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