Upcoming moOde 6.5.0

[Tim Curtis]

Hi,

Here's an updated draft release notes. There are a lot of nice improvements to the Library including one where Play or Instant Play (a radio station or track) will first check to see if the item is already in the Playlist and if so will play the existing item instead of adding a new duplicate item. This greatly reduces clutter in the Playlist and it makes Instant Play much more useful :-)

I've also bumped to the latest MPD 0.21.22 release and included the in-development MPD 0.22~git for testing and experimentation.

Code:

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New features

- NEW: Upgrade to Raspbian Buster Lite 10.3 2020-02-13
- NEW: Library play or instant play existing Playlist item
- NEW: Library Tag and Album views get their own sorts
- NEW: Library custom search by year or year range
- NEW: Library context menu option for Track info
- NEW: MPD DB and Thumb udpate combined into "Library update"
- NEW: CoverView screen saver with Playbar controls
- NEW: Appearance options including Global font size
- NEW: Audio config option for USB volume knob
- NEW: System config option for LED0 and LED1
- NEW: Spotify config option to autoplay similar songs
- NEW: Configurable volume step limit
- NEW: Configurable max MPD volume

Updates

- UPD: Bump to Linux kernel 4.19.102 build #1295
- UPD: Bump to MPD 0.21.22 (default) plus MPD 0.22~git (test)
- UPD: Bump to shairport-sync 3.3.6
- UPD: Bump to librespot v0.1.1 (armv7l-only)
- UPD: Bump to moodeutl 1.4.0
- UPD: Adaptive UI v6 performance and usability improvements
- UPD: Add DSD rate to extra-metadata
- UPD: Add -D option to moodeutl (delete session var)
- UPD: Add click anywhere off context menu to close
- UPD: Add confirmation modals to Library config
- UPD: Add "No action" option to Library Instant play action
- UPD: Add ability to update station logo while editing station
- UPD: Add Command API section to Setup guide
- UPD: Disable apt-daily and apt-daily-upgrade timers
- UPD: Deprecate librespot armv6l binary

Bug fixes

- FIX: Wrong DSD encoded-at rates shown on Audio info
- FIX: Audio info Formats showing PHP error message
- FIX: WiFi/BT options missing from System config for Zero W
- FIX: Last track (toggle song) id not persisting
- FIX: Minor corrections to Setup guide

Radio stations

- UPD: RadioActive FM 88.6
- UPD: Swedish Classic Radio
- UPD: WBJC Baltimore 91.5 - Classical
- DEL: Amys FM (320K)
- DEL: Amys FM Spirit of Soul (320K)
- DEL: JB Radio-2 USA (320K)
- DEL: Radio Monash
- DEL: Rinse FM
- DEL: VRT - Sporza