changelog.md

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1.20.0 Release

• Small behavior change for pinned popup and panel view
• Fix track duration format for > 1hr
• Highlight current track again works in search mode
• Refactor album/artist/genre track options popup
• Track options show on cover art hover
• Text formating and split view sizing clean up
• Use better icons/consistent buttons for some options
• Refactor new connection to fix erroneously missing thumbnails
• Tweak background color theming
• Updated default image (when cover art is not present)
• Simplify and clean up the Logger
• Track splash notify works better on Wayland
  • New fullscreen track splash option
  • Track splash config is under Playback
• New experimental screensaver mode
  • Enabled from popup or plasmoid context menu
  • Click the screensaver to stop
  • Right-click for options

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1.19.1 Release

• Fix wrong index on play/remove track when tracklist is sorted
• Gracefully handle undefined artist/album/genre on tracks
• Fix track highlight when a new connection is made

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1.19.0 Release

Require Qt 5.15, KDE Frameworks 5.76 (PlasmaExtras Representation item)

• GUI change; track view and zone view panes are combined

• Add high quality cover art option (defaults true)

• (fix) popup would not size right (set too small)

• Add background color theming

• Reformat zone view, feature track info

• Remove abbreviated zone view option

• Remove track slider visible option

• Default views use per track cover art as background

• (fix) regression to zone linking (it now works again)

• Lost connection or hosts not available more robust

• Logger viewer updated

• (fix) playlists and/or Library search were blank when connected

• (fix) Zone/Track view not loading even though connected

• Search fields can be set for the session (overriding field config)

  • does not save across sessions

• Sort options now persist per view (playlist/search/playing now)

  • does not save across sessions

• Cleanup numerous warnings and code formatting

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1.18.0 Release

Require KDE Frameworks 5.69 (KItemmodels, Kirigami 2.12 (ShadowRectangle))

• Update MCWS host config to support include/exclude zones
• Show/hide zones feature now available via configure
• Add option "checkZoneChange" which checks for zone count changes every so often
  • not available via config gui, but can be added to the main.xml, defaults false
• Connection reset now occurs properly when a host is added/removed/enabled/disabled or zones change
• Use new KSortFilterModel (faster, lighter and sort should now work again for all fields)
• Sort button now shows the sort field if the track list is sorted
• Add config option to make the popup panel bigger
• Configured search fields are now used for the Media Library Search tab
• Fix track splash not showing when cover art missing or in no-animate mode
• Add toggle for Equalizer and Loudness
• Shuffle and Repeat modes are now accessed on the popup view directly
• Zone Playback options are now accessed by clicking the Album Art for the Zone (zone view)
• Track/Artist/Album options are now accessed by clicking the Album Art for the Track (track view)
• Moved playback controls and track slider so controls are available in compact mode
• Requests JSON results from MCWS (much faster searches, somewhat less resource usage)
• Added "Album Artist (auto)" to default fields list
• Known issues
  • wayland: track splash location/animation is inconsistent
  • wayland: track name scrolling on panel view is inconsistent

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1.17.0 Release

• Numerous clean up and formatting fixes
• More porting to Kirigami in preparation for mobile
• Improved initial connection/startup performance
• It's now possible to enable/disable hosts without adding/removing
• Fixed: Handle corrupted/incomplete host config properly
• Fixed: regression to default to playing zone
• Fixed: playback controls sizing craziness when panel grows/shrinks
• Requires Qt 5.12 or later

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1.16.0 Release

• Add next to play and end of list options in Track Detail
• Clean up the logging/debugging stuff
  • Logging can be enabled on Config/Playback Options
• Internal comms clean up; handle failed connections gracefully
• Use MCWS friendlyname instead of host:port for connection display
  • Host:port must still be set up correctly and are used for the connection to MCWS
  • Might require MCWS host to be re-configured (hopefully not)
• More robust track info support for Web Streams
• Updated some controls and config options to better handle QuickControls2-Desktop-Style
• Change the zone view format to bring track pos slider up with playback countdown
• Track pos slider now defaults to "show" on new installs

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1.15.1 Release

• Really work with Qt >= 5.11

1.15.0 Release

• Fix "highlight playing track" on search (regression)
• Fix resetting view when connection changes (regression)
• Fix Splash import to 2.11 (regression)
• Show zone cover art in background on popup window
• Port away from PlasmaCore.IconItem to Kirigami.Icon
• Fix explicit sizing vs. sizing by zone count for adv panel view
• New install defaults adv panel sizing to size by zone count
• Hiding zones is now smoother when changing connection

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1.14 Release

• Update readme for web streams setup
• Major Refactor/rename/cleanup mcws connection interface
• Fix flashing pause indicator on panel view (regression)
• Temporarily removed the Streams page
• Rework the command submission/refresh for faster response to change
• Add debug logger window (Enable with allowDebug=true in main.xml)

1.13 Release

• Requires Qt 5.11+/Kirigami 2.3+
• Add option to disable scrolling track name
• Refactor listview delegates - fixes some scrolling/painting anamolies
• Port away from QQC1 to QQC2/Kirigami
• Port to "helpers", common QML modules for other projects
• Major refactor for the splasher
• Remove transition animations from list views (paint issues)
• Add basic DSP features (currently only Equalizer On)
• Use animatedLoad on Track images, speeds larger searches, scrolling
• Refactor compact view to make L-to-R/R-to-L size properly
• Initial support for streaming sources (SomaFM only, currently)
• Hacks to handle viewing web streams a little nicer
• Numerous performance updates regards animations and cover art
• Much more robust panel view sizing, RTL and LTR
• Add feature to hide zones from the views (does not save across sessions)
• Add config option to hide playback controls completely

1.12 Release

• Clean up Connections Config
• Compact view positioning and sizing works better with Latte and Plasma5 panels
• Fix for Track Positioner crashing MC
• Zone poller uses less CPU resource
• Playback commands are more responsive
• Fix display issue with null artist or album fields
• Issuing many playback commands simultaneously no longer crashes MC
• Marquee track name in compact view

1.11 Release

• Bugfixes and cleanup for null/missing fields from MCWS search
• Add repeat mode/shuffle mode support
• Add Audio Path display
• Add Audio Device selection support
• TrackView option to send list to any other zone
• Add sorting option for all track lists (searches/playlists/playing now)
• Sorting and search fields can now be set up in Config

1.10 Release

• Significant resource reduction (turn off Qt image cache)
• More responsive track view for playing now and searches
• Last search is remembered
• New sizing options (consistent between Plasma panels and Latte)
• Cosmetics clean up for HiDPI in adv panel view
• Fix regressions to the track splash being out-of-sync
• Other fixes and cleanups

1.9 Release

• Better video playback support (fullscreen option)
• Search results shuffle option
• Tooltip for next track in playlist
• Tooltip for track detail
• Startup performance improvement
• Numerous fixes and clean up

1.8 Release

• Optional high/low quality thumbnails
• More optimizations for thumbs and playback status
• Shuffle is available from track detail view
• Track detail view is more responsive
• Cosmetic refinement for playlist view and attribute (artist, album, etc.) searching

1.7 Release

• Fix some playback settings regressions (repeat mode, zone link)
• Better support for video tracks
• Attribute search (artist, genre, etc.) can now search all media types or audio only
• See track details for playlist and attribute searches
• Play a playlist directly from Track Detail View
• Minor cosmetic fixes to titles and formatting

1.60 Release

• Lots of little fixes and polish
• Changes to the host setup options (you will have to re-add your hosts)
• Panel view fonts now scale properly

1.51 Release

• Gui clean-ups
• Minor fixes

1.5 Release

• Add optional track image as playback indicator in compact view
• Refactor track splasher to work with compact view
• Minor optimizations and clean-ups

1.4 Release

• Added option for abbreviated track detail view (defaults on, turn off in options for original behavior)
• Added track duration (min:sec) to track detail view
• Fixed a panel view painting nit
• Advanced Panel view controls are now less aggressive with mouse hover

1.3 Release

• Fix "undefined" playlists
• Add Track to current playing now from track detail view
• Add stop button option to panel view
• Minor cleanup

1.2 Release

• Polish advanced tray view formatting/layout behavior
• Advanced tray view now auto-connects at start up (first host in the list)
• Initial startup/connect more resource-friendly

1.1 Release

• New Feature: Advanced tray view options
• Bug Fixes: Various visual update fixes

1.0 Release

• Usability

  • Use Plasma theme/fonts
  • Playlist search

• Track Search

  • Searching tracks is a bit more usable
  • now include track name with Artist Album and Genre
  • search results can be played/queued immediately
  • one character searching defaults to "starts with"
  • more than one character searching defaults to "contains"