Upcoming moOde 7.3.0 release

[Tim Curtis]

Here are latest draft release notes.

A new ALSA Output Mode feature has been added that provides more low level control of the audio chain :-)

               

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New features

- NEW: ALSA output modes including Default (plughw) and Direct (hw)
- NEW: Volume normalization and format options for librespot

Updates

- UPD: Bump to MPD 0.22.8
- UPD: Bump to librespot 0.2.0
- UPD: Bump to CamillaDSP 0.5.3, GUI 0.4.1, Backend 0.7.1, Plot 0.5.3
- UPD: Simplify ALSA framework
- UPD: Add verbose debug option to CamillaDSP
- UPD: Run updMpdConf() after in-place update
- UPD: Improve method for updating currentsong.txt
- UPD: Option to turn off Now-playing (EQ bars) icon
- UPD: Option to turn off CoverView Playbar
- UPD: Enable rpi-cirrus-wm5102.dtbo to show in DT overlay list
- UPD: Route Bluetooth through ALSA framework
- UPD: Load i2c-dev at boot time via /etc/modules
- UPD: Set theme-color meta element in header to Theme color
- UPD: Add Output chain and Loopback state to Audio info
- UPD: Improve how MPD Config changes are processed
- UPD: Drop Max USB current (not applicable anymore)

Bug fixes

- FIX: Missing "Roonbridge Active" in currentsong.txt
- FIX: Currentsong.txt truncated at startup
- FIX: Airplay, Spotify renderers crash when ALSA Loopback On
- FIX: DSP confs break when audioout set to Bluetooth
- FIX: Station Home page field not in Audio info
- FIX: Wlan0 power save not disabled during startup for Pi-Zero W
- FIX: Instability in libcurl3 shipped with RaspiOS Buster
- FIX: Permissions on shairport-sync debug log
- FIX: Missing -u option in shairport-sync logging
- FIX: CamillaDSP and 64-bit kernel showing for 32-bit only Pi's
- FIX: WiFi/BT options missing from System config for Zero W
- FIX: Display wakes when USB DAC disconnected if Wake on play ON

-Tim