1 * Changes up to version 3.1
5 The 'gap' directive will no longer work. It could be restored if there
8 *** Random Track Choice
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 'weight' track preference allowing for non-uniform
14 track selection. See disorder(1) for details.
15 - there is a new configuration item replay_min defining the minimum
16 time before a played track can be picked at random. The default is
17 8 hours (which matches the earlier behaviour).
19 * Changes up to version 3.0.1
21 Debian upgrades from 2.0.x should now work better.
23 * Changes up to version 3.0
25 Important! See README.upgrades when upgrading.
27 ** Platforms And Installation
29 Mac OS X and FreeBSD are somewhat supported. There is now a bash script
30 in scripts/setup which will automate the setup after 'make install'.
34 Users are now stored in the database rather than a configuration file.
36 The server now has a built-in list of stopwords and players, so only
37 additions to these need be mentioned in the configuration file.
39 The default inter-track gap is now 0s.
41 How sound is played is now controlled via the new 'api' configuration
42 command. This also controls how the volume is set, which now works with
45 A bug in the MP3 decoder was fixed (also in 2.0.4).
49 The web interface now uses cookies to remember user identity, and allows
50 online registration of new users. Also it is no longer necessary to
51 manually specify the URL of the web interface (but you can override it
52 if you don't like the value it figures out).
54 It is possible to allow users to register via the web interface.
56 The web interface's browser support has been improved. It has been
57 tested with Firefox 2, Safari 3, Konqueror 3, Internet Explorer 7 and
62 A bug which would cause a crash if you attempt to rearrange the queue
63 while no track was playing has been fixed. There is a new 'deselect all
64 tracks' option, mirroring 'select all tracks.
66 * Changes up to version 2.0
70 Tracks can now have tags associated with them. See tags in disorder(1)
71 or the preferences documentation for the web interface or Disobedience.
73 The search facility knows how to limit results by tag (see search
74 documentation for any interface) as well as by word search. It is
75 possible to limit random play by tag (see required-tags and
76 prohibited-tags in disorder_config(5)).
78 Unicode support is improved. Case-folding and word breaking now follows
79 the rules given in the Unicode standard (with a bit of tailoring in the
84 There is a new client, 'Disobedience', that depends on the GTK+ library.
85 Feedback on the interface would be very welcome.
89 The "New" screen display tracks recently added to the database. From
90 here they can be played or their preferences changed.
92 Long track names are truncated so they fit better on the screen. Hover
97 DisOrder can broadcast audio over a network, allowing it to be played on
98 multiple client machines. See README.streams for details.
102 Slow file lookups are cached in the server. This should help
103 installations with large collections and/or slow platforms.
105 The 'enabled' and 'random_enabled' configuration options are now gone.
106 Instead the state survives from one run of the server to the next.
107 'disable now' is gone as well - if you want to emulate it disable
108 playing and then scratch the current track.
110 The 'pick' plugin has been abolished. All the logic formerly done there
111 is now built into the server, where it can be done much more
114 'tracklength' plugins must be explicitly specified.
116 A bug where removing a collection (from the configuration) could cause a
117 crash when random play was enabled has been fixed.
119 A new configuration option 'queue_pad' allows the number of random
120 tracks kept on the queue to be controlled.
122 There is a new utility disorder-decode which can decode OGG, MP3, WAV
123 and FLAC. The example config file uses it.
125 Database statistics are computed in a subprocess so that the main server
126 (and all clients) are not blocked for the duration.
130 There is a new command line tool called 'disorderfm' which is designed
131 for filename translation on (for instance) digital audio repositories.
132 It is not yet feature-complete. See its man page for additional
135 ** Build And Configuration
137 You can control which components are built with new --with options. See
140 options.transform and the 'transform' web option have gone, replaced
141 with a 'transform' configuration command. Both this and 'namepart' are
146 Ross Younger, Colin Watson, Michael Stevens and Mark Wooding all
147 contributed in some way to this release.
149 * Changes up to version 1.5.1
153 Correct regexp for non-alpha tracks.
155 * Changes up to version 1.5
159 Regexp-based filtering of tracks (for instance as used by the initial
160 'Choose' page) now does the regexp matching in the server, limiting the
161 amount of data transferred to the web interface only to be discarded.
165 Regexp-base filtering of tracks is now available to the command line
170 New server_nice, speaker_nice and rescan_nice configuration options
171 allow independent control of process priorities.
173 Scratches are now attributed to the user who requested them.
176 A file descriptor was leaked for each track played.
177 The amount of a track played so far was not reported.
178 The speaker process could crash on underrun.
179 The server would crash if you paused a non-pause capable track.
180 Regexp matching in the file and directory list commands was not
182 Handling of variable-argument commands in the client was broken.
184 * Changes up to version 1.4
188 Raw format players are now supported. See README.upgrades and
189 README.raw for details. This allows pausing and eliminating the
192 Pausing is also supported with suitably modified standalone player
193 plugins, though none of the supplied ones are capable of this.
195 When random play is enabled the randomly picked track now appears in the
196 queue, and can be moved around the queue, removed from it, etc.
200 Switches (random play, pause, ...) are now presented as a
201 fixed-appearance switch with an adjacent state indicator.
203 The 'Manage' screen has new buttons to move tracks to the head or tail
206 You can now edit the preferences for all the tracks in an album in a
207 single screen, rather than having to visit each separately. For the
208 time being the raw preferences editing has gone; it can be reintroduced
209 on some form if there is demand. (You can still edit raw preferences
210 from the command line.)
212 Labels are now documented in options.labels rather than
217 If you tried to start up on any empty database with random play enabled
218 the server would exit with an error.
220 The server no longer risks failing if you strace its player
223 It was possible for the server to hang when a 'reconfigure' command was
224 issued. This should no longer be the case.
226 The default signal to forcibly terminate players is now SIGKILL.
230 Plugins must now declare a type word. This allows them to document
231 whether they are a standalone player or a raw-format player, and whether
232 they support pausing. They can also arrange to get setup and cleanup
233 calls in the main server. See disorder(3) for more details.
235 * Changes up to version 1.3
239 Berkeley DB 4.2 is no longer supported. Use 4.3.
243 There is a new 'authorize' command to simplify the addition of local
244 users. Please report successes as well as failures.
246 There is a new 'resolve' command to return the real track name behind an
249 The 'rescan' command no longer takes an argument.
253 The track database code has been largely rewritten to improve
256 There is a new 'lock' directive. By default the server uses a lockfile
257 to prevent multiple copies of itself running simultaneously; this can be
258 inhibited e.g. if you are using a filesystem that does not support
259 locking and are confident you can prevent concurrent running yourself.
261 Aliases for track names, constructed from trackname_display_
262 preferences, now appear in the virtual filesystem.
264 The server now executes a subprocess for the rescan operation. It also
265 runs a separate deadlock manager.
267 Standard output and standard error from subprocesses are now logged.
268 This is handy if you need to figure out why a player failed unexpectedly
269 but might lead to huge log files if you have needlessly verbose players.
273 Enable/disable buttons are now colored to reflect current state.
275 Entering numeric volume values (rather than clicking on the arrows) now
278 Connection errors are reported more gracefully.
282 Scanner plugins are now always invoked in a subprocess.
284 disorder_track_count() and disorder_track_getn() are no longer
285 available. Instead use disorder_track_random().
287 Plugins are now opened with RTLD_NOW, so link errors are detected
292 disorder-dump now insists on the input/output file being a named regular
293 file, rather than using stdin or stdout.
297 Some missing files have been added, and some notes added regarding
298 getting text encoding right.
300 * Changes up to version 1.2
302 See README.upgrades when upgrading to this version.
306 Avoid accumulating overlarge recently played list.
308 When the server was stopped, the currently playing track would not be
309 added to the recently played list. This has been fixed.
311 Reloading the 'volume' page no longer repeats the last volume-changing
314 The search facility now works properly for multiple hits within a single
319 New namepart directive replaces web interface's trackname-part. There
320 are associated changes to the protocol and clients.
322 The number of database queries per candidate match required when
323 searching has been reduced.
325 The operator can control the signal used to scratch playing tracks. The
326 default has been changed to SIGINT from SIGKILL.
328 The 'log' command now provides a formalised event log, rather than raw
329 access to the server's ordinary log output.
331 ** Web Interface Changes
335 When picking a track the client now stays on the same screen rather than
336 redirecting back to the 'Playing' screen. So that the user gets
337 feedback from their action, playing and queued tracks are now marked as
338 such in the track picking screen.
340 It is possible to revert to the old behaviour by removing the back=
341 argument from the choose.html and search.html templates (and optionally
342 the trackstate lines).
346 Non-ASCII characters are now properly supported in search terms.
350 The template syntax has been changed slightly to ignore whitespace in
355 Some formerly textual buttons are now replaced by images (with ALT text
356 reflecting the old value). The stylesheet is now a .css file (installed
357 in the same place as the images) rather than being embedded into every
360 Artist and album names in the playing and recently-played lists are now
361 links to the corresponding directory.
363 More functions are now available from the 'manage' screen.
365 The menus are now (by default) across the top of the screen instead of
366 down the side. Set the 'menu' label to 'sidebar' to restore the old
367 appearance. 'Volume' is not present in this new menu, use 'Manage'
368 instead (or edit the template).
372 tkdisorder now displays artist, album and title in the queue and
373 recently played widgets, rather than just the title (as formerly).
375 * Changes up to version 1.1
379 Corrected various problems with UTF-8 parsing.
381 In the web interface, "The Beatles" (etc) are now grouped under 'B' not
382 'T' when grouping tracks by initial letter.
386 The list of recently played tracks is now preserved across server
389 Track IDs are more compact.
391 Versions of libdb before 4.2 are no longer supported. 4.2 and 4.3 both
392 work now. 4.2 support will be removed in some future release.
394 Prehistoric backwards-compatibility logic removed. Only affects people
395 upgrading from long before 1.0 (who should upgrade to 1.0 and then to
400 Tracks can be moved in the queue from the command line.
402 'disorder queue' now reports track IDs.
404 $pkgdatadir/completion.bash provides tab completion over commands and
409 New 'cooked' preferences interface saves users having to know arcane
410 details of trackname preferences and so on. Non-ASCII characters are
411 now properly supported in this context.
413 CGI arguments to the web interface are now checked for UTF-8 compliance.
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