music player daemon (fork)
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It's too ugly and broken (both technically and usability-wise) to be worth supporting in any stable release. In one sentence: The queue is a very crippled version of the playlist that takes precedence over the normal playlist. How is it crippled? * The "queueid" command only allows the queuing of songs ALREADY IN THE PLAYLIST! This promotes having the entire mpd database of songs in the playlist, which is a stupid practice to begin with. * It doesn't allow for meaningful rearranging and movement of songs within the queue. To move a song, you'd need to dequeue and requeue it (and other songs on the list). Why? The playlist already allows _all_ these features and shows everything a client needs to know about the ordering of songs in a _single_ command! * Random was a stupid idea to begin with and unfortunately we're stuck supporting it since we've always had it. Users should learn to use "shuffle" instead and not look at their playlists. Implementing queue because we have the problem of random is just a bandage fix and digging ourselves a new hole. This protocol addition was never in a stable release of mpd, so reverting it will only break things for people following trunk; which I'm not too worried about. I am however worried about long-term support of this misfeature, so I'm removing it. Additionally, there are other points: * It's trivially DoS-able: (while true; do echo queueid $song_id; done) | nc $MPD_HOST $MPD_PORT The above commands would cause the queue to become infinitely expanding, taking up all available memory in the system. The mpd playlist was implemented as an array with a fixed (but configurable) size limit for this reason. * It's not backwards-compatible. All clients would require upgrades (and additional complexity) to even know what the next song in the playlist is. mpd is a shared architecture, and we should not violate the principle of least astonishment here. This removes the following commands: queueid, dequeue, queueinfo Additionally, the status field of "playlistqueue: " is removed from the status command. While this DoS is trivial to fix, the design is simply too broken to ever support in a real release. The overloading of the "addid" command and the allowing of negative numbers to be used as offsets is far more flexible. This improved "addid" is completely backwards-compatible with all clients, and does not require clients to have UI changes or run additional commands to display the queue. git-svn-id: https://svn.musicpd.org/mpd/trunk@7155 09075e82-0dd4-0310-85a5-a0d7c8717e4f |
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Music Player Daemon (MPD)
http://www.musicpd.org
A daemon for playing music of various formats. Music is played through the
server's audio device. The daemon stores info about all available music,
and this info can be easily searched and retrieved. Player control, info
retrieval, and playlist management can all be managed remotely.
To install MPD, see INSTALL.
MPD includes mp4ff in the source, due to licensing issues of the newer
version and includes bugfixes with the properly licensed version. mp4ff is
released under the GPL and copyrighted by M. Bakker, Ahead Software AG
(http://www.nero.com) and is distributed as a part of the FAAD2 - Freeware
Advance Audio (AAC) Decoder.
MPD is released under the GNU Public License.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
For the full license, see COPYING.