3 * Fixed mopidy compatibility implementation
5 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:14:48 +0100
9 * Remove EchoNest support (Closes #10)
10 * Enhanced queuing behavior in random mode (Closes #16)
11 * Add option to prevent single & repeat mode to disable queuing (Closes #19)
12 * Honor MPC password/host format on command line option 'host'
13 * Fixed fuzzy search for short artist names
14 * Client side hardcoded one month caching (ugly workaround for #7)
15 * Simplified album search
16 * Track search aggregates artist name and MusicBrainzID searches
17 * Add an undocumented mopidy compatibility configuration option
18 Use the boolean option "mopidy_compat" in the sima section
19 cf. https://gitlab.com/kaliko/sima/issues/21#
21 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:58:49 +0100
25 * Fixed blacklisting for Random plugin (Closes #14)
26 * Fixed sensible flavour of random plugin, thanks dnmx (Closes #15)
28 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:46:14 +0200
33 * This release in only intended to get rid of 0.14.2 source tarball.
34 Source tar ball for v0.14.2 was badly generated. Release 0.14.2 and 0.14.3
35 are actually the same source code, only generated tar were affected.
36 Sorry for the inconvenience.
38 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:49:03 +0100
43 * Fixed MPD client cache (filters empty strings)
44 * Fixed Track object to work with MPD >= 0.20 (Closes #12)
45 * Fixed python virtualenv installer
47 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 11 Feb 2017 13:04:27 +0100
52 * Prevent adding empty track to history (Closes #5)
53 * Fixed false warning about wrong MBID format (Closes #6)
55 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:03:39 +0100
60 * Add option to generate config on stdout
61 * Add priority feature for plugins
62 * More robust MPD client
63 * Fixed top track mode
64 * Fixed default conf file name (back to mpd_sima.cfg)
65 * Fixed http cache for lastFM
66 * Cleanup code (removed users similarities)
67 * Make "var-dir" option default name instead of "var_dir"
68 * Honor HTTP_PROXY env. var. (need requests >2.4.0)
70 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:48:41 +0200
75 * Use of MusicBrainzIdentifier by default
76 Please consider tagging your library with these metadata
77 * New virtualenv installer in pure python
79 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:20:49 +0100
84 * Use albumartist to fetch similar artists
85 * Fixed some bugs managing tags
87 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:42:15 +0100
92 * Add some randomness to track selection
93 * Do not queue artists already queued (regression)
94 * Some refactoring in http client
96 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:47:56 +0200
101 * Fixed SIGHUP error, need python-musicpd >= 0.4.1
102 * Add core plugin to detect multiple MPD_sima instance on the same MPD host
103 * Fixed startup robustness
104 * Removed timestamp in console logging
106 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:02:17 +0200
112 * Add a setup.py, got rid of the Makefile.
113 * Switched to Python3 (>=3.2)
114 * Depends on requests (http client)
115 * Depends on python-musicpd (py3k port of python-mpd)
116 configuration file change
117 internal database remains the same
118 * Temporarily removed userdb feature
119 * Base artist for similarity is the last track queued
120 * Persistent http caching
122 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:37:14 +0200
127 * straight forward py3k conversion from v0.10.0
129 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> UNRELEASED
134 * Improved album detection (especially multi-artists album)
135 * Controls conf file is readable at startup
136 * Complete rewrite of MPD client
138 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:56:57 +0200
143 * Fixed Makefile, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2849 #2848)
145 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:06:27 +0100
150 * Fixed an issue in idle implementation
152 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:04:39 +0100
157 * New CLI option --create-db
158 * Option main_loop_time removed, use of idle makes it useless
159 * New config file option "dynamic" (fixes #2593)
162 * Start player abstraction, new MPD class (fixes #2418)
163 * Use idle MPD command, needs python-mpd >= 0.3
166 * PID file creation now respects system umask (fixes #2368)
167 * Avoid to queue twice the same album (fixes #2595)
168 * Empty password does not trigger auth attempt (fixes #2543)
169 * Fixed --var_dir option, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2796)
172 * Improved execution time in tracks history look up mainly.
173 * Switch to python-daemon 0.4
175 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:31:57 +0100
180 * New CLI option "--daemon" to run as a daemon
182 * Abandoned compatibility with python 2.5 (urllib2.urlopen timeout)
183 * Add daemon cli option to daemonize the process (closes #616)
184 * Add a Makefile (install, uninstall targets) following GNU standards.
185 * Refactored queue_mode method, thanks MsieurHappy ;)
186 * Moved Track class to separate file.
187 * Reduce memory footprint (better simafm cache handling).
189 * Fixed a bug in database management, cleaning database performs better
191 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 08 May 2011 14:06:22 +0200
196 * Fixes a bug introduced fixing #2113, history was no longer honored!
198 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:54:53 +0100
203 * Add Makefile from 0.8 dev branch
207 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:17:18 +0100
212 * Stall queueing when MPD is in "single" or "repeat" mode (closes #1607)
213 * No longer need to restart MPD_sima when MPD database has been updated, it
214 was necessary to have new entries to appear in MPD_sima (closes #1719).
215 * New database version, upgraded at first start (back up done in sima.db.0.6)
216 * Uses SQLite for history. Play history always saved, not anymore optional.
217 * simadb_cli uses MPD_HOST/MPD_PORT environment variables
219 * New mpd_sima CLI option --var_dir to change default ${XDG_DATA_HOME}
220 Allows to launch the script as a "system service" (closes #1738)
223 * Autoqueue not anymore stall when started without internet access (closes
225 * Fixed a bug with MPD_(HOST|PORT), env. var. only used when no host/port are
226 set in the config file.
228 Configuration file changes:
229 * New "history_duration" option
230 * Remove "history" & "history_length" options, replace by "history_duration"
232 * Remove "top_tracks" option, now use "queue" option with "top" value.
233 * New consume option (closes #1576)
234 * New queue mode "album" (closes #1008)
235 * New option "album_to_queue" to set how many albums to queue
236 * New option "single_album" allowing to force queuing track from different
237 albums, for instance it'll avoid to end up playing a whole OST.
239 (cf. <doc/examples/all_settings.cfg> for all options available)
241 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:11:12 +0100
246 * Use of SQLite (closes #838)
247 * [simadb_cli] new command line interface to edit sima.db (SQLite database)
248 * [mpd_sima.py] New command line option to load a specific configuration file
249 * Removed pyscrobbler module, now uses SimaFM (closes #741)
250 * Cache is no longer managed as it was (because of SimaFM), it isn't
251 possible to save it (advanced "cache" option removed).
252 last.fm request caching is still enabled though.
253 Saving last.fm request to file is milestoned 0.6.1
254 * Create documentation (docbook -> {troff,pdf,(x)html})
255 * Convert to unicode all utf-8/legacy code (closes #839)
256 * Re-Licenced the code under GNU GPL.
258 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 10 May 2010 19:40:10 +0200
263 * New fuzzy string matching dedicated to artist names (closes #686)
264 * uses optparse instead of getopt (closes #834)
265 * now sets options with built-in default, then configuration file and finally
267 * Fixes the “deprecated 'md5'” warning in audioscrobbler.py with patch
268 provided in bug report #11 (closes #1144) – cf. pyscrobbler online:
269 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler
271 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:01:22 +0100
276 * No longer uses/writes a default conf file in ~/.config/mpd_sima (or XDG
277 default), MPD_HOST is used if no conf file is present.
278 * replace exhaustive loops by generator
281 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:13:08 +0100
286 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist (closes #739).
287 * Now prefer non played over already played artist is possible (closes #774)
288 * Use of %-age of similarity to get the list of similar (closes #740).
289 * nearly all Unicode (closes #742).
290 * Using dequeu object => ** New history/cache/user_db formats. **
291 * Heavy refactoring, new Track object.
292 * Improved fuzzy search for artists in MPD library (using difflib/levenshtein)
293 * Log to file within python script (closes #815), add --log=<file> option.
294 * Removed bashism & improved portability in shell launcher, thanks ksh@vim-fr ;)
296 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:02:02 +0100
301 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist
302 * Better list of similar artists thanks to %-age of similarity… hopefully
305 -- kaliko jack Unreleased / abandoned dev branch
310 * New bash wrapper launch.sh to execute the script
311 * User's database for similar artists through a new conf file user_db_cfg.
312 Refer to examples for syntax.
313 * check playlist queue to add tracks, not only history.
314 * Rename history to history.pkl
315 * add new command line options, help and version.
316 * now look for MPD_HOST MPD_PORT env variable to create default conf file
317 * run main loop even if the same track is playing, hence MPD_sima will keep
318 adding new tracks even if the same track is still playing and stops only if
319 the target is reached (ie. queue_length)
321 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:10:09 +0200
326 * WARNING: Moved to python-mpd instead of python-mpdclient2
327 * Add cache for last.fm request
328 * Possibility to save cache to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
329 * new src directory layout
330 * Improved log output formatting
331 * Imroved code & removed old unused method
332 * Controls availability of commands right after conn/auth
333 * New pyscroobler version (revision 5), fix bug with slash in names.
335 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:10:47 +0200
338 MPD_sima v0.1.1 (first upgrade)
340 * HEAVY refactoring to improve coding style (thanks pylint).
341 * intercept audioScrobbler server connexion errors (no longer stops
342 mpd_sima). Issue/bug reported:
343 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler/issues/detail?id=7
344 * now cath SIGTERM signal along with SIGINT (keyborad interupt)
345 * save history to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
346 * add --pid option to python script
347 * correct launch.sh accordingly
348 * new date format for the log
350 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:35:25 +0200
353 MPD_sima v0.1.0 (first stable release)
355 * First quasi stable release (my first python code…)
357 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:03 +0200
359 # vim: fileencoding=utf-8
360 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-