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