NEWS.rst

News

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Added

• Information page displays artist name and album image #172

Changed

Removed

[1.15.0] - 2024-12-08

Added

• Spanish and Tamoul translations #187

Changed

• Update Gnome runtime and other dependencies #186
• Add track image to desktop notification and set a 5s timeout #185
• Weblate is used to host translations #179
• Support playlists without date of last modification #177
• Check whether Mopidy server is reachable #181

[1.14.0] - 2024-07-20

Added

• Scan local network for Mopidy HTTP services, and propose to use such service address when one has been discovered #175
• Apply user custom styles found at .config/argos/style.css #173
• Home button in title bar to go back to library's default directory #169

Changed

• Update of Flatpak runtime and dependencies #178
• Welcome dialog now opens the preferences dialog on validation #176
• CLI argument to hide close button #174
• The exposed action update-library now takes a parameter to specify the URI of the directory to update #149
• The back button now behaves as hierarchy traversal, not history (sure I am not clear with that formulation 😔) #171
• Moved album and artist information from popover to the left panel #170
• Improved speed of library filter #166
• Fixed filtering text is not kept when browsing an album details #167
• Playlist names aren't elided at an arbitrary length anymore #162

[1.13.0] - 2023-12-31

Added

• Missing dependency in DEB package #157
• Button to change tracks order in tracks view #156
• Display volume button on playing box (if it makes sense to control volume) #145
• Dialog to enter name of playlist to create #45

Changed

• Ctrl+W close the application window, Escape closes the preferences dialog (like other dialogs) #155
• Lower page step of volume button scale for fine tuning volume #145
• CSS name of track length box has been changed from track_length_box to track-length-box; CSS name of volume buttons is set to condensed-playing-box-volume-button and playing-box-volume-button #145
• Fix possible exception when exiting directory containing albums #144

[1.12.0] - 2023-05-11

Added

• Playlist tracks use names set in playlists #137
• Download images for directories #136

Changed

• Fix type error while sorting library #139
• Various minor fixes applied while writing automatic tests #138

Removed

• Image requests aren't cached anymore since images are written to file system #140

[1.11.0] - 2023-03-02

Added

• Added Dutch translation #135

[1.10.0] - 2023-02-26

Added

• Complete actions exposed through D-Bus #134
• Progress bar to track directory completion progress #132
• Choice to randomly generate a tracklist with length constraint #131
• Setting for the strategy used to select random tracks (default to random disc tracks) #130

Changed

• Avoid running concurrent tasks browsing the same directory #133
• Removing selected tracks don't remove all tracks when empty selection #128
• Fix parse error when saving playlists that haven't been loaded #128
• Smarter dates in history playlist #129

[1.9.0] - 2023-01-30

Added

• Delete keys remove tracks from tracklist or playlist #118
• Browsing a directory with tracks only now displays a view with usual actions on tracks #125
• A generic backend is added to display any directory #123

Changed

• Only albums handled by Mopidy-Podcast are filtered out from random choice candidates #123
• The Tracks directory exposed by Mopidy-Local isn't hidden anymore (better configure Mopidy-Local, see configuration key named directories) #123
• Refresh library updates visited directory #115

[1.8.0] - 2023-01-16

Added

• HTTP session can use a SQLite cache when library aiohttp_client_cache is installed #111
• Generic library browser supporting Mopidy-File #110
• Support for Mopidy-SomaFM #107

Changed

• Library browsing execute in a task to allow other tasks to run #57
• Default is now to enable all backends #110
• Artist name is extracted from album name for Mopidy-Bandcamp albums #110

Removed

• Recent playlist has been removed since Mopidy-Local exposes directories for last month and last week additions #110

[1.7.0] - 2022-12-31

Added

• Click on a disc number separator selects the corresponding album tracks #108
• Information service collecting abstracts of album and artist pages from Wikipedia #78

Changed

• Take user locale into account when comparing strings #105
• Display close button in titlebar when window isn't fullscreen #104

[1.6.0] - 2022-12-12

Added

• Support fullscreen #102
• Display album name in bottom widget #101
• Display time position in bottom widget #94

Changed

• Labels automatically elide text #99
• Fix history playlist displaying more than "history max length" tracks #97

Removed

• Removed start-maximized setting (use window's menu to toggle window state which is automatically restored at startup or use the new setting start-fullscreen) #102

[1.5.0] - 2022-12-05

Added

• Bottom widget showing playing state #93
• Preference dialog switch to activate dark theme #89
• Add button to title bar to change album sort order #85
• New "by last modified date" entry in album sort choices #84
• Display disc numbers in album track list #82
• Display date in history playlist #81
• Setting to change size of images in albums window #77

Changed

• Preference dialog switch to start maximized, replace command line option #90
• Use dialog to display random chosen album before enqueuing #88
• Don't clear albums search filter when entering album details page (reopened) #46
• Center vertically playing track image and album image #87
• Toggle visibility of title bar search and sort buttons on main page change #85
• Fix duplicated tracks for albums handled by MopidyPodcastBackend #83
• Reorganize preferences dialog #77
• History playlist can contain duplicated tracks #80

Removed

• Remove "needs attention" support since playback state is now always visible #93
• Remove album sort choice from preferences dialog #86

[1.4.0] - 2022-10-19

Added

• German translation #63
• Welcome dialog for users to direct users to the preferences dialog #43
• CSS identifiers to allow for style customization #72
• Display labels with links when tracklist is empty #71
• Fix playlist widgets sensitivity in preferences dialog #70
• Display placeholder for empty tracks box of playlist #61

Changed

• Simplify playlists box layout #74
• Reorganize preferences dialog to fix album sort selection #54
• "Add stream to tracklist" action replaces "play stream" action, and choice is given to play stream immediately or not #68
• Complete desktop and AppStream metadata file #62
• Handle tracks without name #66
• Lazy load of playlist descriptions #61

[1.3.0] - 2022-09-17

Added

• Restore application window state at startup #52
• Document software architecture #51
• New setting to exclude backends from random album selection #44

Changed

• Fix sensitivity of play and add buttons in playlist view #59
• Force update of current tracklist track identifier to synchronize views #56
• Don't automatically select first album track #53

[1.2.0] - 2022-08-30

Added

• Start documentation page #12
• Support download of images with http URI scheme #48
• Support for Mopidy-Jellyfin backend #48

Changed

• Make sure descriptions of static albums are collected only once #49
• Default is now to enable backend for Mopidy-Local #43
• Limit size of request to fetch album images URIs #48

[1.1.2] - 2022-08-26

Changed

• Listen to key events with Mod1 and Shift modifiers #47
• Don't clear albums search filter when entering album details page #46

[1.1.1] - 2022-08-21

Changed

• Remove usage of stock icon for the application icon #12
• Upgrade version of Flatpak runtime version #12

[1.1.0] - 2022-08-21

Added

• Add a stream URI to the tracklist #38
• Play or enqueue a track selection #33
• Option to disable/enable Mopidy backends in preference dialog #23
• Option to disable/enable history and recent additions playlists in preference dialog #20
• CLI argument to hide album search widget #15
• Automatically hide volume button when Mopidy mixer is disabled #16
• Virtual playlists for recently added and recently played tracks #4
• Listen to playlists related events #1
• Support desktop notifications #2

Changed

• Computation of album artist name #39
• Album cover don't show up for albums discovered after user clicked on "refresh album library" #31
• Album details page shouldn't display previously selected album details temporarily #28
• Window height isn't constant #27
• Entering album details page twice shows wrong album details #26
• Playlist and albums browse happen too early #9

Removed

• Remove hardcoded URI from support for Mopidy-Podcast #19

[1.0.0] - 2022-05-22

First version with most notable features:

• Library browser populated with albums from Mopidy-Local, Mopidy-Bandcamp and Mopidy-Podcast
• View of Mopidy-M3U playlists
• Playback state & tracklist view