3 * Add positional argument:
4 "random", a short cut to start in random mode
6 -- kaliko <kaliko@azylum.org> UNRELEASED
10 * Remove bad heuristic to infer artist aliases
11 * Set max_art default value to 20
12 * Add sphinx documentation
13 * Merge unix manuals in sphinx reStructuredText
14 Call "setup.py build_sphinx" to build documentation (troff and html).
16 sphinx-build -d ./build/sphinx/doctrees doc/source -b man ./build/sphinx/man
18 -- kaliko <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:11:48 +0100
22 * New database, no migration done from old database !
23 A backup is done in "${XDG_DATA_HOME}/mpd_sima/"
24 Play history and blocklist are forgotten then.
25 * Blocklist is now handled with mpd-sima command arguments,
26 simadb_cli executable is removed.
27 * Removed obsolete --create-db and --generate-config options
28 * Fixed crash when setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME (closes #50)
29 * Add abstract unix socket support for MPD connection
30 * Better MPD connection management.
31 * Need at least python-musicpd 0.7.0.
32 Abstract socket in v0.6.0 and socket timeout in v0.7.0
34 -- kaliko <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:02:37 +0100
38 * New offline autoqueue plugin based on file genre tags only
39 * Add randomness in Tags plugin artist selection
40 * Fixed issue with un-tagged titles (closes #40)
41 * Fixed "artist with quotes not found" (closes #41)
42 * Fixed bad pid in Uniq core plugin (closes #32)
43 * Move "test-tags-config" as positional argument "config-test"
44 * Move "--create-db" as positional argument "create-db"
45 * Add mpd-sima commands as positional arguments:
46 config-test, create-db, generate-config, purge-history
47 * Use duration instead of time in Track object (closes #37)
48 * Use musicbrainz_albumid|trackid tags in Tracks object
50 -- kaliko <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:21:39 +0200
54 * tags plugin: Add album queue mode
55 * tags plugin: Ensure metadata used in filter are enabled
56 so that MPD exposes them (closes #38)
58 -- kaliko <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 09 Jan 2021 12:28:17 +0100
62 * New offline autoqueue plugin based on file tags only
63 * Expose a new executable "test-tags-config"
64 * Update vinstall.py (closes #34)
65 * Fixed bug when http client fetches a corrupted cached entry (closes #35)
66 * Need at least python 3.6
68 -- kaliko <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:17:05 +0100
72 * Major MPD client refactoring
73 * Refactored random plugin
74 * Fixed bug in MPD client reconnection
76 -- kaliko <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 16 May 2020 14:49:04 +0200
80 * Improve HTTP client (use persistent connection)
81 * Fixed a serious bug in PlayerClient().search_albums()
82 "search_albums" method was ignoring some albums when Artist object had
85 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 03 May 2020 16:30:36 +0200
89 * Fixed sqlite sqlite3.OperationalError VACUUM Error
90 cf. https://bugs.python.org/issue28518
91 * Add option to queue a chosen number of tracks from an album (closes #28)
92 * Add option to shuffle tracks in album mode (Thanks Sacha)
94 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:41:22 +0100
98 * Fixed mopidy compatibility implementation
100 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:14:48 +0100
104 * Remove EchoNest support (Closes #10)
105 * Enhanced queuing behavior in random mode (Closes #16)
106 * Add option to prevent single & repeat mode to disable queuing (Closes #19)
107 * Honor MPC password/host format on command line option 'host'
108 * Fixed fuzzy search for short artist names
109 * Client side hardcoded one month caching (ugly workaround for #7)
110 * Simplified album search
111 * Track search aggregates artist name and MusicBrainzID searches
112 * Add an undocumented mopidy compatibility configuration option
113 Use the boolean option "mopidy_compat" in the sima section
114 cf. https://gitlab.com/kaliko/sima/issues/21#
116 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:58:49 +0100
120 * Fixed blacklisting for Random plugin (Closes #14)
121 * Fixed sensible flavour of random plugin, thanks dnmx (Closes #15)
123 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:46:14 +0200
128 * This release in only intended to get rid of 0.14.2 source tarball.
129 Source tar ball for v0.14.2 was badly generated. Release 0.14.2 and 0.14.3
130 are actually the same source code, only generated tar were affected.
131 Sorry for the inconvenience.
133 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:49:03 +0100
138 * Fixed MPD client cache (filters empty strings)
139 * Fixed Track object to work with MPD >= 0.20 (Closes #12)
140 * Fixed python virtualenv installer
142 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 11 Feb 2017 13:04:27 +0100
147 * Prevent adding empty track to history (Closes #5)
148 * Fixed false warning about wrong MBID format (Closes #6)
150 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:03:39 +0100
155 * Add option to generate config on stdout
156 * Add priority feature for plugins
157 * More robust MPD client
158 * Fixed top track mode
159 * Fixed default conf file name (back to mpd_sima.cfg)
160 * Fixed http cache for lastFM
161 * Cleanup code (removed users similarities)
162 * Make "var-dir" option default name instead of "var_dir"
163 * Honor HTTP_PROXY env. var. (need requests >2.4.0)
165 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:48:41 +0200
170 * Use of MusicBrainzIdentifier by default
171 Please consider tagging your library with these metadata
172 * New virtualenv installer in pure python
174 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:20:49 +0100
179 * Use albumartist to fetch similar artists
180 * Fixed some bugs managing tags
182 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:42:15 +0100
187 * Add some randomness to track selection
188 * Do not queue artists already queued (regression)
189 * Some refactoring in http client
191 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:47:56 +0200
196 * Fixed SIGHUP error, need python-musicpd >= 0.4.1
197 * Add core plugin to detect multiple MPD_sima instance on the same MPD host
198 * Fixed startup robustness
199 * Removed timestamp in console logging
201 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:02:17 +0200
207 * Add a setup.py, got rid of the Makefile.
208 * Switched to Python3 (>=3.2)
209 * Depends on requests (http client)
210 * Depends on python-musicpd (py3k port of python-mpd)
211 configuration file change
212 internal database remains the same
213 * Temporarily removed userdb feature
214 * Base artist for similarity is the last track queued
215 * Persistent http caching
217 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:37:14 +0200
222 * straight forward py3k conversion from v0.10.0
224 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> UNRELEASED
229 * Improved album detection (especially multi-artists album)
230 * Controls conf file is readable at startup
231 * Complete rewrite of MPD client
233 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:56:57 +0200
238 * Fixed Makefile, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2849 #2848)
240 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:06:27 +0100
245 * Fixed an issue in idle implementation
247 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:04:39 +0100
252 * New CLI option --create-db
253 * Option main_loop_time removed, use of idle makes it useless
254 * New config file option "dynamic" (fixes #2593)
257 * Start player abstraction, new MPD class (fixes #2418)
258 * Use idle MPD command, needs python-mpd >= 0.3
261 * PID file creation now respects system umask (fixes #2368)
262 * Avoid to queue twice the same album (fixes #2595)
263 * Empty password does not trigger auth attempt (fixes #2543)
264 * Fixed --var_dir option, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2796)
267 * Improved execution time in tracks history look up mainly.
268 * Switch to python-daemon 0.4
270 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:31:57 +0100
275 * New CLI option "--daemon" to run as a daemon
277 * Abandoned compatibility with python 2.5 (urllib2.urlopen timeout)
278 * Add daemon cli option to daemonize the process (closes #616)
279 * Add a Makefile (install, uninstall targets) following GNU standards.
280 * Refactored queue_mode method, thanks MsieurHappy ;)
281 * Moved Track class to separate file.
282 * Reduce memory footprint (better simafm cache handling).
284 * Fixed a bug in database management, cleaning database performs better
286 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 08 May 2011 14:06:22 +0200
291 * Fixes a bug introduced fixing #2113, history was no longer honored!
293 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:54:53 +0100
298 * Add Makefile from 0.8 dev branch
302 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:17:18 +0100
307 * Stall queueing when MPD is in "single" or "repeat" mode (closes #1607)
308 * No longer need to restart MPD_sima when MPD database has been updated, it
309 was necessary to have new entries to appear in MPD_sima (closes #1719).
310 * New database version, upgraded at first start (back up done in sima.db.0.6)
311 * Uses SQLite for history. Play history always saved, not anymore optional.
312 * simadb_cli uses MPD_HOST/MPD_PORT environment variables
314 * New mpd_sima CLI option --var_dir to change default ${XDG_DATA_HOME}
315 Allows to launch the script as a "system service" (closes #1738)
318 * Autoqueue not anymore stall when started without internet access (closes
320 * Fixed a bug with MPD_(HOST|PORT), env. var. only used when no host/port are
321 set in the config file.
323 Configuration file changes:
324 * New "history_duration" option
325 * Remove "history" & "history_length" options, replace by "history_duration"
327 * Remove "top_tracks" option, now use "queue" option with "top" value.
328 * New consume option (closes #1576)
329 * New queue mode "album" (closes #1008)
330 * New option "album_to_queue" to set how many albums to queue
331 * New option "single_album" allowing to force queuing track from different
332 albums, for instance it'll avoid to end up playing a whole OST.
334 (cf. <doc/examples/all_settings.cfg> for all options available)
336 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:11:12 +0100
341 * Use of SQLite (closes #838)
342 * [simadb_cli] new command line interface to edit sima.db (SQLite database)
343 * [mpd_sima.py] New command line option to load a specific configuration file
344 * Removed pyscrobbler module, now uses SimaFM (closes #741)
345 * Cache is no longer managed as it was (because of SimaFM), it isn't
346 possible to save it (advanced "cache" option removed).
347 last.fm request caching is still enabled though.
348 Saving last.fm request to file is milestoned 0.6.1
349 * Create documentation (docbook -> {troff,pdf,(x)html})
350 * Convert to unicode all utf-8/legacy code (closes #839)
351 * Re-Licenced the code under GNU GPL.
353 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 10 May 2010 19:40:10 +0200
358 * New fuzzy string matching dedicated to artist names (closes #686)
359 * uses optparse instead of getopt (closes #834)
360 * now sets options with built-in default, then configuration file and finally
362 * Fixes the “deprecated 'md5'” warning in audioscrobbler.py with patch
363 provided in bug report #11 (closes #1144) – cf. pyscrobbler online:
364 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler
366 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:01:22 +0100
371 * No longer uses/writes a default conf file in ~/.config/mpd_sima (or XDG
372 default), MPD_HOST is used if no conf file is present.
373 * replace exhaustive loops by generator
376 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:13:08 +0100
381 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist (closes #739).
382 * Now prefer non played over already played artist is possible (closes #774)
383 * Use of %-age of similarity to get the list of similar (closes #740).
384 * nearly all Unicode (closes #742).
385 * Using dequeu object => ** New history/cache/user_db formats. **
386 * Heavy refactoring, new Track object.
387 * Improved fuzzy search for artists in MPD library (using difflib/levenshtein)
388 * Log to file within python script (closes #815), add --log=<file> option.
389 * Removed bashism & improved portability in shell launcher, thanks ksh@vim-fr ;)
391 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:02:02 +0100
396 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist
397 * Better list of similar artists thanks to %-age of similarity… hopefully
400 -- kaliko jack Unreleased / abandoned dev branch
405 * New bash wrapper launch.sh to execute the script
406 * User's database for similar artists through a new conf file user_db_cfg.
407 Refer to examples for syntax.
408 * check playlist queue to add tracks, not only history.
409 * Rename history to history.pkl
410 * add new command line options, help and version.
411 * now look for MPD_HOST MPD_PORT env variable to create default conf file
412 * run main loop even if the same track is playing, hence MPD_sima will keep
413 adding new tracks even if the same track is still playing and stops only if
414 the target is reached (ie. queue_length)
416 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:10:09 +0200
421 * WARNING: Moved to python-mpd instead of python-mpdclient2
422 * Add cache for last.fm request
423 * Possibility to save cache to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
424 * new src directory layout
425 * Improved log output formatting
426 * Imroved code & removed old unused method
427 * Controls availability of commands right after conn/auth
428 * New pyscroobler version (revision 5), fix bug with slash in names.
430 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:10:47 +0200
433 MPD_sima v0.1.1 (first upgrade)
435 * HEAVY refactoring to improve coding style (thanks pylint).
436 * intercept audioScrobbler server connexion errors (no longer stops
437 mpd_sima). Issue/bug reported:
438 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler/issues/detail?id=7
439 * now cath SIGTERM signal along with SIGINT (keyborad interupt)
440 * save history to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
441 * add --pid option to python script
442 * correct launch.sh accordingly
443 * new date format for the log
445 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:35:25 +0200
448 MPD_sima v0.1.0 (first stable release)
450 * First quasi stable release (my first python code…)
452 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:03 +0200
454 # vim: fileencoding=utf-8
455 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-