PMP 0.2.0

Added

• Delayed start.
• Ability to reload server settings.
• Ability to name a server instance.
• Setting for database port number.
• "Scan for servers" button in the server selection screen.
• Server can now find a file after it has been moved or renamed. Only occurs when the server is looking for a specific file.
• Client is now notified when the server discovers that a track has disappeared or reappeared.
• Client is now notified when the server discovers that the length of a track has changed.
• Full indexation now detects when a file has been moved or deleted.
• Music collection view: track filter and track highlighting.
• Track info dialog. Available as an option in context menus of the queue, the history, and the music collection.
• "Track info" button for the current track.
• Ability to display time remaining for the track that is playing.
• Ability to insert a breakpoint at any location in the queue.
• Ability to insert a barrier into the queue. Barriers are like breakpoints, but are not consumed by the player.
• Music collection view now displays a marker at the current track.
• Dynamic mode preferences are now saved and restored for each user.
• Option to prevent the display from being turned off after a period of user inactivity. Windows-only for now.
• Command-line remote: support for user authentication, both interactive and non-interactive.
• Command-line remote: new commands "insert", "qdel", "break", "delayedstart", "reloadserversettings", and "trackstats".
• Command-line remote: new options for printing help or version numbers.
• Server: write status of initial full indexation to the console.

Changed

• Volume control now uses a logarithmic scale.
• Dynamic mode has been rewritten.
• Dynamic mode settings have been moved to a separate dialog.
• "High-scored tracks wave" has been redesigned; track selection has improved, progress is shown, and it can now be stopped before it has completed.
• High-scored tracks wave is now called high-scored tracks mode.
• High-scored tracks mode will now give up if it cannot find enough tracks that fit the criteria.
• Faster transitions between consecutive tracks.
• Breakpoints look better.
• Track progress bar uses different colors.
• Track lengths: use millisecond precision.
• Track lengths: only display number of hours if at least one hour long.
• Track lengths: show at least one decimal: "03:44.7".
• Queue drop indicator is now a line between tracks.
• Column "prev. heard" in the queue now uses relative times, and displays the actual time in a tooltip when hovering.
• Improved positioning of the main window at startup.
• Dates/times displayed in the client now take the clock difference between client and server into account.
• Queue now has a size limit; the limit is currently set to 2 million items.
• Command-line remote: output of "queue" command has changed a little bit.
• Command-line remote: usage text is now more extensive.
• Command-line remote: port number is now optional.
• Naming of log files was changed a bit to allow for better sorting.
• Log files now start with a line that contains the PMP version number.
• Timestamps in log files now have millisecond precision.
• Exit code is now written to the log.
• Build instructions for Windows have been greatly simplified and now make use of vcpkg.
• The script for building a Win32 release archive has been replaced with a new one that does a 64-bit build.
• PMP now requires a C++17 compiler.
• PMP now requires CMake 2.8 or later.
• PMP now requires Qt 5.14 or later.
• PMP now requires TagLib 1.12 or later.

Fixed

• Tracks were sometimes incorrectly marked as unavailable in the client.
• Server crashed when trying to play a track marked as unavailable while being in 'stopped' mode.
• Music collection change notifications were not transmitted correctly.
• When starting the client its main window sometimes appeared outside the visible screen area.
• All broken commands in the command-line remote have been fixed.
• Off-by-one error in bounds check when moving an item in the queue could lead to a crash of the server.
• When starting a new track, artist and title were displayed as "unknown" for a fraction of a second.
• For files that have two different hashes, both hashes are now used for calculating track statistics.