3 * Fixed SIGHUP error, need python-musicpd >= 0.4.1
4 * Add core plugin to detect multiple MPD_sima instance on the same MPD host
5 * Fixed startup robustness
6 * Removed timestamp in console logging
8 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:02:17 +0200
13 * Add a setup.py, got rid of the Makefile.
14 * Switched to Python3 (>=3.2)
15 * Depends on requests (http client)
16 * Depends on python-musicpd (py3k port of python-mpd)
17 configuration file change
18 internal database remains the same
19 * Temporarily removed userdb feature
20 * Base artist for similarity is the last track queued
21 * Persistent http caching
23 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:37:14 +0200
28 * straight forward py3k conversion from v0.10.0
30 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> UNRELEASED
35 * Improved album detection (especially multi-artists album)
36 * Controls conf file is readable at startup
37 * Complete rewrite of MPD client
39 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:56:57 +0200
44 * Fixed Makefile, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2849 #2848)
46 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:06:27 +0100
51 * Fixed an issue in idle implementation
53 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:04:39 +0100
58 * New CLI option --create-db
59 * Option main_loop_time removed, use of idle makes it useless
60 * New config file option "dynamic" (fixes #2593)
63 * Start player abstraction, new MPD class (fixes #2418)
64 * Use idle MPD command, needs python-mpd >= 0.3
67 * PID file creation now respects system umask (fixes #2368)
68 * Avoid to queue twice the same album (fixes #2595)
69 * Empty password does not trigger auth attempt (fixes #2543)
70 * Fixed --var_dir option, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2796)
73 * Improved execution time in tracks history look up mainly.
74 * Switch to python-daemon 0.4
76 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:31:57 +0100
81 * New CLI option "--daemon" to run as a daemon
83 * Abandoned compatibility with python 2.5 (urllib2.urlopen timeout)
84 * Add daemon cli option to daemonize the process (closes #616)
85 * Add a Makefile (install, uninstall targets) following GNU standards.
86 * Refactored queue_mode method, thanks MsieurHappy ;)
87 * Moved Track class to separate file.
88 * Reduce memory footprint (better simafm cache handling).
90 * Fixed a bug in database management, cleaning database performs better
92 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 08 May 2011 14:06:22 +0200
97 * Fixes a bug introduced fixing #2113, history was no longer honored!
99 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:54:53 +0100
104 * Add Makefile from 0.8 dev branch
108 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:17:18 +0100
113 * Stall queueing when MPD is in "single" or "repeat" mode (closes #1607)
114 * No longer need to restart MPD_sima when MPD database has been updated, it
115 was necessary to have new entries to appear in MPD_sima (closes #1719).
116 * New database version, upgraded at first start (back up done in sima.db.0.6)
117 * Uses SQLite for history. Play history always saved, not anymore optional.
118 * simadb_cli uses MPD_HOST/MPD_PORT environment variables
120 * New mpd_sima CLI option --var_dir to change default ${XDG_DATA_HOME}
121 Allows to launch the script as a "system service" (closes #1738)
124 * Autoqueue not anymore stall when started without internet access (closes
126 * Fixed a bug with MPD_(HOST|PORT), env. var. only used when no host/port are
127 set in the config file.
129 Configuration file changes:
130 * New "history_duration" option
131 * Remove "history" & "history_length" options, replace by "history_duration"
133 * Remove "top_tracks" option, now use "queue" option with "top" value.
134 * New consume option (closes #1576)
135 * New queue mode "album" (closes #1008)
136 * New option "album_to_queue" to set how many albums to queue
137 * New option "single_album" allowing to force queuing track from different
138 albums, for instance it'll avoid to end up playing a whole OST.
140 (cf. <doc/examples/all_settings.cfg> for all options available)
142 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:11:12 +0100
147 * Use of SQLite (closes #838)
148 * [simadb_cli] new command line interface to edit sima.db (SQLite database)
149 * [mpd_sima.py] New command line option to load a specific configuration file
150 * Removed pyscrobbler module, now uses SimaFM (closes #741)
151 * Cache is no longer managed as it was (because of SimaFM), it isn't
152 possible to save it (advanced "cache" option removed).
153 last.fm request caching is still enabled though.
154 Saving last.fm request to file is milestoned 0.6.1
155 * Create documentation (docbook -> {troff,pdf,(x)html})
156 * Convert to unicode all utf-8/legacy code (closes #839)
157 * Re-Licenced the code under GNU GPL.
159 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 10 May 2010 19:40:10 +0200
164 * New fuzzy string matching dedicated to artist names (closes #686)
165 * uses optparse instead of getopt (closes #834)
166 * now sets options with built-in default, then configuration file and finally
168 * Fixes the “deprecated 'md5'” warning in audioscrobbler.py with patch
169 provided in bug report #11 (closes #1144) – cf. pyscrobbler online:
170 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler
172 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:01:22 +0100
177 * No longer uses/writes a default conf file in ~/.config/mpd_sima (or XDG
178 default), MPD_HOST is used if no conf file is present.
179 * replace exhaustive loops by generator
182 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:13:08 +0100
187 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist (closes #739).
188 * Now prefer non played over already played artist is possible (closes #774)
189 * Use of %-age of similarity to get the list of similar (closes #740).
190 * nearly all Unicode (closes #742).
191 * Using dequeu object => ** New history/cache/user_db formats. **
192 * Heavy refactoring, new Track object.
193 * Improved fuzzy search for artists in MPD library (using difflib/levenshtein)
194 * Log to file within python script (closes #815), add --log=<file> option.
195 * Removed bashism & improved portability in shell launcher, thanks ksh@vim-fr ;)
197 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:02:02 +0100
202 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist
203 * Better list of similar artists thanks to %-age of similarity… hopefully
206 -- kaliko jack Unreleased / abandoned dev branch
211 * New bash wrapper launch.sh to execute the script
212 * User's database for similar artists through a new conf file user_db_cfg.
213 Refer to examples for syntax.
214 * check playlist queue to add tracks, not only history.
215 * Rename history to history.pkl
216 * add new command line options, help and version.
217 * now look for MPD_HOST MPD_PORT env variable to create default conf file
218 * run main loop even if the same track is playing, hence MPD_sima will keep
219 adding new tracks even if the same track is still playing and stops only if
220 the target is reached (ie. queue_length)
222 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:10:09 +0200
227 * WARNING: Moved to python-mpd instead of python-mpdclient2
228 * Add cache for last.fm request
229 * Possibility to save cache to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
230 * new src directory layout
231 * Improved log output formatting
232 * Imroved code & removed old unused method
233 * Controls availability of commands right after conn/auth
234 * New pyscroobler version (revision 5), fix bug with slash in names.
236 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:10:47 +0200
239 MPD_sima v0.1.1 (first upgrade)
241 * HEAVY refactoring to improve coding style (thanks pylint).
242 * intercept audioScrobbler server connexion errors (no longer stops
243 mpd_sima). Issue/bug reported:
244 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler/issues/detail?id=7
245 * now cath SIGTERM signal along with SIGINT (keyborad interupt)
246 * save history to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
247 * add --pid option to python script
248 * correct launch.sh accordingly
249 * new date format for the log
251 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:35:25 +0200
254 MPD_sima v0.1.0 (first stable release)
256 * First quasi stable release (my first python code…)
258 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:03 +0200
260 # vim: fileencoding=utf-8