News Archive 2013

Music Player Daemon 0.18.6 has been released.

It fixes various minor bugs, one build failure with uClibc and two build failures on Mac OS X.

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Music Player Daemon 0.18.5 has been released.

It fixes more byte order bugs and build failures. The “curl” input plugin now works around a libcurl bug that was fixed in version 7.32.0. A clipping bug with resampling 24 bit audio was fixed. The “proxy” database plugin has learned to forward the “db_update” attribute.

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Music Player Daemon 0.18.4 has been released.

It fixes a byte order bug in the dsdiff decoder plugin and a few build failures. In particular, it is now possible to build MPD with libc++.

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mpc 0.25 has been released. It fixes a problem with the insert command and optimizes the tab completion commands.

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Music Player Daemon 0.18.3 has been released.

A nasty regression in yesterday’s 0.18.2 (revealing an old bug that was invisible for many years) made this release necessary. Sorry for the hiccup.

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Music Player Daemon 0.18.2 has been released.

It fixes more bugs: properly follow HTTP redirects on radio streams, correct song order in PLS playlists, flush output buffer before handling the “close” command, big-endian support.

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From now on, git tags and release tarballs will be signed with GPG key C6DB4512.

Music Player Daemon 0.18.1 has been released.

It fixes various bugs: one playback with volume normalization enabled, an ALSA endless loop, whitespace problems in the protocol parser and a few networking tweaks.

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Music Player Daemon 0.18 has been released.

Internally, the code base has been rewritten from C99 to C++11, which improves code readability and maintainability.

Support for the Opus codec has been added, both decoder and encoder.

The protocol has been extended to allow reading arbitrary tags (e.g. Vorbis comments). “find” and “search” can be limited to a portion of the filesystem tree. The “volume” command has been re-added.

Library dependencies have been updated. Various obsolete plugins have been removed (e.g. soup, mp4ff, ffado).

Countless small improvements: turn off timer wakeups while idle to reduce battery usage; MPD is no longer unresponsive while waiting for a stream; improved error reporting; and so on.

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libmpdclient 2.9 has been released. It adds support for the upcoming MPD 0.18 protocol. Change log

mpc 0.24 has been released. It fixes various minor bugs and also adds support for MPD 0.18. Change log

MPD version 0.17.6 has been released. It fixes an ALSA/USB bug, a modplug build failure and two problems with stored playlists.

MPD version 0.17.5 has been released. It fixes two protocol bugs and a crash in the mikmod decoder plugin.

ncmpc 0.21 has been released. Change log

mpc 0.23 has been released. Change log

libmpdclient 2.8 has been released. It extends support for song priorities.

MPD version 0.17.4 has been released. It fixes a few protocol bugs and problems with the ffmpeg/libav decoder plugin.

The MPD website has been relaunched. Wikia has been hosting the MPD website for a few years, but Wikia turned out to be an annoying experience for many visitors. Lacking a real maintainer, the wiki grew into a confusing mess over the years, making it harder and harder to find the answer to a given problem. The goal is now to move helpful information from the old wiki to the user manual (which nobody knew it existed).

The new website is being managed with nanoc (LWN article). If you want to help, clone the git repository and send a pull request. The user manual is managed in the MPD git repository.

Version 0.5.1 of python-mpd2 supports mpd ranges. Download it from github or install it from pypi

The previous forum went up in flames, and for a while we had nobody willing to step up and set up a new one. No longer! A fresh new forum is now available: http://forum.musicpd.org/ – the old data is gone, but signing up again takes just a minute or two.

Version 0.5.0 of python-mpd2 lists improvements in support for stickers. Download it from github

Version 1.3.0 of Quimup has been released. Many new features and fixes (changelog). Downloads are available from sourceforge.

MPD Version 0.17.3 has been released.