News Archive 2014

MPD 0.19.7 and 0.18.21 released

Music Player Daemon 0.19.7 has been released.

It fixes bugs in the embedded CUE sheet parser, the ffmpeg decoder plugin, the listplaylist protocol command and a whole bunch of bugs in the NFS client. On the Windows port, a serious crash bug was fixed.

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For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.21 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log

MPD 0.19.6 and 0.18.20 released

Music Player Daemon 0.19.6 has been released.

It fixes a build failure with musl and the ffmpeg decoder plugin is now compatible with the new FFmpeg version 2.5.

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For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.20 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log

MPD 0.19.5 and 0.18.19 released

Music Player Daemon 0.19.5 has been released.

It fixes crash and deadlock bugs in the plugins nfs, zzip, dsdiff, dsf and opus. The mp4v2 decoder plugin had to be removed due to a license conflict (MPL 1.1 is not compatible with the GPL).

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For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.19 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log

MPD 0.19.4 and 0.18.18 released

Music Player Daemon 0.19.4 has been released.

It fixes a crash bug that can occur on malformed file names. The ffmpeg decoder now supports the Opus codec, and the opus decoder recognizes more MIME types.

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For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.18 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log

MPD 0.19.3 released

Music Player Daemon 0.19.3 has been released.

It fixes bugs in the upnp database plugin, the audiofile decoder and the soxr resampler. The opus decoder can now play chained streams.

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MPD 0.19.2 and 0.18.17 released

Music Player Daemon 0.19.2 has been released.

It fixes various bugs: a crash in the faad plugin, playback of redirected streams and streams with query string, negative replay gain values in the mad plugin, problems with native DSD playback. It adds support for *.m3u8 and audio/aacp.

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For conservative users, Music Player Daemon 0.18.17 has been released. It contains backports of the above bug fixes (if applicable). Change log

MPD 0.19.1 released

Music Player Daemon 0.19.1 has been released.

It adds the systemd socket file that was missing in the 0.19 tarball, fixes bugs in the mms input plugin and the m3u playlist plugins.

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MPD 0.19 released

Music Player Daemon 0.19 has been released.

There is a large number of improvements and new features. Some of the major ones:

  • access NFS or SMB/CIFS servers as music_directory (in userspace, without having to mount them)
  • the proxy database plugin forwards idle events and update commands
  • database compression with gzip
  • native DSD playback
  • DSD512 and multi-channel DSD support
  • new mp3 encoder plugin using libshine
  • new resampler using libsoxr
  • various power consumption and latency optimizations

As usual, a more detailed list of changes can be found in the NEWS file:

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MPD 0.18.16 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.16 has been released.

It fixes a DSD breakage due to a typo in the previous release.

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MPD 0.18.15 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.15 has been released.

It fixes a problem with large command lists, fixes an old breakage of the MixRamp feature, and works around a build failure on NetBSD.

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MPD 0.18.14 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.14 has been released.

It fixes a crash bug with ffmpeg/libav version 11, two more crash bugs related to seeking, and a range parser bug on certain 32 bit architectures (such as ARM).

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MPD 0.18.13 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.13 has been released.

It fixes several DSD playback bugs, a bug in the periodic state file saver and a bug in the seekcur protocol command.

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MPD 0.18.12 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.12 has been released.

It fixes two build failures with the proxy database plugins and improves stream playback with the decoder plugins audiofile, dsdiff, dsf, faad and sndfile. Two improvements to the “random” mode ensure that the first and second song being played are really random.

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ncmpc 0.24 released

ncmpc 0.24 has been released. It fixes a crash when using the “jump” feature (hotkey “.”). Change log

ncmpc 0.23 released

ncmpc 0.23 has been released. The tarball contains the PO files that were missing in the previous release. Change log

ncmpc 0.22 released

mpc 0.26 released

mpc 0.26 has been released. It fixes a crash when adding absolute paths. The playlist command can now show the contents of stored playlists. The search command supports --format.

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MPD 0.18.11 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.11 has been released.

It fixes a race condition on non-Linux operating systems, disturbing the database update and more. The opus decoder plugin now properly recognizes song durations on high-latency files.

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MPD 0.18.10 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.10 has been released.

It fixes several minor bugs in the decoder plugins ffmpeg, gme and sndfile. Playback doesn’t get interrupted anymore when the current song gets deleted.

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MPD 0.18.9 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.9 has been released.

It improves the previous workaround for the Raspberry Pi audio driver bug, eliminating noise during song change. Child processes launched by the “pipe” output plugin no longer ignore signals. Several build failures have been fixed.

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MPD on Android

Music Player Daemon is finally being ported to Android! A first preview for the brave has been uploaded to Google Play.

At this early stage of development, the app is not particularly useful. There is no user interface, the service is not well integrated into the Android operating system, and all it can do is play HTTP streams (MP3, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC). Stay tuned for updates!

MPD 0.18.8 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.8 has been released.

It improves the Icy metadata parser, adds support for libav v10_alpha2 API changes and fixes two build failures: one with the Vorbis encoder and another one on Solaris.

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MPD 0.18.7 released

Music Player Daemon 0.18.7 has been released.

It fixes a crash in the pls playlist plugin and a memory leak in the faad decoder plugin. Supplementary groups are only initalized when MPD is started by user root.

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