3 * Remove EchoNest support (Closes #10)
4 * Enhanced queuing behavior in random mode (Closes #16)
5 * Add option to prevent single & repeat mode to disable queuing (Closes #19)
6 * Honor MPC password/host format on command line option 'host'
7 * Fixed fuzzy search for short artist names
8 * Client side hardcoded one month caching (ugly workaround for #7)
10 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> UNRELEASED
14 * Fixed blacklisting for Random plugin (Closes #14)
15 * Fixed sensible flavour of random plugin, thanks dnmx (Closes #15)
17 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:46:14 +0200
22 * This release in only intended to get rid of 0.14.2 source tarball.
23 Source tar ball for v0.14.2 was badly generated. Release 0.14.2 and 0.14.3
24 are actually the same source code, only generated tar were affected.
25 Sorry for the inconvenience.
27 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:49:03 +0100
32 * Fixed MPD client cache (filters empty strings)
33 * Fixed Track object to work with MPD >= 0.20 (Closes #12)
34 * Fixed python virtualenv installer
36 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 11 Feb 2017 13:04:27 +0100
41 * Prevent adding empty track to history (Closes #5)
42 * Fixed false warning about wrong MBID format (Closes #6)
44 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:03:39 +0100
49 * Add option to generate config on stdout
50 * Add priority feature for plugins
51 * More robust MPD client
52 * Fixed top track mode
53 * Fixed default conf file name (back to mpd_sima.cfg)
54 * Fixed http cache for lastFM
55 * Cleanup code (removed users similarities)
56 * Make "var-dir" option default name instead of "var_dir"
57 * Honor HTTP_PROXY env. var. (need requests >2.4.0)
59 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:48:41 +0200
64 * Use of MusicBrainzIdentifier by default
65 Please consider tagging your library with these metadata
66 * New virtualenv installer in pure python
68 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:20:49 +0100
73 * Use albumartist to fetch similar artists
74 * Fixed some bugs managing tags
76 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:42:15 +0100
81 * Add some randomness to track selection
82 * Do not queue artists already queued (regression)
83 * Some refactoring in http client
85 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:47:56 +0200
90 * Fixed SIGHUP error, need python-musicpd >= 0.4.1
91 * Add core plugin to detect multiple MPD_sima instance on the same MPD host
92 * Fixed startup robustness
93 * Removed timestamp in console logging
95 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:02:17 +0200
101 * Add a setup.py, got rid of the Makefile.
102 * Switched to Python3 (>=3.2)
103 * Depends on requests (http client)
104 * Depends on python-musicpd (py3k port of python-mpd)
105 configuration file change
106 internal database remains the same
107 * Temporarily removed userdb feature
108 * Base artist for similarity is the last track queued
109 * Persistent http caching
111 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:37:14 +0200
116 * straight forward py3k conversion from v0.10.0
118 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> UNRELEASED
123 * Improved album detection (especially multi-artists album)
124 * Controls conf file is readable at startup
125 * Complete rewrite of MPD client
127 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:56:57 +0200
132 * Fixed Makefile, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2849 #2848)
134 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:06:27 +0100
139 * Fixed an issue in idle implementation
141 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:04:39 +0100
146 * New CLI option --create-db
147 * Option main_loop_time removed, use of idle makes it useless
148 * New config file option "dynamic" (fixes #2593)
151 * Start player abstraction, new MPD class (fixes #2418)
152 * Use idle MPD command, needs python-mpd >= 0.3
155 * PID file creation now respects system umask (fixes #2368)
156 * Avoid to queue twice the same album (fixes #2595)
157 * Empty password does not trigger auth attempt (fixes #2543)
158 * Fixed --var_dir option, thanks Artur Frysiak (fixes #2796)
161 * Improved execution time in tracks history look up mainly.
162 * Switch to python-daemon 0.4
164 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:31:57 +0100
169 * New CLI option "--daemon" to run as a daemon
171 * Abandoned compatibility with python 2.5 (urllib2.urlopen timeout)
172 * Add daemon cli option to daemonize the process (closes #616)
173 * Add a Makefile (install, uninstall targets) following GNU standards.
174 * Refactored queue_mode method, thanks MsieurHappy ;)
175 * Moved Track class to separate file.
176 * Reduce memory footprint (better simafm cache handling).
178 * Fixed a bug in database management, cleaning database performs better
180 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 08 May 2011 14:06:22 +0200
185 * Fixes a bug introduced fixing #2113, history was no longer honored!
187 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:54:53 +0100
192 * Add Makefile from 0.8 dev branch
196 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:17:18 +0100
201 * Stall queueing when MPD is in "single" or "repeat" mode (closes #1607)
202 * No longer need to restart MPD_sima when MPD database has been updated, it
203 was necessary to have new entries to appear in MPD_sima (closes #1719).
204 * New database version, upgraded at first start (back up done in sima.db.0.6)
205 * Uses SQLite for history. Play history always saved, not anymore optional.
206 * simadb_cli uses MPD_HOST/MPD_PORT environment variables
208 * New mpd_sima CLI option --var_dir to change default ${XDG_DATA_HOME}
209 Allows to launch the script as a "system service" (closes #1738)
212 * Autoqueue not anymore stall when started without internet access (closes
214 * Fixed a bug with MPD_(HOST|PORT), env. var. only used when no host/port are
215 set in the config file.
217 Configuration file changes:
218 * New "history_duration" option
219 * Remove "history" & "history_length" options, replace by "history_duration"
221 * Remove "top_tracks" option, now use "queue" option with "top" value.
222 * New consume option (closes #1576)
223 * New queue mode "album" (closes #1008)
224 * New option "album_to_queue" to set how many albums to queue
225 * New option "single_album" allowing to force queuing track from different
226 albums, for instance it'll avoid to end up playing a whole OST.
228 (cf. <doc/examples/all_settings.cfg> for all options available)
230 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:11:12 +0100
235 * Use of SQLite (closes #838)
236 * [simadb_cli] new command line interface to edit sima.db (SQLite database)
237 * [mpd_sima.py] New command line option to load a specific configuration file
238 * Removed pyscrobbler module, now uses SimaFM (closes #741)
239 * Cache is no longer managed as it was (because of SimaFM), it isn't
240 possible to save it (advanced "cache" option removed).
241 last.fm request caching is still enabled though.
242 Saving last.fm request to file is milestoned 0.6.1
243 * Create documentation (docbook -> {troff,pdf,(x)html})
244 * Convert to unicode all utf-8/legacy code (closes #839)
245 * Re-Licenced the code under GNU GPL.
247 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Mon, 10 May 2010 19:40:10 +0200
252 * New fuzzy string matching dedicated to artist names (closes #686)
253 * uses optparse instead of getopt (closes #834)
254 * now sets options with built-in default, then configuration file and finally
256 * Fixes the “deprecated 'md5'” warning in audioscrobbler.py with patch
257 provided in bug report #11 (closes #1144) – cf. pyscrobbler online:
258 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler
260 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:01:22 +0100
265 * No longer uses/writes a default conf file in ~/.config/mpd_sima (or XDG
266 default), MPD_HOST is used if no conf file is present.
267 * replace exhaustive loops by generator
270 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:13:08 +0100
275 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist (closes #739).
276 * Now prefer non played over already played artist is possible (closes #774)
277 * Use of %-age of similarity to get the list of similar (closes #740).
278 * nearly all Unicode (closes #742).
279 * Using dequeu object => ** New history/cache/user_db formats. **
280 * Heavy refactoring, new Track object.
281 * Improved fuzzy search for artists in MPD library (using difflib/levenshtein)
282 * Log to file within python script (closes #815), add --log=<file> option.
283 * Removed bashism & improved portability in shell launcher, thanks ksh@vim-fr ;)
285 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:02:02 +0100
290 * Add option to play only most popular songs from an artist
291 * Better list of similar artists thanks to %-age of similarity… hopefully
294 -- kaliko jack Unreleased / abandoned dev branch
299 * New bash wrapper launch.sh to execute the script
300 * User's database for similar artists through a new conf file user_db_cfg.
301 Refer to examples for syntax.
302 * check playlist queue to add tracks, not only history.
303 * Rename history to history.pkl
304 * add new command line options, help and version.
305 * now look for MPD_HOST MPD_PORT env variable to create default conf file
306 * run main loop even if the same track is playing, hence MPD_sima will keep
307 adding new tracks even if the same track is still playing and stops only if
308 the target is reached (ie. queue_length)
310 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:10:09 +0200
315 * WARNING: Moved to python-mpd instead of python-mpdclient2
316 * Add cache for last.fm request
317 * Possibility to save cache to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
318 * new src directory layout
319 * Improved log output formatting
320 * Imroved code & removed old unused method
321 * Controls availability of commands right after conn/auth
322 * New pyscroobler version (revision 5), fix bug with slash in names.
324 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:10:47 +0200
327 MPD_sima v0.1.1 (first upgrade)
329 * HEAVY refactoring to improve coding style (thanks pylint).
330 * intercept audioScrobbler server connexion errors (no longer stops
331 mpd_sima). Issue/bug reported:
332 http://code.google.com/p/pyscrobbler/issues/detail?id=7
333 * now cath SIGTERM signal along with SIGINT (keyborad interupt)
334 * save history to file (new option in mpd_sima.cfg)
335 * add --pid option to python script
336 * correct launch.sh accordingly
337 * new date format for the log
339 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:35:25 +0200
342 MPD_sima v0.1.0 (first stable release)
344 * First quasi stable release (my first python code…)
346 -- kaliko jack <kaliko@azylum.org> Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:03 +0200
348 # vim: fileencoding=utf-8
349 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-