pkgsrc changes:
* support wide-curses, enabled by default so I can read my song titles.
* support for alsa, enabled by default on linux
* support for more file formats
* pkglint fixes
2.5.2
New configuration file options:
ALSAStutterDefeat: avoid the ALSA bug which causes stuttering
Significant bug fixes:
Fixed error during configure on busybox systems
Fixed calculation of average bitrate in FLAC decoder
Fixed unintentional disabling of MMAP support
Fixed build failure on split ncurses/tinfo systems
Fixed unreaped children when running in foreground mode
Fixed freeze on Nokia devices if audios play to completion
Circumvented ALSA stutter bug
Added missing 'Precache' option to example config file
Miscellaneous:
Improved the accuracy of the average bitrate for FLAC
Mitigated out-of-file seeking for several formats
Warn of TagLib version requirement rising to 1.5
Warn of Musepack library changing to libmpc (from libmpcdec)
2.5.1
Significant bug fixes:
Corrected the setting of linked libraries for Berkeley DB
Fixed ALSA volume setting problem (Tomasz Golinski)
Fixed clearing of stream status message on error
Resolved FFmpeg/LibAV's downmixing API issues (Andreas Cadhalpun)
Removed duplicate logging of fatal error messages
Miscellaneous:
Adapted to FFmpeg 3.0 API
Warn of FFmpeg/LibAV version requirement rising to 1.0/10.0
Warn of pending POSIX.1-2001 compliance requirement
Fixed several warnings and errors on OpenBSD (Brent Cook)
Fixed various (and potential) segfaults (Daniel T. Borelli, Hendrik Iben, Rastislav Barlik)
Fixed various resource leakages
Silenced various compiler warnings
Added instructions on building with autoreconf
Patch provided by Onno van der Linden via pkg/50803.
Changes:
2.5.0 - "Consolidation"
* Autotools and packaging changes:
- Upgraded autoconf version requirement to 2.60
- Added '--with-alsa' to suppress ALSA sound driver inclusion
- Added '--without-oss' to suppress OSS sound driver inclusion
- Added '--disable-cache' to remove tags cache support
- Added specific GDB support to '--enable-debug'
- Refactor decoder plug-ins' autoconf scripts into source directories
- Ensure that all decoders get into the source distribution tarball
- Removed SID decoder's dependance on .la-file presence
- Removed distribution-specific .spec file
- Minor reformatting of the configure summary
- Added warnings for various deprecations and potential problems
- Added warnings for unmet future package requirements
- Updated GNU boilerplate text
* Improved support for embedded systems:
- Refined FFmpeg decoder configuration for use with cross-compilation
- Provided use of Tremor with the Vorbis decoder
- Improve portability to non-GNU library platforms
- Added --with-libiconv-prefix configure option
* Audio driver changes:
- Allow use of the OSSv4 per-application mixer API
- Provided SNDIO support for OpenBSD systems (Alexander Polakov)
* New and changed audio decoders:
- New TiMidity decoder for MIDI (Hendrik Iben)
- Migrate AAC decoder to later FAAD2 API (Max Klinger)
- Added AAC+ (HE-AAC) support to AAC decoder
- New SidPlay2 decoder for SID (Hendrik Iben)
- New Modplug decoder (Hendrik Iben)
- New WavPack decoder (Alexandrov Sergey)
- Renamed SndFile plugin for consistancy
- Removed M4A format support from AAC decoder plugin
- Removed WAV format support from ModPlug decoder plugin
- Detect huge files in certain formats which SndFile cannot play
- Improved (drastically in some cases) the accuracy of AAC durations
* Overhauled FFmpeg/LibAV decoder:
- Resolved FFmpeg API deprecations
- Provided LibAV compatibility
- Provided proper stereo downmixing
- Provided locking support for non-thread-safe library functions
- Provided better FFmpeg or LibAV discrimination
- Provided better audio duration reliability determination
- Increased number of decodable formats (including Xiph Opus)
- Added decoding of audio from video formats
- Added logging of FFmpeg/LibAV messages
- Added seeking in most (but not all) formats
- Added handling for "planar" codecs
- Excluded experimental codecs from decoding
- Fixed misreporting of tags, duration and bitrates
- Fixed memory and file descriptor leakages
- Fixed severe distortion on 8-bit samples
- Fixed loop playing FLAC files
- Fixed many FFmpeg/LibAV API breakages
- Fixed many miscellaneous bugs
- Detect over-length (and therefore broken) WAV files
- Fixed log formatting when FFmpeg messages contain newline characters
* Audio reproduction changes:
- Improved support for 8-bit sample size
- Added software mixer (Hendrik Iben)
- Added parametric equalizer (Hendrik Iben)
- Fixed many bugs which produced distorted sound
- Fixed bugs in 24-bit sample handling (Tomasz Golinski)
* General configuration file changes:
- Reconciled and regularised example config and keymap files
- Introduced lists and function-like syntax
- Introduced variable substitution
- Introduced symbol and boolean option types
- Improved security of the configuration file
- Automatic clearing of an overridden default key binding
- Made processing of keymap file consistant with that of config file
* Changed configuration file options:
- Layout# options moved to a list and function-like syntax
- SoundDriver option moved to a list syntax
- Renamed OSSMixerChannel to OSSMixerChannel1
- Renamed ALSAMixer to ALSAMixer1
- QueueNextSongReturn moved to yes/no values
- TagsCacheSize set to zero now disables tag caching
* New configuration file options:
- OnSongChange: run an external command (Jack Miller)
- RepeatSongChange: govern the running of the OnSongChange command
- OnStop: run an external command on stopping
- EnforceTagsEncoding: substitutes ID3v1TagsEncoding for ISO-8859-1
encoding in ID3v2 tags (Aleks Sherikov)
- FileNamesIconv: converts from local to UTF8 encoding for file names
(Aleks Sherikov)
- NonUTFXterm: converts UTF8 to local encoding for X-Term titles
(Aleks Sherikov)
- AutoLoadLyrics: says whether MOC should look for lyrics files
- PreferredDecoders: allow finer control over decoder selection
- XTerms: externalises terminals regarded as X-Terms
- UseMIMEMagic: says whether to identify audio files by using MIME
- JackStartServer: autostart JACK the server (Max Klinger)
- ShowTimePercent: set the percent played state (Daniel T. Borelli)
- Various options for SidPlay2, Modplug and TiMidity support
* New command line options:
- '-j' to jump to some position in the current track (Nuno Cardoso)
- '-O' to override configuration file settings
- '-Q' to display user formatted information (Juho Hämäläinen)
- '-q' to queue files from command line (Martin Milata)
- '-t' and '--on/off' to toggle or set playback options (Jack Miller)
- '-v' to set the volume (Jack Miller)
* Screen handling changes:
- Changed minimum screen height to 7 lines (Tero Marttila)
- Added support for GNU screen title (Jonathan Derque)
- Restored screen to console mode after reporting fatal errors
- Populated playlist panel when loading default playlist file
- Removed default playlist autofocus at start
- Fixed overlength highlight bar
- Fixed screen upset when tags contain control characters
- Fixed some screen upsets when tags contain UTF-8 characters (firejox)
- Fixed screen upset caused by screen(1) mis-detection
* New and updated client interaction features:
- 'a' command: also add a directory to the playlist (Filippo Giunchedi)
- 'L' command: display music lyrics (Géraud Le Falher)
- 'Y' command: prune unreadable files from the playlist (tyranix)
- Queued messages for display in the message area
- Added play queue (Martin Milata)
- Mark a fragment of a file which can be passed to external commands
- Clear status message after a stream open failure
- Minor help menu clarifications
* Improve text entry history and editting:
- Recognise ^u (by default) as delete to start of line
- Recognise ^k (by default) as delete to end of line
- Save and restore entered text prior to history scrolling
- Save history entry modifications
- Do not save adjacent duplicate entries
- Do not save or modify with blank entries
- Position cursor at end of restored or history line
* Theme changes:
- Enabled highlighted playlist numbers and file times (Marc Tschiesche)
- Fixed miscoloured frame when switching themes (Alexander Polakov)
- Fixed default colour settings
- Fixed cursor placement in themes menu (Alex Merenstein)
- Fixed ordering of theme files in themes menu
- Fixed new attributes application on theme switching (Alex Merenstein)
* General code cleaning:
- Refactoring, optimisations and cosmetic improvements
- Silenced many build warnings and errors
- Replaced various deprecated, legacy and platform-specific functions
- Improved thread safety
* Significant bug fixes:
- Fixed stale locks freeze in tags cache database following a crash
- Fixed CURL timeout for internet streaming errors (Daniel Stenberg)
- Fixed audio distortion on MP3 file having overly long tag values
- Fixed false positive stream detection in the MP3 decoder
- Fixed Ogg/Vorbis stream detection in the Vorbis decoder
- Fixed 'LRINTF error' raised when reconfiguring MOC
- Fixed backspace key mishandling
- Fixed client interface meta-key handling
- Fixed pthread stack overflow segfault on OpenBSD
- Fixed segfault when text entry history becomes full
- Fixed segfault processing playlists with relative paths
- Fixed memory corruptions when toggling tag reading
- Fixed assertion when a second client is started
- Fixed slow memory leak in client on long-playing streams
- Fixed severe distortion on 11025Hz 16-bit mono audios
- Fixed freeze at end of playing audio file
- Fixed server crash when attempting to play a deleted file
- Fixed MIME type detection on HTTP redirection
- Fixed crash when mixer value is above 100%
- Fixed handling of huge (greater than 2 GiB) files
- Fixed sub-second audio truncation on ALSA
- Fixed segfault when MIME-detected MP3 file has no "extension"
- Fixed segfault when using '--format' without an audio playing
- Workaround for streams that have the actual title as tags/comments
- Indentified cause of "undefined symbol" build errors
- Plugged all known memory and file descriptor leaks
- Fixed nonsense duration values returned on some corrupt FLAC files
- Fixed 'time >= 0' assertion at change of audio file
- Fixed client event notification failure in some circumstances
- Fixed client abort on duplicated playlist filenames
- Fixed delayed client exit when server invokes long-running scripts
(Alex Merenstein)
- Fixed occasional server freeze on logging when running scripts
- Fixed non-conforming 'User-Agent' HTTP request header
* Miscellaneous:
- Updated and reformatted mocp manpage and equalizer README file
- Made many warning and error reports more informative and consistant
- Better logging of more problem determination information
- More informative version information display
- Introduced MD5-based decoder verification tools
- Improved compatibility with 64-bit systems
- Improved compatibility with big-endian systems
- Moved tags cache to a Berkeley DB
- Integration of down-stream distribution patches
- Fixed frames to duration calculations in ALSA
- Fixed some mutex management bugs
- Fixed many bugs which crashed MOC
Changes:
* Layout of the main window can be changed using Layout[123] options.
Switching between layouts is done using the 'l' key and now TAB is
used to switch between the playlist and the directory menu. For
example, you can configure the layout to see both the playlist and a
directory content.
* Support for WMA, RealAudio, MP4 and AAC file using FFmpeg.
* UTF-8 support.
* Selecting themes at runtime - T command (this does not change the
config file).
* Executing external commands, like 'cp %f /mnt/usb_drive' where %f is
substituted with the path to the currently selected file.
* Tags are cached at the server side and read in a separate thread.
The interface is not locked until the tags are read. Size of the
cache can be adjusted using TagsCacheSize. The cache is saved at exit
and loaded at startup.
* Moving items up and down: u and j commands.
* Workaround for encoding of ID3v1 tags. New options: UseRCC - to use
librcc for ID3v1 reencoding (Initial patch by Alexey Gladkov),
ID3v1TagsEncoding - assumed encoding for ID3v1 tags.
* Added UseCursorSelection option (default: no) to display cursor on
the selected file. This is useful with braille displays.
* Added SetXtermTitle option (disable/enable setting xterm title).
* Added m4a and aac to the list of extensions supported by ffmpeg.
* Pressing n when nothing is played starts playing from the first item
on the playlist.
* Added FollowPlayedFile option: menu follows the currently played file
so that it is scrolled if the file is outside the visible part
(default to yes).
* Numbering items in the playlist. Can be turned off using
PlaylistNumbering.
* New themes: moca_theme (Nicola Vitale), red_theme (yyz), and
darkdot_theme (David Lazar).
* Added a command for adding a URL to the playlist using entry (CTRL-u).
* A and --append can add files from playlists.
* Interface show the playlist after startup if something from the
playlist is played (CanStartInPlaylist option).
* Commands: --append, --clear, --play work now as expected even if there
is no client running.
* Use full paths instead of just file names for displaying on the
playlist.
* Internet streams can be paused.
* Ogg plugin name was changed to vorbis.
Schuller.
MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX
designed to be powerful and easy to use. Noteworthy features
include:
* By default, files are decoded and played in a background
process. This allows the user to quit the interface (e.g.,
if one needs to close the xterm) without affecting
playback. It also allows attaching multiple interfaces
(e.g. in multiple xterms) to the same player.
* Playback should be smooth even under high cpu or I/O load,
due to the use of output buffering in a separate thread.
* There are no sound gaps in between files, because the next
file to be played is precached while playing the current
file.
Note: To avoid conflicts with Qt's 'moc', the moc binary is
called 'mocp'.
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