The smartstop feature is a way to tell mpd to stop playing after
current song.
This patche provides:
- 'state' command returns 'smartstop' state (1 or 0)
- 'smartstop' can activate or not the smartstop state
- when song is terminated, mpd stops playing and smartstop is set to 0
The move command now accepts a range for the first argument, in the same
form as other range commands, e.g. move 15:17 3. The first song in the
range is placed at the destination position. Note that as with other
range commands, the range is inclusive on the left only; this example
would move only songs 15 and 16, not 17.
[mk: fixed signed/unsigned warnings; use G_MAXUINT instead of
UINT_MAX]
Let's get rid of the "shout" plugin, and the awfully complicated
icecast daemon setup! MPD can do better if it's doing the HTTP server
stuff on its own. This new plugin has several advantages:
- easier to set up - only one daemon, no password settings, no mount
settings
- MPD controls the encoder and thus already knows the packet
boundaries - icecast has to parse them
- MPD doesn't bother to encode data while nobody is listening
This implementation is very experimental (no header parsing, ignores
request URI, no icy-metadata, ...). It should be able to suport
several encoders in parallel in the future (with different bit rates,
different codec, ...), to make MPD the perfect streaming server. Once
MPD gets multi-player support, we can even mount several different
radio stations on one server.
Even if libsamplerate support is enabled, compile the fallback
resampler. When the user specifies the option
"samplerate_converter=internal", it is chosen in favor of
libsamplerate. This may help users with a weak FPU who don't want to
compile a custom MPD from source, because the fallback resampler does
not use floating point operations.
Recursive Makefiles are inefficient and error prone (no proper way to
declare dependencies). Since there's no disadvantage in having one
single Makefile, let's do it.
The "sticker" command allows clients to query or manipulate the
sticker database. This patch implements the sub-commands "get" and
"set"; more will follow soon (enumeration), as well as extended
"lsinfo" / "playlistinfo" versions.
"Stickers" are pieces of information attached to existing MPD objects
(e.g. song files, directories, albums). Clients can create arbitrary
name/value pairs. MPD itself does not assume any special meaning in
them.
mpd uses some additional files to work, such as pid_file, state_file,
db_file, etc. when running mpd as non-root user, it is often that those
files end in ~/.mpd
in that case, we end up with 2 entries in a user's home, .mpdconf and
.mpd - which clutters homedirs.
this patch allows ~/.mpd/mpd.conf as an alternative to ~/.mpdconf,
allowing for a cleaner homedir
Over time mpdconf has evolved and has been maintained and contributed to by many different folks at different
times. Try to give it some unity. Attempt to clear up some language and make things crystal clear. Add more
examples. Use tabs when it makes sense. Make better borders. Remove obsolete options. Try to put more defaults
when it makes sense.
MPD 0.13 and older followed all symbolic links. Although this can be
a security problem (as it has always been), 0.14 should offer the same
default behaviour as 0.13.
The configuration options "follow_outside_symlinks" and
"follow_inside_symlinks" let the user control whether MPD should
follow symbolic links in the music directory.
[mk: converted variables to "bool"; moved configuration to
update_global_init()]
Over the years, a lot of commands have been added to MPD which were
documented only in the wiki
(http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Protocol_Reference). Merge all missing
commands from there.
The goal is to have one structured document which is the authoritative
protocol specification. The documentation which currently resides in
the wiki will be merged.
When building with the ancient automake 1.6 version, the following
errors occur:
Makefile.am:5: invalid variable `doc_DATA'
doc/Makefile.am:2: invalid variable `doc_DATA'
This patches renames some internal variables.
"idle" waits until something noteworthy happens on the server,
e.g. song change, playlist modified, database updated. This allows
clients to keep up to date without polling.
Added mpd.conf options for disabling automatic resamling, sample
format and channel conversion. This way, users may choose to override
ALSA's automatic resampling, and use libsamplerate instead.
I've perhaps gone a bit overboard, but here's the current rundown:
Both Ogg and MP3 use the "shout" audio output plugin. The shout audio
output plugin itself has two new plugins, one for the Ogg encoder,
and another for the MP3 (LAME) encoder.
Configuration for an Ogg stream doesn't change. For an MP3 stream,
configuration is the same as Ogg, with two exceptions. First, you must
specify the optional "encoding" parameter, which should be set to "mp3".
See mpd.conf(5) for more details. Second, the "quality" parameter is
reversed for LAME, such that 1 is high quality for LAME, whereas 10 is
high quality for Ogg.
I've decomposed the code so that all libshout related operations
are done in audioOutput_shout.c, all Ogg specific functions are in
audioOutput_shout_ogg.c, and of course then all LAME specific functions
are handled in audioOutput_shout_mp3.c.
To develop encoder plugins for the shout audio output plugin, I basically
just mimicked the plugin system used for audio outputs. This might be
overkill, but hopefully if anyone ever wants to support some other sort
of stream, like maybe AAC, FLAC, or WMA (hey it could happen), they will
hopefully be all set.
The Ogg encoder is slightly less optimal under this configuration.
It used to send shout data directly out of its ogg_page structures. Now,
in the interest of encapsulation, it copies the data from its ogg_page
structures into a buffer provided by the shout audio output plugin (see
audioOutput_shout_ogg.c, line 77.) I suspect the performance impact
is negligible.
As for metadata, I'm pretty sure they'll both work. I wrote up a test
scaffold that would create a fake tag, and tell the plugin to send it
out to the stream every few seconds. It seemed to work fine. Of course,
if something does break, I'll be glad to fix it.
Lastly, I've renamed lots of things into snake_case, in keeping with
normalperson's wishes in that regard.
[mk: moved the MP3 patch after this one. Splitted this patch into
several parts; the others were already applied before this one. Fixed
a bunch GCC warnings and wrong whitespace modifications. Made it
compile with mpd-mk by adapting to its prototypes]
Daniel Kahn Gillmor