Upcoming moOde 7.2.0 release

[GStevens]

Hi,

Upcoming moOde 7.2.0 release is in testing :-)

This release contains important bug fixes and updates and a couple of nice enhancements including an ALSA pipeline that makes it easy to capture the raw PCM stream from the Loopback device and an I2S device option to specify the device overlay for devices that don't appear in the named device list.



Draft release notes.

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New features

- NEW: ALSA routing and loopback option

Radio stations

- NEW: ByteFM
- UPD: Ancient FM - Mediaeval and Renaissance Music
- UPD: BBC 128K stations
- UPD: WKCR 89.9 FM

Updates

- UPD: Show Quick Convolution filter friendly name in Audio info
- UPD: Revert the "Artist +" library option (not useful)
- UPD: Allo Boss2 OLED display script and startup
- UPD: Enhance I2S configuration to support more devices
- UPD: CamillaDSP: Show encoding of wave file
- UPD: CamillaDSP: Improved wave file converter
- UPD: Drop UAC2 fix (not applicable anymore)

Bug fixes

- FIX: Wlan_country param missing from auto-config export
- FIX: Wrong squeezelite compile in release image
- FIX: Genre data for several radio stations
- FIX: Capitalization and terminology in Audio info
- FIX: CamillaDSP: Save not disabled when other DSP active
- FIX: CamillaDSP: Config dropdown not disabled when other DSP active
- FIX: CamillaDSP: Relative paths on first use of config
- FIX: CamillaDSP: Wave file converter doesn't support floats
- FIX: CamillaDSP: Work around bug in yaml parser
- FIX: Typo in sysinfo output for throttled state

Hi Tim,

Regarding the upcoming 7.2 change re Artist+ option:
I have a mainly Classical collection of music, and I find the the availablity of being able to filter the list of albums by Composer very useful - e.g. all Organ music composed by J. S. Bach.  I do not find that the mixture of Artists and Composers (created by the Artist+ option) a problem.
Does the reversion that you propose for 7.2 mean that Composers will not be displayed in the main UI display?  I realise that a search is always possible, but the Artist+ option works for me.
...or perhaps 7.2 will provide a different method.

Thanks,
Geoff