After all these years, we had this as a field but there was never a
way to change the value. So let's just hard-code it until we actually
have a reason to make it variable at runtime.
It was surprising that Read() was non-blocking, but there was no
blocking version of it. Let's make the non-blocking behavior explicit
and change Read() to be blocking.
In order to find existing callers easily with compiler errors, this
also refactors Read()/Write() to take a std::span parameter.
Since using libfmt (commit: dfc5b49) ICY MetaData was broken. Eg MP3 streams encoded with LAME were affected resulting in missing stream titles on VLC or strange noises on Sonos hardware. This commit fixes the icy-metaint field.
Add an `always_off` option to outputs that causes them to never start
playback even if they're enabled.
This allows placeholder `null` outputs to be defined for the purpose
of having an external client react to the enabled state without the
side effects of real outputs. Like an external mixer, the client can
perform some action when an output is enabled.
Normally `null` outputs can be used for playback so it's possible for
MPD to continue playback silently if a problem occurs with all the real
outputs (or there are none enabled).
This effectively reverts commit 0f02bbc2fe which was a horrible
kludge for JACK support on Windows. Maintaining this kludge doesn't
seem worth the trouble (the JACK version was never updated), and
apparently nobody uses this.
Boost makes building a piece of software much more difficult than
necessary. It's a huge library, and just uncompressing it takes a
considerable amount of time. MPD only used a tiny fraction of it, yet
its header bloat made the MPD build very slow. Locating Boost was
difficult due to its arcane build system and its resistance to use
pkg-config; it's always a special case. MPD could never use features
of newer Boost versions because Linux distributions always shipped old
Boost versions. Boost made everything complicated and slow.
So, finally, after getting rid of GLib (commit ccdb94b06c), switching
to C++ and using Boost (commit 0801b3f495), we've finally get rid of
it 8 years later.
Unfortunately, I had to reimplement parts of it along the way
(e.g. IntrusiveList). Kind of NIH, but on the other hand, compiling
MPD has become much easier for users.
