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1 | * Changes up to version 2.1 |
2 | ||
3 | ** Server | |
4 | ||
5 | Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file. | |
6 | ||
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7 | The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only |
8 | additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file. | |
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10 | The default inter-track gap is now 0s. |
11 | ||
ad884aa5 | 12 | How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration |
13 | command. This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with | |
14 | ALSA as well as OSS. | |
15 | ||
d84bf422 | 16 | ** Web Interface |
17 | ||
18 | The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows | |
b64c2805 | 19 | online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to |
20 | manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it | |
21 | if you don't like the value it figures out). | |
d84bf422 | 22 | |
ad884aa5 | 23 | It is possibe to allow users to register via the web interface. |
24 | ||
25 | The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been | |
26 | tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and | |
27 | Opera 9. | |
28 | ||
92afc09e | 29 | * Changes up to version 2.0 |
460b9539 | 30 | |
31 | ** General | |
32 | ||
460b9539 | 33 | Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1) |
34 | or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience. | |
35 | ||
36 | The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search | |
37 | documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is | |
38 | possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and | |
39 | prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)). | |
40 | ||
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41 | Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows |
42 | the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the | |
43 | latte case). | |
44 | ||
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45 | ** Disobedience |
46 | ||
47 | There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library. | |
48 | Feedback on the interface would be very welcome. | |
49 | ||
50 | ** Web Interface | |
51 | ||
52 | The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From | |
53 | here they can be played or their preferences changed. | |
54 | ||
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55 | Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover |
56 | for the full name. | |
57 | ||
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58 | ** Network Play |
59 | ||
60 | DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on | |
61 | multiple client machines. See README.streams for details. | |
62 | ||
460b9539 | 63 | ** Server |
64 | ||
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65 | Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help |
66 | installations with large collections and/or slow platforms. | |
460b9539 | 67 | |
68 | The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone. | |
69 | Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next. | |
70 | 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable | |
71 | playing and then scratch the current track. | |
72 | ||
73 | The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there | |
74 | is now built into the server, where it can be done much more | |
75 | efficiently. | |
76 | ||
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77 | 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified. |
78 | ||
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79 | A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a |
80 | crash when random play was enabled has been fixed. | |
81 | ||
63e28749 | 82 | A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random |
83 | tracks kept on the queue to be controlled. | |
84 | ||
75db8354 | 85 | There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV |
86 | and FLAC. The example config file uses it. | |
ce6c36be | 87 | |
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88 | Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server |
89 | (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration. | |
90 | ||
460b9539 | 91 | ** disorderfm |
92 | ||
93 | There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed | |
94 | for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories. | |
95 | It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional | |
96 | details. | |
97 | ||
98 | ** Build And Configuration | |
99 | ||
100 | You can control which components are built with new --with options. See | |
101 | README. | |
102 | ||
103 | options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced | |
104 | with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are | |
105 | now optional. | |
106 | ||
63e28749 | 107 | ** Thanks |
108 | ||
109 | Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all | |
110 | contributed in some way to this release. | |
111 | ||
460b9539 | 112 | * Changes up to version 1.5.1 |
113 | ||
114 | ** Web Interface | |
115 | ||
116 | Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks. | |
117 | ||
118 | * Changes up to version 1.5 | |
119 | ||
120 | ** Web Interface | |
121 | ||
122 | Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial | |
123 | 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the | |
124 | amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded. | |
125 | ||
126 | ** Client | |
127 | ||
128 | Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line | |
129 | client. | |
130 | ||
131 | ** Server | |
132 | ||
133 | New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options | |
134 | allow independent control of process priorities. | |
135 | ||
136 | Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them. | |
137 | ||
138 | Bugs fixed: | |
139 | A file descriptor was leaked for each track played. | |
140 | The amount of a track played so far was not reported. | |
141 | The speaker process could crash on underrun. | |
142 | The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track. | |
143 | Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not | |
144 | reliable. | |
145 | Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken. | |
146 | ||
147 | * Changes up to version 1.4 | |
148 | ||
149 | ** General | |
150 | ||
151 | Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and | |
152 | README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the | |
153 | inter-track gap. | |
154 | ||
155 | Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player | |
156 | plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this. | |
157 | ||
158 | When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the | |
159 | queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc. | |
160 | ||
161 | ** Web Interface | |
162 | ||
163 | Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a | |
164 | fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator. | |
165 | ||
166 | The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail | |
167 | of the queue. | |
168 | ||
169 | You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a | |
170 | single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the | |
171 | time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced | |
172 | on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences | |
173 | from the command line.) | |
174 | ||
175 | Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than | |
176 | disorder_config(5). | |
177 | ||
178 | ** Server | |
179 | ||
180 | If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled | |
181 | the server would exit with an error. | |
182 | ||
183 | The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player | |
184 | subprocesses. | |
185 | ||
186 | It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was | |
187 | issued. This should no longer be the case. | |
188 | ||
189 | The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL. | |
190 | ||
191 | ** Plugins | |
192 | ||
193 | Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document | |
194 | whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether | |
195 | they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup | |
196 | calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details. | |
197 | ||
198 | * Changes up to version 1.3 | |
199 | ||
200 | ** Dependencies | |
201 | ||
202 | Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3. | |
203 | ||
204 | ** Client | |
205 | ||
206 | There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local | |
207 | users. Please report successes as well as failures. | |
208 | ||
209 | There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an | |
210 | alias. | |
211 | ||
212 | The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument. | |
213 | ||
214 | ** Server | |
215 | ||
216 | The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve | |
217 | maintainability. | |
218 | ||
219 | There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile | |
220 | to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be | |
221 | inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support | |
222 | locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself. | |
223 | ||
224 | Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_ | |
225 | preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem. | |
226 | ||
227 | The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also | |
228 | runs a separate deadlock manager. | |
229 | ||
230 | Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged. | |
231 | This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly | |
232 | but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players. | |
233 | ||
234 | ** Web Interface | |
235 | ||
236 | Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state. | |
237 | ||
238 | Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now | |
239 | works. | |
240 | ||
241 | Connection errors are reported more gracefuly. | |
242 | ||
243 | ** Plugins | |
244 | ||
245 | Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess. | |
246 | ||
247 | disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer | |
248 | available. Instead use disorder_track_random(). | |
249 | ||
250 | Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected | |
251 | immediately. | |
252 | ||
253 | ** Tools | |
254 | ||
255 | disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular | |
256 | file, rather than using stdin or stdout. | |
257 | ||
258 | ** Other | |
259 | ||
260 | Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding | |
261 | getting text encoding right. | |
262 | ||
263 | * Changes up to version 1.2 | |
264 | ||
265 | See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version. | |
266 | ||
267 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
268 | ||
269 | Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list. | |
270 | ||
271 | When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be | |
272 | added to the recently played list. This has been fixed. | |
273 | ||
274 | Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing | |
275 | action. | |
276 | ||
277 | The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single | |
278 | artist or album. | |
279 | ||
280 | ** Server | |
281 | ||
282 | New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There | |
283 | are associated changes to the protocol and clients. | |
284 | ||
285 | The number of database queries per candidate match required when | |
286 | searching has been reduced. | |
287 | ||
288 | The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The | |
289 | default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL. | |
290 | ||
291 | The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw | |
292 | access to the server's ordinary log output. | |
293 | ||
294 | ** Web Interface Changes | |
295 | ||
296 | *** Choosing Tracks | |
297 | ||
298 | When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than | |
299 | redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets | |
300 | feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as | |
301 | such in the track picking screen. | |
302 | ||
303 | It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back= | |
304 | argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally | |
305 | the trackstate lines). | |
306 | ||
307 | *** Search | |
308 | ||
309 | Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms. | |
310 | ||
311 | *** Syntax | |
312 | ||
313 | The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in | |
314 | certain places. | |
315 | ||
316 | *** Miscellaneous | |
317 | ||
318 | Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text | |
319 | reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed | |
320 | in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every | |
321 | template. | |
322 | ||
323 | Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now | |
324 | links to the corresponding directory. | |
325 | ||
326 | More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen. | |
327 | ||
328 | The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of | |
329 | down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old | |
330 | appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage' | |
331 | instead (or edit the template). | |
332 | ||
333 | ** tkdisorder | |
334 | ||
335 | tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and | |
336 | recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly). | |
337 | ||
338 | * Changes up to version 1.1 | |
339 | ||
340 | ** Bugs Fixed | |
341 | ||
342 | Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing. | |
343 | ||
344 | In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not | |
345 | 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter. | |
346 | ||
347 | ** Server | |
348 | ||
349 | The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server | |
350 | restarts. | |
351 | ||
352 | Track IDs are more compact. | |
353 | ||
354 | Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both | |
355 | work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release. | |
356 | ||
357 | Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people | |
358 | upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to | |
359 | 1.1.) | |
360 | ||
361 | ** Command Line | |
362 | ||
363 | Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line. | |
364 | ||
365 | 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs. | |
366 | ||
367 | $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and | |
368 | options. | |
369 | ||
370 | ** Web Interface | |
371 | ||
372 | New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane | |
373 | details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are | |
374 | now properly supported in this context. | |
375 | ||
376 | CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance. | |
377 | ||
378 | Local Variables: | |
379 | mode:outline | |
380 | fill-column:72 | |
381 | End: |