3 * New offline autoqueue plugin based on file tags only
4 * Expose a new executable "test-tags-config"
5 * Update vinstall.py (closes #34)
6 * Fixed bug when http client fetches a corrupted cached entry (closes #35)
7 * Need at least python 3.6
9 -- kaliko <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:17:05 +0100
13 * Major MPD client refactoring
14 * Refactored random plugin
15 * Fixed bug in MPD client reconnection
17 -- kaliko <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 16 May 2020 14:49:04 +0200
21 * Improve HTTP client (use persistent connection)
22 * Fixed a serious bug in PlayerClient().search_albums()
23 "search_albums" method was ignoring some albums when Artist object had
26 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 03 May 2020 16:30:36 +0200
30 * Fixed sqlite sqlite3.OperationalError VACUUM Error
31 cf. https://bugs.python.org/issue28518
32 * Add option to queue a chosen number of tracks from an album (closes #28)
33 * Add option to shuffle tracks in album mode (Thanks Sacha)
35 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:41:22 +0100
39 * Fixed mopidy compatibility implementation
41 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:14:48 +0100
45 * Remove EchoNest support (Closes #10)
46 * Enhanced queuing behavior in random mode (Closes #16)
47 * Add option to prevent single & repeat mode to disable queuing (Closes #19)
48 * Honor MPC password/host format on command line option 'host'
49 * Fixed fuzzy search for short artist names
50 * Client side hardcoded one month caching (ugly workaround for #7)
51 * Simplified album search
52 * Track search aggregates artist name and MusicBrainzID searches
53 * Add an undocumented mopidy compatibility configuration option
54 Use the boolean option "mopidy_compat" in the sima section
55 cf. https://gitlab.com/kaliko/sima/issues/21#
57 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:58:49 +0100
61 * Fixed blacklisting for Random plugin (Closes #14)
62 * Fixed sensible flavour of random plugin, thanks dnmx (Closes #15)
64 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:46:14 +0200
69 * This release in only intended to get rid of 0.14.2 source tarball.
70 Source tar ball for v0.14.2 was badly generated. Release 0.14.2 and 0.14.3
71 are actually the same source code, only generated tar were affected.
72 Sorry for the inconvenience.
74 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:49:03 +0100
79 * Fixed MPD client cache (filters empty strings)
80 * Fixed Track object to work with MPD >= 0.20 (Closes #12)
81 * Fixed python virtualenv installer
83 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 11 Feb 2017 13:04:27 +0100
88 * Prevent adding empty track to history (Closes #5)
89 * Fixed false warning about wrong MBID format (Closes #6)
91 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:03:39 +0100
96 * Add option to generate config on stdout
97 * Add priority feature for plugins
98 * More robust MPD client
99 * Fixed top track mode
100 * Fixed default conf file name (back to mpd_sima.cfg)
101 * Fixed http cache for lastFM
102 * Cleanup code (removed users similarities)
103 * Make "var-dir" option default name instead of "var_dir"
104 * Honor HTTP_PROXY env. var. (need requests >2.4.0)
106 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:48:41 +0200
111 * Use of MusicBrainzIdentifier by default
112 Please consider tagging your library with these metadata
113 * New virtualenv installer in pure python
115 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:20:49 +0100
120 * Use albumartist to fetch similar artists
121 * Fixed some bugs managing tags
123 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:42:15 +0100
128 * Add some randomness to track selection
129 * Do not queue artists already queued (regression)
130 * Some refactoring in http client
132 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:47:56 +0200
137 * Fixed SIGHUP error, need python-musicpd >= 0.4.1
138 * Add core plugin to detect multiple MPD_sima instance on the same MPD host
139 * Fixed startup robustness
140 * Removed timestamp in console logging
142 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:02:17 +0200
148 * Add a setup.py, got rid of the Makefile.
149 * Switched to Python3 (>=3.2)
150 * Depends on requests (http client)
151 * Depends on python-musicpd (py3k port of python-mpd)
152 configuration file change
153 internal database remains the same
154 * Temporarily removed userdb feature
155 * Base artist for similarity is the last track queued
156 * Persistent http caching
158 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:37:14 +0200
163 * straight forward py3k conversion from v0.10.0
165 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> UNRELEASED
170 * Improved album detection (especially multi-artists album)
171 * Controls conf file is readable at startup
172 * Complete rewrite of MPD client
174 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:56:57 +0200
179 * Fixed Makefile, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2849 #2848)
181 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:06:27 +0100
186 * Fixed an issue in idle implementation
188 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:04:39 +0100
193 * New CLI option --create-db
194 * Option main_loop_time removed, use of idle makes it useless
195 * New config file option "dynamic" (fixes #2593)
198 * Start player abstraction, new MPD class (fixes #2418)
199 * Use idle MPD command, needs python-mpd >= 0.3
202 * PID file creation now respects system umask (fixes #2368)
203 * Avoid to queue twice the same album (fixes #2595)
204 * Empty password does not trigger auth attempt (fixes #2543)
205 * Fixed --var_dir option, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2796)
208 * Improved execution time in tracks history look up mainly.
209 * Switch to python-daemon 0.4
211 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:31:57 +0100
216 * New CLI option "--daemon" to run as a daemon
218 * Abandoned compatibility with python 2.5 (urllib2.urlopen timeout)
219 * Add daemon cli option to daemonize the process (closes #616)
220 * Add a Makefile (install, uninstall targets) following GNU standards.
221 * Refactored queue_mode method, thanks MsieurHappy ;)
222 * Moved Track class to separate file.
223 * Reduce memory footprint (better simafm cache handling).
225 * Fixed a bug in database management, cleaning database performs better
227 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 08 May 2011 14:06:22 +0200
232 * Fixes a bug introduced fixing #2113, history was no longer honored!
234 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:54:53 +0100
239 * Add Makefile from 0.8 dev branch
243 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:17:18 +0100
248 * Stall queueing when MPD is in "single" or "repeat" mode (closes #1607)
249 * No longer need to restart MPD_sima when MPD database has been updated, it
250 was necessary to have new entries to appear in MPD_sima (closes #1719).
251 * New database version, upgraded at first start (back up done in sima.db.0.6)
252 * Uses SQLite for history. Play history always saved, not anymore optional.
253 * simadb_cli uses MPD_HOST/MPD_PORT environment variables
255 * New mpd_sima CLI option --var_dir to change default ${XDG_DATA_HOME}
256 Allows to launch the script as a "system service" (closes #1738)
259 * Autoqueue not anymore stall when started without internet access (closes
261 * Fixed a bug with MPD_(HOST|PORT), env. var. only used when no host/port are
262 set in the config file.
264 Configuration file changes:
265 * New "history_duration" option
266 * Remove "history" & "history_length" options, replace by "history_duration"
268 * Remove "top_tracks" option, now use "queue" option with "top" value.
269 * New consume option (closes #1576)
270 * New queue mode "album" (closes #1008)
271 * New option "album_to_queue" to set how many albums to queue
272 * New option "single_album" allowing to force queuing track from different
273 albums, for instance it'll avoid to end up playing a whole OST.
275 (cf. <doc/examples/all_settings.cfg> for all options available)
277 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:11:12 +0100
282 * Use of SQLite (closes #838)
283 * [simadb_cli] new command line interface to edit sima.db (SQLite database)
284 * [mpd_sima.py] New command line option to load a specific configuration file
285 * Removed pyscrobbler module, now uses SimaFM (closes #741)
286 * Cache is no longer managed as it was (because of SimaFM), it isn't
287 possible to save it (advanced "cache" option removed).
288 last.fm request caching is still enabled though.
289 Saving last.fm request to file is milestoned 0.6.1
290 * Create documentation (docbook -> {troff,pdf,(x)html})
291 * Convert to unicode all utf-8/legacy code (closes #839)
292 * Re-Licenced the code under GNU GPL.
294 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 10 May 2010 19:40:10 +0200
299 * New fuzzy string matching dedicated to artist names (closes #686)
300 * uses optparse instead of getopt (closes #834)
301 * now sets options with built-in default, then configuration file and finally
303 * Fixes the “deprecated 'md5'” warning in audioscrobbler.py with patch
304 provided in bug report #11 (closes #1144) – cf. pyscrobbler online:
305 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler
307 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:01:22 +0100
312 * No longer uses/writes a default conf file in ~/.config/mpd_sima (or XDG
313 default), MPD_HOST is used if no conf file is present.
314 * replace exhaustive loops by generator
317 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:13:08 +0100
322 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist (closes #739).
323 * Now prefer non played over already played artist is possible (closes #774)
324 * Use of %-age of similarity to get the list of similar (closes #740).
325 * nearly all Unicode (closes #742).
326 * Using dequeu object => ** New history/cache/user_db formats. **
327 * Heavy refactoring, new Track object.
328 * Improved fuzzy search for artists in MPD library (using difflib/levenshtein)
329 * Log to file within python script (closes #815), add --log=<file> option.
330 * Removed bashism & improved portability in shell launcher, thanks ksh@vim-fr ;)
332 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:02:02 +0100
337 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist
338 * Better list of similar artists thanks to %-age of similarity… hopefully
341 -- kaliko jack Unreleased / abandoned dev branch
346 * New bash wrapper launch.sh to execute the script
347 * User's database for similar artists through a new conf file user_db_cfg.
348 Refer to examples for syntax.
349 * check playlist queue to add tracks, not only history.
350 * Rename history to history.pkl
351 * add new command line options, help and version.
352 * now look for MPD_HOST MPD_PORT env variable to create default conf file
353 * run main loop even if the same track is playing, hence MPD_sima will keep
354 adding new tracks even if the same track is still playing and stops only if
355 the target is reached (ie. queue_length)
357 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:10:09 +0200
362 * WARNING: Moved to python-mpd instead of python-mpdclient2
363 * Add cache for last.fm request
364 * Possibility to save cache to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
365 * new src directory layout
366 * Improved log output formatting
367 * Imroved code & removed old unused method
368 * Controls availability of commands right after conn/auth
369 * New pyscroobler version (revision 5), fix bug with slash in names.
371 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:10:47 +0200
374 MPD_sima v0.1.1 (first upgrade)
376 * HEAVY refactoring to improve coding style (thanks pylint).
377 * intercept audioScrobbler server connexion errors (no longer stops
378 mpd_sima). Issue/bug reported:
379 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler/issues/detail?id=7
380 * now cath SIGTERM signal along with SIGINT (keyborad interupt)
381 * save history to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
382 * add --pid option to python script
383 * correct launch.sh accordingly
384 * new date format for the log
386 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:35:25 +0200
389 MPD_sima v0.1.0 (first stable release)
391 * First quasi stable release (my first python code…)
393 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:03 +0200
395 # vim: fileencoding=utf-8
396 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-