CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

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

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.2r2 (2024-07-02)

• Debian package dependency fix for libavfilter

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.2r1 (2024-07-01)

• Disable album cover art by default - it's flaky at best
• Add Python virtual environment and pyenv install
• Move fzf and figlet out of dependencies into mppinit
• Fix JetBrains URL
• Disable acousticbrainz Beets plugin
• Add --no-confirm to bandcamp-download for private release download
• Install our fixed cpe script
• Porting to Ubuntu 22.04 with Homebrew python
• Install JetBrains Mono font and make it the default in Kitty config
• Add default ncmpcpp configuration
• Add man page for mpprc

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.1r3 (2023-01-20)

• Add settings for cover art padding and font size in mpprc
• Merge existing mpprc in initial mppinit
• Some settings in mpprc can either be unset or 0
• Support display of album cover art when using ncmpcpp

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.1r2 (2023-01-17)

• Use external mppcava package
• MusicPlayerPlus package is now architecture independent
• Improved cover art display
• Improved platform detection

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.1r1 (2023-01-09)

• Arch Linux modular installation fixes
• Support for Arch-like platforms (e.g. Manjaro)

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.0r2 (2023-01-03)

• Modular installation and configuration of supporting components
• Add support for adding markdown releases to a Discogs collection folder
• Update mppcava with changes from cava version 0.8.3
• Install ueberzug from forked repo as it was deleted from PyPi
• Integrate Discogs workflow into mppinit and mpplus
• Support generation of an Obsidian vault from a local music library
• Add support for auto-generation of Obsidian vault from Discogs collection
• Modify Beets paths configuration to support Discogs release matching
• Add DISCOGS_USER, DISCOGS_TOKEN, DISCOGS_DIR to mpprc configuration
• Add Jekyll theme for Github Pages
• Update tmux configuration
• Check if MPD_CLIENT is executable in PATH
• Add MPD_CLIENT to mpprc configuration
• Use MPD_CLIENT in mpplus, default is mpcplus
• Install kitty terminfo entry in mppinit
• Add PipeWire service management
• Add PipeWire user configuration files
• Add url handling section to Kitty config, default to PulseAudio output in mpd.conf
• Improved tab bar titles, add section on URLs
• Use transparency only when needed, modify -A argument to take on|off like -T
• Remove blissify and bliss-analyze from build and packaging - now a separate package
• Disable album cover art if not using mpcplus or ncmpcpp
• Add client option to mpcplus-tmux and mpcplus-ueberzug - any MPD client can be used
• Always use tmux in cool-retro-term, do not quote command in cool-retro-term
• Improve Kitty tab bar, use 'Home' for tab title when in user home directory
• Move svm_models to mpplus-essentia package
• Add clock to Kitty tab bar
• Improve Kitty tab bar and theme
• Add kitty/tab.conf, modify Kitty startup session
• Use an external Essentia package install in mppinit
• Add curl to dependencies, check for required utilities in mppinit
• Add pkg/dist/get_latest package download script
• Improve mppinit package download/install
• Convenience scripts to retrieve release artifacts
• Add clone, build, and config for mmtc MPD client
• Add commands to add to MPD queue and select for queue
• Add scripts to clone and build mpq, pms, and songmem
• Add clone, build, and config for nncmpp

MusicPlayerPlus-2.0.1r3 (2022-09-20)

• Add CentOS Linux build and packaging support
• Improved Arch Linux support
• Improved album cover art download and display
• Preserve existing user configurations where appropriate
• Add view service logs menu to mpplus
• Add mpd-monitor and mpd-configure commands and man pages
• Integrate RoonCommandLine, MirrorCommand, and Asciiville menus
• Add -l music_dir option to mppinit
  • To initialize a custom music library location in one step:
  • mppinit -l /path/to/library
• Bug fixes

MusicPlayerPlus-2.0.1r2 (2022-08-20)

• Add Arch Linux build and packaging support
• Add support for Mopidy and Mopidy administration
• Add support for Navidrome and Navidrome administration
• Add new config file ~/.config/mpprc for MusicPlayerPlus preferences
• Fixes for EWMH non-compliant window managers (e.g. DWM)
• Change default terminal emulator from gnome-terminal to kitty
• Add support for Kitty, custom Kitty config/themes/sessions
• Add Beets web plugin service
• Add mpplus menu to manage downloads
• Add new command 'listyt' to list YouTube video titles and urls
• Add Sphinx docs for Read the Docs MusicPlayerPlus documentation
• Add mppdl command and yt-dlp module for downloading audio from various sites
• Add mppcover command to display album cover art of currently playing song
• Additional python module dependencies installed during mppinit
• Messages in mppinit tailored to which acoustic analysis is performed
• Remove dependencies on gnome-terminal and tilix
• Add dependency on wmctrl and xrandr, remove dependency on dconf

MusicPlayerPlus-2.0.1r1 (2022-08-08)

• Added Beets media library management integration
• Automated Beets xtractor plugin installation and configuration
  • Beets xtractor plugin performs acoustic analysis and metadata updates
  • Gaia and Essentia for audio analysis and audio-based information retrieval
  • Pre-compiled streaming_extractor_music extractor binary with Gaia
• Improved lastgenre Beets configuration
• Use %title template function to Title Case artist names in Beets
• Scripts to convert WAV format media to MP3 format media
• Custom Beets play plugin configuration to use mpc
• Auto generation of smart MPD playlists
• Add support for automated WAV to MP3 conversion with mpplus -F
• Add support for automated lyrics download with mpplus -L
• Add support for YAMS Last.fm scrobbler activation with mpplus -Y
• Add create_playlist command to create new playlists from Beets queries
• Add support for Calliope playlist toolkit
• Enhanced Beets import logging
• Man pages for beets and beetsconfig
• Integrate basic Beets initialization and management in mpplus
• Add tmux plugin manager settings to default configuration
• Compile and install Gaia and Essentia from customized source
• Automated install and configuration of many Beets plugins
  • acousticbrainz, albumtypes, bandcamp, describe, duplicates
  • edit, extrafiles, fromfilename, hook, importadded, info
  • lyrics, lastgenre, missing, mbsync, mpdstats, play, playlist
  • smartplaylist, mpdupdate, unimported, xtractor
• Add help menu to mpplus
• Add man pages for scdl and bandcamp-dl
• Add script to download Soundcloud favorites
• Add script to download Bandcamp collections
• Add options to use AcousticBrainz rather than Essentia for audio information
• Add custom targets to xtractor config
• Add Bandcamp and Soundcloud downloads to mppinit
• Add import and metadata retrieval to mppinit
• Add blissify MPD library analysis and smart playlist generator
• Add bliss-analyze acoustic analysis tool

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.3r1 (2022-07-09)

• Add support for Raspberry Pi
• Include mppcava fork of Cava spectrum visualizer in MusicPlayerPlus package
• Check if DISPLAY can be used and if not execute in console mode using tmux
• Configure MPD with user systemd service using configuration in ~/.config/mpd/
• Add Alt-f mpcplus key binding to search music library using fzf
• Additional custom tmux key bindings
• Configure MPD user service in mpcinit, move MPD fifo to user MPD config dir
• Add option to specify alternate spectrum visualizer
• Create terminal profiles in mpcinit
• Add support for tmuxp tmux session manager
• Add tmuxp configuration files in ~/.config/tmuxp/
• Convert mppsplash-tmux and mpcplus-tmux to use tmuxp
• Use gnome-terminal as default rather than xfce4-terminal
• Add fzmp command and fzf dependency
• Add command line option to invoke fzmp
• Add support for fzmp to interactive menu in mpplus
• Add man page for fzmp
• Add mpcplus cheat sheet
• Rename asciijulia to mppjulia to avoid conflict with Asciiville package
• Rename asciiplasma to mppplasma to avoid conflict with Asciiville package
• Rename asciimpplus to mpprocks to avoid conflict with Asciiville package
• Added asciinema dependency

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.2r1 (2022-04-14)

• Add alsa_conf command to configure ALSA sound system
• Add management of MPD services through mpplus command

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.1r3 (2022-04-12)

• Disable tmux recording when tmux is disabled
• Improve interactive menu entries
• If -s song argument is provided look for song in MPD music library as well
• Added interactive mode with -i command line option
• Added support for mpplus front-end to mppsplash and mppsplash-tmux
• Add ability to download cover art to mpplus command
• Add option to download_cover_art to specify alternate music directory
• Add -d option to mpplus to download album cover art

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.1r2 (2022-04-04)

• Use MPlayer to play media during ASCIImatics animations
• Use a signal handler in ASCIImatics animations to fade audio and cleanup
• Use a FIFO in ASCIImatics animations to communicate with MPlayer
• Added tmux session integration to mpplus command
• Re-enable visualizer in mpcplus MPD client build
• Cleanup tmux sessions, add ability to kill tmux sessions in mpplus

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.1r1 (2022-03-31)

• Add capability to play audio while displaying ASCIImatics scenes
• Add several ASCIImatics scenes including one during initialization
• Rename mpcava to mpplus
• Integration with asciinema for recording ascii terminal sessions
• Several new commands including:
  • alsa_audio_test
  • asciijulia
  • asciimpplus
  • asciiplasma
  • download_cover_art
  • mpcinit
  • mpcplus-tmux
  • mppsplash
  • mppsplash-tmux
• Added display of client, visualizer, and album cover art in tmux
• Additional terminal support

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.0r1 (2022-03-26)

• Added Debian and RPM packaging (pkg/debian/ and pkg/rpm/)
• Added configure and compile of mpcplus to packaging scripts
• Moved mpcplus client source into subdirectory of repository

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.0r1 (2022-03-25)

• Changed name to MusicPlayerPlus

mpcplus-0.10 (2022-03-25)

• Merged in packaging, utilities, doc, and config from MusicPlayerPlus

mpcplus-0.10 (2022-03-24)

• See mpcplus/CHANGELOG.md for history of changes to mpcplus MPD client