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