Upcoming moOde release 4.4 (this month)

[Tim Curtis]

Hi,

Below is a preview of the release notes for the upcoming release of moOde 4.4. There will be an in-place upgrade available for moOde 4.3 as well as an ISO moOde 4.4 image.

moOde 4.4 is based on the new MPD 0.21 series and also includes the latest shairport-sync 3.2.2, an armv6l/7l version of librespot and many bug fixes and improvements.

Code:

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// 4.4 2018-MM-DD
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New features

- NEW: MPD release 0.21.1
- NEW: Clock radio days-of-the-week setting
- NEW: Customize settings for compilation rollup and excludes

Radio stations

- NEW: CBC Radio 2

Updates

- UPD: Bump to Linux kernel 4.14.79
- UPD: Bump to shairport-sync 3.2.2
- UPD: Add entry for "On-board audio device" to cfg_audiodev
- UPD: Add exception logging to coverart and thumbcache.php
- UPD: Add failsafe loop exit to Zend Flac.php
- UPD: Add RT params to mpd.service unit
- UPD: Disable Spotify audio file cache
- UPD: Change method used to purge thumcache for regen

Bug fixes

- FIX: Blank image backdrop on Customize in certain scenarios
- FIX: Modal control spacing when full screen
- FIX: Librespot fail on armv6l (Pi 1B | Zero | Zero W)
- FIX: Thumbnails not generated for mp3 embedded covers
- FIX: Title out of sync when click on same radio station

-Tim

[samplehunter]

Hi Tim,

"FIX Thumbnails not generated for mp3 embedded covers[...] )

Thank you for this big fix !

I' can't wait for this update.

Samplehunter

[Dropbear67]

great work. looking forward to trying the new version of shairport-sync

[yaslam]

Hi,

Below is a preview of the release notes for the upcoming release of moOde 4.4. There will be an in-place upgrade available for moOde 4.3 as well as an ISO moOde 4.4 image.

moOde 4.4 is based on the new MPD 0.21 series and also includes the latest shairport-sync 3.2.2, an armv6l/7l version of librespot and many bug fixes and improvements.

Code:

########################################################
//
// 4.4 2018-MM-DD
//
########################################################

New features

- NEW: MPD release 0.21.1
- NEW: Clock radio days-of-the-week setting
- NEW: Customize settings for compilation rollup and excludes

Radio stations

- NEW: CBC Radio 2

Updates

- UPD: Bump to Linux kernel 4.14.79
- UPD: Bump to shairport-sync 3.2.2
- UPD: Add entry for "On-board audio device" to cfg_audiodev
- UPD: Add exception logging to coverart and thumbcache.php
- UPD: Add failsafe loop exit to Zend Flac.php
- UPD: Add RT params to mpd.service unit
- UPD: Disable Spotify audio file cache
- UPD: Change method used to purge thumcache for regen

Bug fixes

- FIX: Blank image backdrop on Customize in certain scenarios
- FIX: Modal control spacing when full screen
- FIX: Librespot fail on armv6l (Pi 1B | Zero | Zero W)
- FIX: Thumbnails not generated for mp3 embedded covers
- FIX: Title out of sync when click on same radio station

-Tim

Hi Tim, 

The MPD version of moode 4.4 is still 0.20.20.
How is MPD update to 0.21 going?

[TheOldPresbyope]

Hi,

Below is a preview of the release notes for the upcoming release of moOde 4.4. There will be an in-place upgrade available for moOde 4.3 as well as an ISO moOde 4.4 image.

moOde 4.4 is based on the new MPD 0.21 series and also includes the latest shairport-sync 3.2.2, an armv6l/7l version of librespot and many bug fixes and improvements.

Code:

########################################################
//
// 4.4 2018-MM-DD
//
########################################################

New features

- NEW: MPD release 0.21.1
- NEW: Clock radio days-of-the-week setting
- NEW: Customize settings for compilation rollup and excludes

Radio stations

- NEW: CBC Radio 2

Updates

- UPD: Bump to Linux kernel 4.14.79
- UPD: Bump to shairport-sync 3.2.2
- UPD: Add entry for "On-board audio device" to cfg_audiodev
- UPD: Add exception logging to coverart and thumbcache.php
- UPD: Add failsafe loop exit to Zend Flac.php
- UPD: Add RT params to mpd.service unit
- UPD: Disable Spotify audio file cache
- UPD: Change method used to purge thumcache for regen

Bug fixes

- FIX: Blank image backdrop on Customize in certain scenarios
- FIX: Modal control spacing when full screen
- FIX: Librespot fail on armv6l (Pi 1B | Zero | Zero W)
- FIX: Thumbnails not generated for mp3 embedded covers
- FIX: Title out of sync when click on same radio station

-Tim

Hi Tim, 

The MPD version of moode 4.4 is still 0.20.20.
How is MPD update to 0.21 going?

That was a preview copy of the notes. The final release notes do not mention 0.21. For info see http://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.p...26#pid6126

Regards,
Kent