CHANGELOG.md

ncmpcpp-0.10 (????-??-??)

• Add the configuration option mpd_password.
• Separate chunks of lyrics with a double newline.
• Fix separator between albums with the same name, to check for album artist instead of artist.

ncmpcpp-0.9.2 (2021-01-24)

• Revert suppression of output of all external commands as that makes e.g album art addons no longer work.
• Gracefully handle failures when asking for a password.

ncmpcpp-0.9.1 (2020-12-23)

• Add support for fetching lyrics from musixmatch.com.
• Fix intermittent failures of the Genius fetcher.
• Fix crash on startup with Visualizer as the initial screen.
• Fix crash on startup with Browser as the initial screen.
• Show the Visualizer immediately if it's the initial screen.
• Draw a separator between albums with the same name, but a different artist.
• Suppress output of all external commands.
• Consider mouse support when pausing and unpausing curses interface.
• Reduce CPU usage of the frequency spectrum visualizer.
• Enable Link Time Optimization by default.
• Enable full sorting of items in the local browser if it's not.
• Bind Play to Backspace by default.
• Fix fetching information about artists from last.fm.

ncmpcpp-0.9 (2020-12-20)

• Fix various Mopidy specific bugs.
• Add run_external_console_command action for running terminal applications.
• Pass lyrics filename in single quotes to shell.
• Add support for fetching lyrics from zeneszoveg.hu.
• Add Play action for starting playback in stopped state.
• Properly expand ~ in mpd_host when preceded by a password.
• Add support for message_delay_time equal to 0.
• Add support for album only view in the Media Library.
• Add random_exclude_pattern option to a configuration file.
• Add connected_message_on_startup option to a configuration file.
• Fix compilation with GCC 10.
• Remove Lyricwiki fetcher as the site closed down.
• Remove Lyricsmania fetcher as it no longer works.
• Fix Genius and Tekstowo fetchers.
• Add dedicated Load action for loading playlists.
• Add media_library_hide_album_dates option to a configuration file.
• Improve look of the frequency spectrum visualizer.
• Add visualizer_spectrum_smooth_look, visualizer_spectrum_dft_size, visualizer_spectrum_gain, visualizer_spectrum_hz_min and visualizer_spectrum_hz_max options to a configuration file for controlling the look of the new spectrum visualizer.
• Add visualizer_autoscale option to a configuration file.
• Add visualizer_fps option to a configuration file (60 by default).
• Allow for editing multiple titles in the Tag Editor.
• Support gstreamer's udpsink as a data source for visualization (Mopidy).
• Deprecate visualizer_fifo_path in favor of visualizer_data_source.
• Don't run volume changing actions if there is no mixer.
• Do not loop after sending a database update command to Mopidy.
• Deprecate visualizer_sync_interval configuration option.
• Deprecate noop value of browser_sort_mode in favor of none.
• Add type value of browser_sort_mode (set by default).
• Prefer $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ncmpcpp as a folder with configuration.

ncmpcpp-0.8.2 (2018-04-11)

• Help screen: fixed display of EoF keycode
• Fixed possible integer overflow when resizing screen
• Fixed fetching lyrics from lyricsmania.com, metrolyrics.com and sing365.com
• Search engine now properly interacts with filtering
• Fixed redraw of separator after interface switch while MPD was stopped
• Reset position of a window when fetching lyrics
• Fixed compilation with ICU >= 61.

ncmpcpp-0.8.1 (2017-10-11)

• Setting colors_enabled to no no longer results in a crash.
• Using --quiet command line argument no longer results in a crash.
• If songs in media library have no track numbers, sort them by their display format.
• Fixed a situation in which songs added to playlist from media library or playlist editor screens would not be immediately marked as such.
• Do not start prompt with the current search constraint when applying a new one.

ncmpcpp-0.8 (2017-05-21)

• Configuration variable execute_on_player_state_change was added.
• Support for controlling whether ncmpcpp should display multiple tags as-is or make an effort to hide duplicate values (show_duplicate_tags configuration variable, enabled by default).
• Support for filtering of lists was brought back from the dead.
• Require C++14 compatible compiler during compilation.
• Lyrics from files containing DOS line endings now load properly on Linux.
• Added support for fetching lyrics from genius.com.
• Added support for fetching lyrics from tekstowo.pl.
• The list of lyrics fetchers can now be set via configuration file.
• Lyrics can now be fetched for songs with no tags.
• libcurl dependency is no longer optional.
• When an attempt to write tags fails, show detailed error message.
• Support for fetching lyrics for selected items in background was added.
• Application will now exit if stdin is closed.
• Configuration variable visualizer_sample_multiplier was deprecated and will be removed in 0.9.
• Wide character version of ncurses is now required.
• Added statusbar_time_color and player_state_color configuration variables for further customization of statusbar.
• Setting foreground color only now preserves current background color.
• Format information can now be attached to selected color variables in the configuration file. Because of that variable progressbar_boldness is now deprecated in favor of extended progressbar_color and progressbar_elapsed_color (for more information see example configuration file).
• Lyrics and last_fm can now be startup screens and are lockable.
• Action update_environment now also synchronizes status with MPD.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some MPD events to be missed.
• Action jump_to_playing_song is not runnable now if there is no playing song.
• Fixed fetching artist info in language other than English.
• Added test that checks if lyrics fetchers work (available via command line parameter --test-lyrics-fetchers).
• Fixed fetching lyrics from justsomelyrics.com.
• Added support for fetching lyrics from jah-lyrics.com and plyrics.com.
• Seek immediately after invoking appropriate action once.
• Added support for locating current song in playlist editor.
• Disable autocenter mode while searching and filtering.
• Added --quiet comand line argument that supresses messages shown at startup.
• Multiple songs in Media library are now added to playlist in the same order they are displayed.
• Added configuration option media_library_albums_split_by_date that determines whether albums in media library should be split by date.
• Added configuration option ignore_diacritics that allows for ignoring diacritics while searching (boost compiled with ICU support is required).
• Added support for reading multiple bindings files (the ones in ~/.ncmpcpp/bindings and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ncmpcpp/bindings are read by default).
• main_window_highlight_color and active_column_color configuration options are now deprecated in favor of current_item_prefix/current_item_suffix and current_item_inactive_column_prefix/current_item_inactive_column_suffix (note that now highlight of inactive column is customizable instead of the active one in presence of multiple columns).

ncmpcpp-0.7.7 (2016-10-31)

• Fixed compilation on 32bit platforms.

ncmpcpp-0.7.6 (2016-10-30)

• Fixed assertion failure on trying to search backwards in an empty list.
• Updated installation instructions in INSTALL file.
• Make sure that stream of random numbers is not deterministic.
• Opening playlist editor when there is no MPD playlists directory no longer freezes the application.
• Added info about behavior of MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT environment variables to man page.
• Tilde will now be expanded to home directory in visualizer_fifo_path, execute_on_song_change and external_editor configuration variables.
• Fixed lyricwiki and justsomelyrics fetchers.

ncmpcpp-0.7.5 (2016-08-17)

• Action chains can be now used for seeking.
• Fixed fetching artist info from last.fm.
• Default value of regular_expressions was changed from basic to perl to work around boost issue (#12222).
• Fixed crash occuring when searching backward in an empty list.

ncmpcpp 0.7.4 (2016-04-17)

• Fetching lyrics from lyricwiki.org was fixed.
• Configure script now continues without errors if ICU library was not found.

ncmpcpp 0.7.3 (2016-01-20)

• Home and End keys are now recognized in a few specific terminal emulators.

ncmpcpp-0.7.2 (2016-01-16)

• Attempt to add non-song item to playlist from search engine doesn't trigger assertion failure anymore.
• Fetching lyrics from metrolyrics.com was fixed.
• Alternative UI separator color is now respected regardless of the header_visibility flag.

ncmpcpp-0.7.1 (2016-01-01)

• Selected songs in media library can now be added to playlists.
• Confirmation before shuffling a playlist can now be disabled.

ncmpcpp-0.7 (2015-11-22)

• Playlist sorting dialog now contains Album artist option.
• Default keybindings were corrected to allow tag edition in the right column of tag editor.
• Mouse is properly kept disabled if it was disabled in the configuration file.

ncmpcpp-0.6.8 (2015-11-11)

• Application is now compatible with MPD >= 0.20.
• Check for readline library was fixed.

ncmpcpp-0.7_beta1 (2015-11-04)

• Visualizer has now support for multiple colors (visualizer_color configuration variable takes the list of colors to be used).
• Visualizer has now support for two more modes: sound wave filled and sound ellipse.
• Visualizer's spectrum mode now scales better along with window's width.
• It is now possible to abort the current action using Ctrl-C or Ctrl-G in prompt mode. As a result, empty value is no longer a special value that aborts most of the actions.
• Directories and playlists in browser can now be sorted by modification time.
• ~ is now expanded to home directory in mpd_host configuration variable.
• It is now possible to define startup slave screen using -S/--slave-screen command line option or startup_slave_screen configuration variable.
• List filtering has been removed due to the major part of its functionality overlapping with find forward/backward and obscure bugs.
• Find backward/forward function is now incremental.
• Support for 256 colors and customization of background colors has been added.
• Multiple configuration files via command line arguments are now accepted. In addition, by default ncmpcpp attempts to read both $HOME/.ncmpcpp/config and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ncmpcpp/config (in this order).
• Support for PDCurses has been removed due to the library being unmaintained and buggy.
• Current MPD host may now be shown in playlist (playlist_show_mpd_host configuration variable, disabled by default).
• Random album artists can now be added to the playlist.
• Case insensitive searching is now Unicode aware as long as boost was compiled with ICU support.
• Searching with regular expressions is now enabled by default.
• Support for the Perl regular expression syntax was added.
• BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX configure variable is now empty by default.
• Shuffle function now shuffles only selected range if selection in playlist is active.
• NCurses terminal sequence escaping is no longer used as it's not accurate enough.
• Selecting items no longer depends on space mode and is bound by default to Insert key.
• Support for Alt, Ctrl and Shift modifiers as well as Escape key was added.
• Action that updates the environment can now be used in bindings configuration file.
• Monolithic press_space action was split into add_item_to_playlist, toggle_lyrics_update_on_song_change and toggle_visualization_type.
• Monolithic press_enter action was split into enter_directory, play_item, run_action and toggle_output.
• Sorting actions were rebound to Ctrl-S.
• Support for range selection was added (bound to Ctrl-V by default). In addition, sorting, reversing and shuffling items in playlist now works on ranges.
• Support for selecting found items was added (bound to Ctrl-_ by default).
• Tracks in media library are now properly sorted for track numbers greater than 99.
• Value of visualizer_sync_interval is now restricted to be greater than 9.
• Output of the visualizer now scales automatically as long as visualizer_sample_multiplier is set to 1.
• Command line switch that prints current song to the standard output is available once again.
• Defined action chains are now shown in help screen.
• Action chains for selecting an item and scrolling up/down are now bound to Shift-Up and Shift-Down respectively.

ncmpcpp-0.6.7 (2015-09-12)

• Fetching artist info from last.fm was fixed.

ncmpcpp-0.6.6 (2015-09-07)

• A typo in the example configuration file was fixed.
• Fetching lyrics from lyricwiki.com was fixed.

ncmpcpp-0.6.5 (2015-07-05)

• Description of mouse wheel usage on volume is now correct.
• Configure script now fails if either readline or pthread specific headers are not present.
• Searching in text fields now respects regular expression configuration.
• When numbering tracks in tag editor all the other track tags are discarded.
• Xiph tag DESCRIPTION is now rewritten as COMMENT when updating tags.
• Possible access of already freed memory when downloading artist info is fixed.
• Name of an item is now displayed correctly if present.
• Assertion failure when resizing terminal window with no active MPD connection is fixed.
• Lyrics fetchers were updated to work with sites that changed their HTML structure.

ncmpcpp-0.6.4 (2015-05-02)

• Fix title of a pop-up which shows during adding selected items to the current playlist.
• Correctly deal with leading separator while parsing filenames in tag editor.
• Fix initial incorrect window size that was occuring in some cases.
• Unknown and invalid configuration options can now be ignored using command line option ignore-config-errors.

ncmpcpp-0.6.3 (2015-03-02)

• Fix floating point exception when adding a specific number of random items.
• Passwords are no longer added to the input history.
• It is now possible to put more than one specific flag consecutively in formats.
• Bash completion file was removed as it no longer works.
• Description of available configuration options in man page was updated.

ncmpcpp-0.6.2 (2014-12-13)

• Delete key now aditionally binds by default to action that deletes files in browser.
• Fix incremental seeking so that it doesn't reset after 30 seconds.

ncmpcpp-0.6.1 (2014-11-06)

• Comment tag is now properly written to mp3 files.
• Only ID3v2.4 tags are now saved to mp3 files.
• Mouse scrolling with newer ncurses API now works properly.
• Adding songs from an album in media library now works properly with fetch delay.
• Adding songs from a playlist in playlist editor now works properly with fetch delay.
• Trying to fetch lyrics from an empty list doesn't crash the application anymore.

ncmpcpp-0.6 (2014-10-25)

• Feature locate song no more has a chance to crash the program.
• Following lyrics of current song now works properly with consume mode active.
• Deletion of empty playlists in playlist editor now works properly.
• Toggling consume mode with crossfade mode active displays proper info.
• Support for regular expressions works properly now.

ncmpcpp-0.6_beta5 (2014-10-04)

• Corrupted tags no longer cause assertion failures.
• MPD connection attempts are now made at most once per second.
• Deletion of playlists in both browser and playlist editor is now properly handled.
• Various actions no longer cause the program to crash when invoked with empty playlist.

ncmpcpp-0.6_beta4 (2014-09-19)

• Jumping to current song in playlist doesn't trigger assertion failures anymore.
• Readline's completion feature is now properly disabled.

ncmpcpp-0.6_beta3 (2014-09-14)

• Handling of server events has been improved.
• Readline now ignores escape key.
• Cropping a playlist now works only if its length is bigger than 1.
• Browser and media library sorting now works properly with filtering.
• Compilation with boost-1.56 has been fixed.
• Configuration option visualizer_type now accepts "spectrum" value.
• Configuration option autocenter_mode is now properly read.
• Configuration option visualizer_sample_multiplier now accepts all positive numbers.
• Documentation was updated to reflect the changes.
• Mouse event handling in media library now works properly.
• ncmpcpp now works properly with password protected server.
• Data fetching delay in media library and playlist editor is now optional.

ncmpcpp-0.6_beta2 (2014-09-03)

• Fixed the issue that prevented MPD flags toggling from working properly.
• Song change event is now properly handled after song ends with consume flag active.
• ncmpcpp now operates in raw terminal mode and ignores SIGINT.
• Separators between columns in media library, playlist editor and tag editor are now reliably colored.
• Build failures due to the missing include are now fixed.
• Playlist cropping now works as expected if no item is selected.

ncmpcpp-0.6_beta1 (2014-09-03)

• Support for polling communication mode has been removed. Additionally, MPD version >= 0.16 is required.
• Keybinding system has been redesigned: "keys" file is now deprecated; "bindings" file is used instead. It has support for many features, including binding to non-ascii characters and macros.
• Support for readline library was added.
• Browser has support for custom sort format.
• Playlist has support for MPD priorities.
• Media library can be sorted by modification time.
• Visualizer's frequency spectrum was adjusted to look more pleasant.
• Broken compatibility of various actions with filtered lists has been corrected.
• Tons of other small changes and improvements were made.

ncmpcpp-0.5.10 (2012-04-01)

• fix compilation with gcc 4.7
• fix building without curl support

ncmpcpp-0.5.9 (2012-03-17)

• new feature: support for fetching lyrics for currently playing song in background
• new feature: support for stereo visualization
• new feature: support for merging screens together
• playlist editor: add support for columns display mode
• settings: provide a way to use alternative location for configuration file
• settings: make characters used in visualizer customizable
• lyrics fetcher: add support for lololyrics.com
• various bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.5.8 (2011-10-11)

• lyrics fetcher: add support for justsomelyrics.com
• add command line switch -s/--screen for switching screen at startup
• add proper support for asx/cue/m3u/pls/xspf playlists
• bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.5.7 (2011-04-21)

• convert input path to utf8 before calling add command
• extras: add program that copies Artist to AlbumArtist for mp3/ogg/flac files
• lyrics fetcher: add support for lyricsvip.com
• lyrics fetcher: skip lyricwiki if there's licence restriction on lyrics
• tag editor: do not convert filenames back to utf8 while reading files using taglib
• search engine: fix error occuring while trying to select first album in results

ncmpcpp-0.5.6 (2011-01-02)

• settings: make displaying empty tag entry optional
• bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.5.5 (2010-08-04)

• new feature: select album around cursor
• new feature: replay function
• fixed feature: display separators between albums
• playlist: support for adding last.fm streams
• browser: support for operations on m3u playlists not created by MPD
• browser: support for deleting group of selected items
• media library: show songs with primary tag unspecified
• lyrics: new fetching system
• lyrics: support for storing lyrics in song's directory
• artist info: support for preffered language
• settings: support for custom visualization color
• settings: support for empty part of progressbar in progressbar_look
• settings: new config option: titles_visibility
• song format: support for limiting maximal length of a tag
• a lot of minor fixes

ncmpcpp-0.5.4 (2010-06-03)

• new feature: toggle bitrate visibility at runtime
• new feature: locate song in tag editor
• new feature: separators between albums in playlist
• new feature: customizable columns' names
• new feature: support for multiple tag types in one column
• media library: support for "All tracks" option in middlle column
• playlist: shorten units' names displayed in statusbar
• browser: critical bugfix in feature "remove directory physically from hdd"
• a few other bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.5.3 (2010-04-04)

• new feature: new movement keys: {Up,Down}{Album,Artist}
• new feature: make displaying volume level in statusbar optional
• new feature: jump from browser to playlist editor
• bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.5.2 (2010-02-26)

• bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.5.1 (2010-02-15)

• new feature: customizable startup screen
• new feature: locate song in media library
• new feature: support for built-in mpd searching in search engine
• new feature: support for adding random artists/albums to playlist
• new feature: support for album artist tag
• new feature: support for switching between user-defined sequence of screens
• new feature: discard column colors if item is selected (optional)
• new feature: support for adding tracks to playlist after highlighted item
• make displaying dates of albums in media library optional
• several bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.5 (2009-12-31)

• bash completion support
• libmpdclient2 support
• "idle" command support
• new screen: mpd server info
• new feature: sort songs in browser by mtime
• new feature: lyrics "refreshing"
• new feature: toggle replay gain mode
• new feature: support for centered cursor
• new feature: add selected items to playlist at given position
• playlist: support for range sort/reverse
• tag editor: support for numerating tracks using xx/xx format
• a lot of minor fixes

ncmpcpp-0.4.1 (2009-10-03)

• support for writing performer, composer and disc tags into ogg and flac files
• support for custom prefix/suffix of now playing song
• support for system charset encoding autodetection
• support for underlined text
• optimizations and bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.4 (2009-09-09)

• new screen: music visualizer with sound wave/frequency spectrum modes
• new feature: alternative user interface
• new feature: command line switch for displaying now playing song
• new feature: support for fixed size and/or right aligned columns
• new feature: display bitrate of current song in statusbar (optional)
• new feature: display remaining time of current song instead of elapsed (optional)
• new feature: jump to now playing song at start (enabled by default)
• new feature: additional attributes for columns
• song format: support for nested braces
• support for colors in song_status_format
• customizable progressbar look
• mouse support for additional windows
• optional user prompting before clearing main playlist
• track and year tag are not limited to numbers anymore if mp3 files are edited
• marker for full filename (F) has been replaced with directory (D)
• a lot of other minor improvements and bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.3.5 (2009-06-24)

• new feature: custom command execution on song change
• new feature: allow for physical files and directories deletion
• new feature: add local directories recursively
• new feature: add random songs to playlist
• new feature: mouse support
• new screen: outputs
• text scrolling in header was made optional
• some bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.3.4 (2009-05-19)

• new feature: search in help, lyrics and info screen
• new feature: two columns view in media library
• new feature: input box history
• make displaying hidden files in local browser optional
• bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.3.3 (2009-04-02)

• new feature: cyclic scrolling
• support for single mode (requires >=mpd-0.15_alpha*)
• support for consume mode (requires >=mpd-0.15_alpha*)
• support for pdcurses library
• support for WIN32
• improvements and bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.3.2 (2009-03-17)

• new feature: locate currently playing song in browser
• new feature: stop playing after current song
• new feature: move item(s) in playlist to actual cursor's position
• new feature: reverse playlist's order
• support for external console editor
• support for multiple composer, performer and disc tags
• support for basic and extended regular expressions
• make blocking search constraints after succesful searching optional
• improved searching in screens
• minor improvements and bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.3.1 (2009-02-23)

• support for columns in browser and search engine
• support for lyricsplugin database
• support for any tag in search engine
• support for ignoring leading "the" word while sorting (optional)
• new feature: apply filter to screen (Ctrl-F by default)
• new feature: playlist sorting (Ctrl-V by default)
• new feature: open lyrics in external editor
• other minor improvements and bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.3 (2009-01-22)

• general core rewrite
• new screen - clock
• support for asian wide characters
• support for non-utf8 encodings
• a lot of bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.2.5 (2008-12-05)

• support for unix domain sockets
• support for adding to playlist files outside mpd music directory (requires mpd >= 0.14_alpha*)
• support for browsing local directories tree (requires mpd >= 0.14_alpha*)
• support for searching in current playlist
• many bugfixes

ncmpcpp-0.2.4 (2008-10-12)

• fixed bug with not null terminated strings on mac os x
• support for renaming files in tiny tag editor
• support for editing composer, performer and disc tag in mp3 files
• support for user defined base seek time
• support for user defined tag type in left column of media library
• support for user defined display format in album column of media library
• support for basic mpc commands and command line arguments
• adding items to playlist can be done like in ncmpc
• fetching lyrics and artist's info doesn't lock ncmpcpp anymore
• changed place of storing config files
• list of recently used patterns in tag editor is now remembered

ncmpcpp-0.2.3 (2008-09-20)

• new screen - complex tag editor (with albums/directories view)
• brand new song info screen (old one removed)
• support for renaming files and directories
• support for reading tags from filename
• support for editing artist and album in media library
• support for playlist renaming
• support for following lyrics of now playing song
• support for fetching artist's info from last.fm
• fixed compilation for Mac OS X and *BSD
• fixed compilation for older gcc versions
• extended configuration (e.g. all colors can be user-defined)
• repeat one song mode works with random mode now
• incremental seeking (old behaviour is still available through config)
• a bunch of fixes and improvements

ncmpcpp-0.2.2 (2008-09-05)

• new screen - playlist editor
• new playlist view - columns
• playlist view switcher added (key 'p' by default)
• find function modes added (wrapped/normal, switch is 'w' by default)
• albums in media library sorted by year (and it's also displayed)
• multiple items selection support and related functions added
• playlists management support
• new function - "go to dir containing selected song" (key 'G' by default)
• moving items improved
• lots of minor fixes

ncmpcpp-0.2.1 (2008-08-27)

• support for composer, performer and disc tag
• customizable keybindings
• "add" option added
• example config files are installed automatically now
• "repeat one song" mode added (works only if ncmpcpp is running)
• minor fixes, improvements etc.

ncmpcpp-0.2 (2008-08-20)

• libmpd dependency dropped
• pkgconfig is not needed anymore
• ncmpcpp now shows more info if it cannot connect to mpd
• proper handling for mpd password added
• if ncmpcpp lose connection to mpd it'll try to reconnect
• playlist status added
• new screen - lyrics
• switching between playlist and browser with tab key added
• alternate movement keys added (j and k keys)
• auto center mode added
• new option - crossfade can be set to any value now (X key)
• new option - going to parent directory in browser using backspace key
• issue with backspace key fixed
• sorting items in browser is case insensitive now
• many fixes and improvements

ncmpcpp-0.1.2 (2008-08-12)

• parts of interface are hideable now
• new screen - media library
• new option - crop (it removes all songs from playlist except the playing one)
• many fixes and optimizations

ncmpcpp-0.1.1 (2008-08-07)

• add example configuration file
• configure.in now works as expected
• taglib dependency is optional now
• more customizable options