avoid lots of updates when you're
307 half way through entering search terms.</li>
309 <li>The choose tab now shows track lengths.</li>
311 <li>Many buttons are now more reliably made insensitive when they can't
314 <li>You can now play tracks off the recent tab.</li>
318 <p>Disobedience attempts to cope with servers from older versions, up to
319 a point, but this is not well tested and it's best to keep the server
320 fully up to date.</p>
328 <p>When a track shares a directory with its alias, the real track name is
329 now returned instead of the alias (the opposite way round to the previous
335 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.2</h2>
339 <p>Corrected web browser linked from Disobedience.</p>
343 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0.1</h2>
347 <p>Libtool and Automake now install the CGI correctly. As part of this,
348 <tt>cgidir</tt> has been renamed to <tt>cgiexecdir</tt>. The configure
349 script will report an error if you try to use the old name.</p>
353 <h2>Changes up to version 4.0</h2>
361 <p>The <tt>gap</tt> directive will no longer work. It could be
362 restored if there is real demand.</p>
364 <h4>Event Scheduling</h4>
368 <p>It is now possible to schedule events to occur in the future.
369 Currently the supported actions are playing a specific track, and
370 changing a global preference (thus allowing e.g. random play to be
371 turned on or off). See the <tt>schedule-*</tt>
372 commands described in disorder(1).</p>
376 <h4>Random Track Choice</h4>
380 <p>This has been completely rewritten to support new features:</p>
384 <li>tracks in the recently-played list or in the queue are no longer
385 eligible for random choice.</li>
387 <li>there is a new <tt>weight</tt> track preference allowing for
388 non-uniform track selection. See disorder(1) for details.</li>
390 <li>there is a new configuration item <tt>replay_min</tt> defining
391 the minimum time before a played track can be picked at random.
392 The default is 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).</li>
394 <li>recently added tracks are biased up; see <tt>new_bias</tt> and
395 <tt>new_bias_age</tt> in disorder_config(5).</li>
401 <h4>Web Interface</h4>
405 <p>This has been largely rewritten. The most immediate benefits are:</p>
409 <li>the search page is integrated into the choose page, and
410 includes links to parent directories.</li>
412 <li>if you try to do something you have insufficient rights for,
413 instead of getting an error page or nothing happening, you are
414 redirected to the login page.</li>
418 <p>Customizers should find their lives easier: the syntax is less onerous, it
419 is possible to define macros to avoid repetition, and the documentation is
420 less monolithic (see disorder.cgi(8) as a starting point).</p>
422 <p>Mail is now sent via the system sendmail program, though it remains
423 possible to use TCP to connect to an SMTP server. See <tt>sendmail</tt> and
424 <tt>smtp_server</tt> in disorder_config(5).</p>
426 <p>The web interface is now installed automatically. If you don't want it,
427 use <tt>./configure --without-cgi</tt>. If you want it in a non-default
428 location, or no location for it is detected, set <tt>cgidir</tt>
429 and <tt>httpdir</tt> on the <tt>./configure</tt> command line.</p>
435 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
439 <p>There is now a new user management window. From here you can add and
440 remove users or modify their settings.</p>
442 <p>Relatedly, the server will only allow remote user management if you set
443 <tt>remote_userman</tt> to <tt>yes</tt>.</p>
447 <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
451 <p><tt>scripts/setup</tt> now honors command line options, and can
452 set up network play as well as the local default sound device.</p>
467 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=2">#2</a></td>
468 <td>Search results should link to directories</td>
472 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=6">#6</a></td>
473 <td>Schedule tracks for a particular time</td>
477 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=10">#10</a></td>
478 <td>Non-uniform track selection</td>
482 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=11">#11</a></td>
483 <td>Bias random selection to newly added tracks</td>
487 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=13">#13</a></td>
488 <td>Default encoding for debian setup scripts</td>
492 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=16">#16</a></td>
493 <td>Cookie expiry causes user to be silently logged out and not
494 subsequently redirected to login page</td>
498 <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=20">#20</a></td>
499 <td>Broken aliasing rules</td>
508 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.2</h2>
512 <p>Builds <tt>--without-server</tt> should work again.</p>
514 <p>The web interface is a bit more liberal in the cookie value
515 syntax it will accept.</p>
517 <p>Clients fail more gracefully if no password is available.</p>
521 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0.1</h2>
525 <p>Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.</p>
529 <h2>Changes up to version 3.0</h2>
533 <p><b>Important</b>! See <a
534 href="README.upgrades">README.upgrades</a> when upgrading.</p>
536 <h3>Platforms And Installation</h3>
540 <p>Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash
541 script in <tt>scripts/setup</tt> which will automate the setup after
542 <tt>make install</tt>.</p>
550 <p>Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration
553 <p>The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so
554 only additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.</p>
556 <p>The default inter-track gap is now 0s.</p>
558 <p>How sound is played is now controlled via the new <tt>api</tt>
559 configuration command. This also controls how the volume is set,
560 which now works with ALSA as well as OSS.</p>
562 <p>A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).</p>
566 <h3>Web Interface</h3>
570 <p>The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and
571 allows online registration of new users. Also it is no longer
572 necessary to manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you
573 can override it if you don't like the value it figures out).</p>
575 <p>It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.</p>
577 <p>The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has
578 been tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer
583 <h3>Disobedience</h3>
587 <p>A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the
588 queue while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new
589 'deselect all tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.</p>