Upcoming moOde 6.4.0 update

[Tim Curtis]

Hi,

Here are some screen shots of what's coming in the 6.4.0 update. I'll add to this thread as things get done.

These pics show a couple of things:

1. Tag view having the same grouping, by Year or By Artist, as Album view
2. Year displayed under the cover thumb in Tag view

                           
This pic shows the new Max ALSA volume setting.

   

-Tim

[gbh_uk]

Many thanks for implementing sort-by-year!  It's a feature I've been eagerly hoping for - but not so that the view reminds me of when the albums were released, purely so that albums for a particular artist are shown in chronological order.

With that in mind may I suggest a minor change to how you've modified the display in Album view in 6.3.0, and hopefully to the tag-view that you're currently working on:

Can you please consider making the display of the year a configurable option?

Reason(s): 

• Image 1 - if the date tags are missing then the album shows up as Year 0.  Sure I can go in and edit the tags but it's perhaps better to not show a year at all in those instances.
  
• Image 2 - the date 1979 now takes up valuable space that would otherwise have been used to display the full album title.  Of course the year is important for sorting, but my question is does it really need to be displayed?
  
• image 3 shows how it used to look (achieved by hiding the span with class album-year).
  

So, thanks once again for implementing the sort-by-year functionality, I've edited the CSS to hide the actual year for now, but my plea would be to make whether the year actually shows or is hidden in both views, configurable.



Regards
Gary

[Tim Curtis]

Ya, I could prolly do that. I'll add to the TODO list.

[Tim Curtis]

I had planned a small patch release (6.3.1) but as it turns out there are quite a few nice updates as well as bug fixes so to be faithful to major.minor.patch version numbering its necessary to bump the minor version.

Here's the WIP release notes.

Code:

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// 6.4.0 2019-MM-DD
//
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Updates

- UPD: Bump to Linux kernel 4.19.79 build #1273
- UPD: Bump to alsa-capabilities 2.0.1
- UPD: Tag View album list gets same grouping as Album View
- UPD: Hide quick jump index if grouping albums by year
- UPD: Quick jump to artist if grouping by Artist
- UPD: Add network interface info to Moode log
- UPD: Add max ALSA volume setting to Audio Config
- UPD: Add HifiBerry DAC/DAC+ Zero to audio device table
- UPD: Add option -F to moodeutl to print sample rates

Bug fixes

- FIX: JSON encode fail in genLibrary() if bad UTF-8 chars
- FIX: Wrong symbol code used for microseconds in html Sysinfo
- FIX: Swap file not disabled

[gabeg]

Any chance of fixing qobuz streaming?

[Tim Curtis]

Thats a question for the maintainer of the upmpdcli project.
https://opensourceprojects.eu/p/upmpdcli/tickets/63/

[grasshopper]

Any chance of fixing qobuz streaming?

I wouldn't hold your breath, from the reading I have done this was an exercise to shut down the stream ripping software more than anything, that all used the same id & key as upmpdcli.  

[jonners]

Any chance of fixing qobuz streaming?

I don't have a Qobuz subscription atm, but i"m still able to stream 30sec extracts to Moode using BubbleUPnP on my Android tablet. It just seems to be the function of Moode as a UPnP Media Browser that no longer works with Qobuz.

[TheOldPresbyope]

To see what the developer ("medoc") of upmpdci thinks of this situation with Qobuz, have a look at his post at the end of this thread https://opensourceprojects.eu/p/upmpdcli/tickets/63/

[Tim Curtis]

Here's the latest draft release notes for 6.4.0

Code:

########################################################
//
// 6.4.0 2019-MM-DD
//
########################################################

Updates

- UPD: Bump to Linux kernel 4.19.79 build #1273
- UPD: Bump to alsa-capabilities 2.0.1
- UPD: Tag View album list gets same grouping as Album View
- UPD: Hide quick jump index if grouping albums by year
- UPD: Quick jump to artist if grouping by Artist
- UPD: Add network interface info to Moode log
- UPD: Add max ALSA volume setting to Audio Config
- UPD: Add HifiBerry DAC/DAC+ Zero to audio device table
- UPD: Add option -F to moodeutl to print sample rates
- UPD: Add eye icon for show/hide password plaintext
- UPD: Add XFS filesystem support to udisks-glue
- UPD: Gpio-buttons Python 2/3 compatibility improvements


Bug fixes

- FIX: JSON encode fail in genLibrary() if bad UTF-8 chars
- FIX: Wrong symbol code used for microseconds in html Sysinfo
- FIX: Swap file not disabled during build
- FIX: PSK not generated when password contains certain chars
- FIX: Menu anomaly on iOS 13 / A12 processors