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