Hi and Happy New Year! MPD 0.14 has been released one week ago, and there are already 134 new patches in the master repository.
During 0.14 development, we have formed a nice team of developers. Welcome to the new contributors Eric Wollesen, Viliam Mateicka, Thomas Jansen, Emanuele Giaquinta, Laszlo Ashin. Also welcome to Sean McNamara who has been working on new code for 0.15 since December. The 0.14 release was a big step forward for the MPD project. It has taken longer than I wished, but I think it's become a good one. In the future, we should release more often. 0.13 was released in May 2007, 0.14 took more than 1.5 years. I am sure we can do new 0.x releases every 2 or 3 months. The MPD project has gained a lot of momentun recently, and many people care about it. There's always the long-time goal of having a 1.0 release, but I think we have so many ideas for new features, we won't be doing 1.0 anytime soon. So what about 0.15? Extract from the current NEWS file: - one mixer per output device (by Viliam, work in progress) - direct playing from archives (bzip2, iso9660, zip) (also by Viliam, work in progress, no tag support yet) - RVA2 tags - improved logging, including syslog More to come: - gstreamer decoder plugin in development (Sean working on that, hope he'll upload his code to git soon, so I can merge it) - Windows port (by Thomas and me, work in progress) Some ideas, no developer assigned yet - volunteers? - generic database to attach information to songs - e.g. for song ratings, album covers?, lyrics? - maybe SQLite or BerkeleyDB based? http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1398 http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1514 http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1296 - "albumartist" tag http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1399 - return all custom tags http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1716 - UPnP/DLNA server http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1924 - support for portable devices, e.g. "virtually mount" an ipod (or CD audio) in the directory "ipod" - libsoup instead of libcurl (choose at compile time) - move the decoder loop out of the decoder plugins, i.e. decode only a chunk at a time on the decode() method, evaluate decoder commands in decoder_thread.c - merge duplicated ID3 code in some decoder plugins (mp3, mp4, ...?) - find a way to decode mp4 with libfaad, without libmp4ff - CUE support http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1369 - "queue support" - range for MPD commands http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1766 - crossfading enhancements http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1515 http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1617 http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1839 - port to Windows (mingw32, not cygwin) http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1566 http://musicpd.org/mantis/view.php?id=1854 - Icy stream tags There are many many other interesting feature requests in MPD's bug tracker. Patches welcome! If you don't know how to implement something, don't hesitate to ask me. Not all features I listed must be implemented before 0.15. Let's see how development goes in January/February, and freeze the code base then, for a 0.15 release in March. Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
