The null plugin synchronizes the playback so it will happen in real
time. This patch adds a configuration option which disables this: the
playback will then be as fast as possible. This can be useful to
profile MPD.
When libvorbis knows that a song is seekable, it seeks around like
crazy in the file before starting to decode it. This is very
expensive on remote HTTP resources, and delays MPD for 10 or 20
seconds.
This patch disables seeking on remote songs, because the advantages of
quickly playing a song seem to weigh more than the theoretical ability
of seeking for most MPD users. If users feel this feature is needed,
we will make a configuration option for that.
When a song file is deleted during database update, all pointers to it
must be removed from the playlist. The "for" loop in
deleteASongFromPlaylist() did not deal with multiple copies of the
deleted song properly, and left instances of the (to-be-invalidated)
pointer in. Fix this by reversing the loop.
If http_proxy_{host, port, user, password} are provided in mpd.conf
they are not passed on to libcurl. As a result mpd cannot stream from
behind an http proxy.
The attached patch `http_proxy.patch` makes the relevant calls to
curl_easy_setopt(...) for all proxy configuration parameters, but is
only tested for host and port.
When the decoder of the new song is not fast enough, the player thread
has to wait for it for a moment. However the variable "nextChunk" was
reset to -1 during that, making the next loop iteration assume that
cross-fading has not begun yet. This patch overwrites it with "0"
while waiting.
This patch fixes a minor memory leak: when decoder_tag() attempted to
send a merged tag object (created by tag_add_stream_tags()), and was
interrupted by a decoder command, it did not free the temporary merged
tag object.
Max Kellermann