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Version 7.0 - 2008-03-03

General:
- Renamed SlimServer to SqueezeCenter
Firmware updates:
- Use new OpenDNS servers if default DNS servers fail, when connecting to SN
- Squeezebox 2 - Version 86
- Squeezebox 2 - Version 84
- Squeezebox 2 - Version 83
- Transporter - Version 36
- Transporter - Version 34
- Transporter - Version 33
File Formats:
- WavPack is now supported.
Internationalization:
- Updated official translations (EN, DE, ES, FR, IT, NL)
- Updated Danish translations from Bjørn Haagensen
Internet Radio/Music on Demand:
- Support for Slacker
- Support for Pandora
- Support for Rhapsody Direct
- Support for MP3tunes
- Last.fm AudioScrobbler is now included.
SqueezeNetwork:
- Preferences integration - preferences for SqueezeCenter and SqueezeNetwork are synchronized.
- View and switch players that are connected to SqueezeNetwork.
Skins:
- Brand new default skin
- Old Default skin renamed to Classic
- Fishbone: ability to toggle display of album text in gallery view
- Fishbone: drag n drop playlist manipulation
- Classic & Fishbone: popup album track list when clicking on album art
- Classic & Fishbone: browse multiple levels with 'tree' view (icon on left of browse items)
- unsupported and unmaintained skins are no longer part of the distribution
Performance:
- #259 - Syncing of multiple players has been greatly improved. Players are now able to stay in sync with each other even in the face of poor network conditions or while playing long radio streams.
Player UI:
- Suppress "Play All" at top level browse menus
- Play other songs on album feature is now a per-player setting - default is to use the older server preference if no player preference has been chosen yet
- Repeated pressing of browse or search button will now toggle through the list of options respectively
Platform Support:
- Logging/Debugging has been overhauled. We now use Log::Log4perl
- Logging/Debugging is now multi-level and persistent across server restarts.
Tag Reading:
- Some fixes to WMA tag reading
- Browse Music Folder can add album covers in new folders
- Ape tags now reported as the ID3 version if found
Plugins:
- Pre-Distributed plugins now stored in Slim/Plugin
- Third party plugins require rewrite to new API
- Third party plugins only to be installed in Plugins folder
CLI API:
- Browse Music Folder
- Browse filesystems from the server's point of view
- Rescan progress
- Please see the documentation in docs/cli-api.html for details, in particular about API changes that may impact your client
Bug Fixes:
- #223 - add WavPack support
- #1524 - make live search skinnable
- #3351 - Composers included in Artist count when browsing by Genre
- #3548 - Cycle through menu by pressing the Search/Browse buttons
- #4104 - link to FAQ under help shouldn't put ?player=[MACADDY] at end of url
- #4137 - Sort the list of radios returned by radios query
- #4188 - CUE-sheet can't be browsed in player, OK in web interface
- #4259 - Fishbone never refreshes playlist
- #4293 - Move to using Log::Log4perl to replace --d_* debugging.
- #4338 - MusicMagic => MusicIP
- #4351 - change to idle screensaver when playback stops during Now Playing" screensaver.
- #4405 - Rhapsody/Upnp browse only works on Default skin
- #4408 - MoodLogic errors with MoodLogic disabled
- #4409 - All fonts lost
- #4466 - Wrong sorting order in "browse songs" list at the player
- #4421 - Pressing play when displaying a track title in the playlist plays Track 1
- #4485 - Artwork files are not picked up in unicode-named folders
- #4498 - Advanced search for compilation album shows all tracks twice
- #4507 - Touch skin needs to work in IE
- #4513 - SqueezeCenter should ignore the iTunes COMMENTs: ITUNPGAP & ITUNSMPB
- #4516 - Enabling Playlists Breaks Search Results
- #4579 - Bonjour fails to initialize
- #4595 - CLI support for Browse music folder
- #4598 - Better CLI scanner access
- #4625 - artists cli query does not always return an artist for tracks in compilations
- #4629 - For albums with ALBUMARTIST, track artists don't have any albums listed when searching for track artists from the player UI
- #4678 - Localize DateTime screensaver
- #4707 - Forcing transcode to MP3 results in a bit rate of 0
- #4730 - Echo from CLI when next song in playlist
- #4822 - Create a new playlist via CLI
- #4849 - Default time display should not include seconds
- #4873 - Error creating INI entry in Logitech.url
- #4877 - Shorten files option in SqueezeCenter not needed any more
- #4922 - When PlayList is empty, Download brings up a blank web page and gets stuck there
- #4927 - ID3v2.4 date tags ignored
- #4941 - New music limit not working
- #4947 - Search does not search '0'
- #4955 - items per page preference off by 1
- #5075 - Upgrade flac binary to latest version (1.2.1)
- #5080 - Live search doesn't display artist with albums
- #5093 - Nokia770 skin on Nokia N800 shows a vertical scroll bar and the page footer moves bottom of the page when scrolling
- #5112 - Allow multiple plugins to register buttons in same mode
- #5159 - Album thumbnail lost when music file mtime changes
- #5160 - Debian plugins path needs updating after Slim/Plugin/* reorg
- #5165 - Option not to filter genres at album and track level doesn't work
- #5193 - Restore CSRF protection. Patch by Peter Watkins
- #5197 - I18n: Strange shortcut links in Artist view.
- #5217 - First file in iTunes library is not scanned into SlimServer
- #5218 - iTunes playlists scanned but not visible in interface
- #5221 - Set Player block/unblock mode through CLI command
- #5255 - CLI muting
- #5287 - Artist link from basic search results ignores gallery setting
- #5296 - MUSICBRAINZ_SORTNAME - not supported but in code?
- #5324 - SqueezeCenter should run with group permissions from /etc/groups
- #5432 - Random mix plugin no longer at menu top level
- #5443 - Difficult specifying desired sort order (national characters)
- #5444 - Random Mix status doesn't update in non-continuous mode
- #5607 - Debugging settings not shown after restart
- #5610 - ResetDisplay method failed
- #5831 - APE tag processing isn't listed in the ID3 tag version
- #5838 - returning bad data to illogical request
- #5839 - Song order for addalbum makes no sense
- #5842 - Can't play all songs from favorites
- #5858 - Cookies on stream requests
- #5871 - Numeric key selection not correct within Browse New Music
- #5902 - Alarm triggers on all players / displays on all players
- #5944 - No "Added to playlist" message when an album is picked from the Music Folder browser
- #5973 - Slimserver cannot read Genre tag above numeric ID 79 for AIFF files.
- #6163 - no way for 3rd party plugins to add custom icons
- #6167 - Random Mix "recently played songs" value can not be set to zero.
- #6294 - Track title is incorrect when album is a whole-CD flac file with cuesheet and track is in a playlist
- #6507 - ALBUMARTIST tag causes ARTISTSORT tags to be lost
- #3332 - Audio plays back at 44.1 KHz with 48Khz FLAC's when decompressing at server
- #4098 - Wrong time after scanning through a file / scanning short songs jumps to next track
- #4391 - Softsqueeze cannot play certain FLAC files
- #4760 - Players not doing FF/RW while synced
- #5210 - Now Playing & Time Incorrect On Synced Players with RandomPlay
- #5271 - 7.0a1 does not play WAV file of 16 bits
- #5631 - Problem with WMA files read from a UPnP media server
- #6508 - Occasional songs freeze with no sound
- #6539 - Sync via player UI breaks sometimes
- #6666 - Synchronisation offset when unpausing if player has volume set to 0