History

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.2r3 (2024-07-13)

  • Add support for installing, configuring, and running spotify_player

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.2r2 (2024-07-02)

  • Debian package dependency fix for libavfilter

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.2r1 (2024-07-01)

  • Disable album cover art by default - it’s flaky at best

  • Add Python virtual environment and pyenv install

  • Move fzf and figlet out of dependencies into mppinit

  • Fix JetBrains URL

  • Disable acousticbrainz Beets plugin

  • Add --no-confirm to bandcamp-download for private release download

  • Install our fixed cpe script

  • Porting to Ubuntu 22.04 with Homebrew python

  • Install JetBrains Mono font and make it the default in Kitty config

  • Add default ncmpcpp configuration

  • Add man page for mpprc

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.1r3 (2023-01-20)

  • Add settings for cover art padding and font size in mpprc

  • Merge existing mpprc in initial mppinit

  • Some settings in mpprc can either be unset or 0

  • Support display of album cover art when using ncmpcpp

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.1r2 (2023-01-17)

  • Use external mppcava package

  • MusicPlayerPlus package is now architecture independent

  • Improved cover art display

  • Improved platform detection

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.1r1 (2023-01-09)

  • Arch Linux modular installation fixes

  • Support for Arch-like platforms (e.g. Manjaro)

MusicPlayerPlus-3.0.0r2 (2023-01-03)

  • Modular installation and configuration of supporting components

  • Add support for adding markdown releases to a Discogs collection folder

  • Update mppcava with changes from cava version 0.8.3

  • Install ueberzug from forked repo as it was deleted from PyPi

  • Integrate Discogs workflow into mppinit and mpplus

  • Support generation of an Obsidian vault from a local music library

  • Add support for auto-generation of Obsidian vault from Discogs collection

  • Modify Beets paths configuration to support Discogs release matching

  • Add DISCOGS_USER, DISCOGS_TOKEN, DISCOGS_DIR to mpprc configuration

  • Add Jekyll theme for Github Pages

  • Update tmux configuration

  • Check if MPD_CLIENT is executable in PATH

  • Add MPD_CLIENT to mpprc configuration

  • Use MPD_CLIENT in mpplus, default is mpcplus

  • Install kitty terminfo entry in mppinit

  • Add PipeWire service management

  • Add PipeWire user configuration files

  • Add url handling section to Kitty config, default to PulseAudio output in mpd.conf

  • Improved tab bar titles, add section on URLs

  • Use transparency only when needed, modify -A argument to take on|off like -T

  • Remove blissify and bliss-analyze from build and packaging - now a separate package

  • Disable album cover art if not using mpcplus or ncmpcpp

  • Add client option to mpcplus-tmux and mpcplus-ueberzug - any MPD client can be used

  • Always use tmux in cool-retro-term, do not quote command in cool-retro-term

  • Improve Kitty tab bar, use ‘Home’ for tab title when in user home directory

  • Move svm_models to mpplus-essentia package

  • Add clock to Kitty tab bar

  • Improve Kitty tab bar and theme

  • Add kitty/tab.conf, modify Kitty startup session

  • Use an external Essentia package install in mppinit

  • Add curl to dependencies, check for required utilities in mppinit

  • Add pkg/dist/get_latest package download script

  • Improve mppinit package download/install

  • Convenience scripts to retrieve release artifacts

  • Add clone, build, and config for mmtc MPD client

  • Add commands to add to MPD queue and select for queue

  • Add scripts to clone and build mpq, pms, and songmem

  • Add clone, build, and config for nncmpp

MusicPlayerPlus-2.0.1r3 (2022-09-20)

  • Add CentOS Linux build and packaging support

  • Improved Arch Linux support

  • Improved album cover art download and display

  • Preserve existing user configurations where appropriate

  • Add view service logs menu to mpplus

  • Add mpd-monitor and mpd-configure commands and man pages

  • Integrate RoonCommandLine, MirrorCommand, and Asciiville menus

  • Add -l music_dir option to mppinit

    • To initialize a custom music library location in one step:

    • mppinit -l /path/to/library

  • Bug fixes

MusicPlayerPlus-2.0.1r2 (2022-08-20)

  • Add Arch Linux build and packaging support

  • Add support for Mopidy and Mopidy administration

  • Add support for Navidrome and Navidrome administration

  • Add new config file ~/.config/mpprc for MusicPlayerPlus preferences

  • Fixes for EWMH non-compliant window managers (e.g. DWM)

  • Change default terminal emulator from gnome-terminal to kitty

  • Add support for Kitty, custom Kitty config/themes/sessions

  • Add Beets web plugin service

  • Add mpplus menu to manage downloads

  • Add new command ‘listyt’ to list YouTube video titles and urls

  • Add Sphinx docs for Read the Docs MusicPlayerPlus documentation

  • Add mppdl command and yt-dlp module for downloading audio from various sites

  • Add mppcover command to display album cover art of currently playing song

  • Additional python module dependencies installed during mppinit

  • Messages in mppinit tailored to which acoustic analysis is performed

  • Remove dependencies on gnome-terminal and tilix

  • Add dependency on wmctrl and xrandr, remove dependency on dconf

MusicPlayerPlus-2.0.1r1 (2022-08-08)

  • Added Beets media library management integration

  • Automated Beets xtractor plugin installation and configuration

    • Beets xtractor plugin performs acoustic analysis and metadata updates

    • Gaia and Essentia for audio analysis and audio-based information retrieval

    • Pre-compiled streaming_extractor_music extractor binary with Gaia

  • Improved lastgenre Beets configuration

  • Use %title template function to Title Case artist names in Beets

  • Scripts to convert WAV format media to MP3 format media

  • Custom Beets play plugin configuration to use mpc

  • Auto generation of smart MPD playlists

  • Add support for automated WAV to MP3 conversion with mpplus -F

  • Add support for automated lyrics download with mpplus -L

  • Add support for YAMS Last.fm scrobbler activation with mpplus -Y

  • Add create_playlist command to create new playlists from Beets queries

  • Add support for Calliope playlist toolkit

  • Enhanced Beets import logging

  • Man pages for beets and beetsconfig

  • Integrate basic Beets initialization and management in mpplus

  • Add tmux plugin manager settings to default configuration

  • Compile and install Gaia and Essentia from customized source

  • Automated install and configuration of many Beets plugins

    • acousticbrainz, albumtypes, bandcamp, describe, duplicates

    • edit, extrafiles, fromfilename, hook, importadded, info

    • lyrics, lastgenre, missing, mbsync, mpdstats, play, playlist

    • smartplaylist, mpdupdate, unimported, xtractor

  • Add help menu to mpplus

  • Add man pages for scdl and bandcamp-dl

  • Add script to download Soundcloud favorites

  • Add script to download Bandcamp collections

  • Add options to use AcousticBrainz rather than Essentia for audio information

  • Add custom targets to xtractor config

  • Add Bandcamp and Soundcloud downloads to mppinit

  • Add import and metadata retrieval to mppinit

  • Add blissify MPD library analysis and smart playlist generator

  • Add bliss-analyze acoustic analysis tool

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.3r1 (2022-07-09)

  • Add support for Raspberry Pi

  • Include mppcava fork of Cava spectrum visualizer in MusicPlayerPlus package

  • Check if DISPLAY can be used and if not execute in console mode using tmux

  • Configure MPD with user systemd service using configuration in ~/.config/mpd/

  • Add Alt-f mpcplus key binding to search music library using fzf

  • Additional custom tmux key bindings

  • Configure MPD user service in mpcinit, move MPD fifo to user MPD config dir

  • Add option to specify alternate spectrum visualizer

  • Create terminal profiles in mpcinit

  • Add support for tmuxp tmux session manager

  • Add tmuxp configuration files in ~/.config/tmuxp/

  • Convert mppsplash-tmux and mpcplus-tmux to use tmuxp

  • Use gnome-terminal as default rather than xfce4-terminal

  • Add fzmp command and fzf dependency

  • Add command line option to invoke fzmp

  • Add support for fzmp to interactive menu in mpplus

  • Add man page for fzmp

  • Add mpcplus cheat sheet

  • Rename asciijulia to mppjulia to avoid conflict with Asciiville package

  • Rename asciiplasma to mppplasma to avoid conflict with Asciiville package

  • Rename asciimpplus to mpprocks to avoid conflict with Asciiville package

  • Added asciinema dependency

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.2r1 (2022-04-14)

  • Add alsa_conf command to configure ALSA sound system

  • Add management of MPD services through mpplus command

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.1r3 (2022-04-12)

  • Disable tmux recording when tmux is disabled

  • Improve interactive menu entries

  • If -s song argument is provided look for song in MPD music library as well

  • Added interactive mode with -i command line option

  • Added support for mpplus front-end to mppsplash and mppsplash-tmux

  • Add ability to download cover art to mpplus command

  • Add option to download_cover_art to specify alternate music directory

  • Add -d option to mpplus to download album cover art

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.1r2 (2022-04-04)

  • Use MPlayer to play media during ASCIImatics animations

  • Use a signal handler in ASCIImatics animations to fade audio and cleanup

  • Use a FIFO in ASCIImatics animations to communicate with MPlayer

  • Added tmux session integration to mpplus command

  • Re-enable visualizer in mpcplus MPD client build

  • Cleanup tmux sessions, add ability to kill tmux sessions in mpplus

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.1r1 (2022-03-31)

  • Add capability to play audio while displaying ASCIImatics scenes

  • Add several ASCIImatics scenes including one during initialization

  • Rename mpcava to mpplus

  • Integration with asciinema for recording ascii terminal sessions

  • Several new commands including:

    • alsa_audio_test

    • asciijulia

    • asciimpplus

    • asciiplasma

    • download_cover_art

    • mpcinit

    • mpcplus-tmux

    • mppsplash

    • mppsplash-tmux

  • Added display of client, visualizer, and album cover art in tmux

  • Additional terminal support

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.0r1 (2022-03-26)

  • Added Debian and RPM packaging (pkg/debian/ and pkg/rpm/)

  • Added configure and compile of mpcplus to packaging scripts

  • Moved mpcplus client source into subdirectory of repository

MusicPlayerPlus-1.0.0r1 (2022-03-25)

  • Changed name to MusicPlayerPlus

mpcplus-0.10 (2022-03-25)

  • Merged in packaging, utilities, doc, and config from MusicPlayerPlus

mpcplus-0.10 (2022-03-24)

  • See mpcplus/CHANGELOG.md for history of changes to mpcplus MPD client