Minor releases

0.8.5

0.8.4 was skipped.

Release 0.8.5 has no code changes, it only exists because of changes in the package structure. The libupnpp library now exists in its own package.

0.8.3

This release mostly has modifications to the control side of the library.

upmpdcli now retries some song delete operations, it seems that mpd sometimes needs a little time to recover (?)

The control side now uses short timeouts and concurrency to download the description documents, which should solve the problem of devices disappearing when a very slow-responding one was present on the network.

Misc improvements to the control side of the lib to support upplay.

0.8.2

  • Add capability to set an icon to be displayed when selecting a renderer from a control point (see iconpath parameter in configuration file).

  • Control side: fix volume control which was not working on many renderers.

  • Misc changes to ease compilation on non-glibc platforms.

0.8.1

0.8.1 has many changes in the library code, but almost none of them affect the device side, they concern support for writing a control-point, which is mostly disjoint. The following changes are relevant to upmpdcli, and consistant with a minor release:

  • When used with an non-OpenHome Control Point, multiple calls to SetNextTransportURI no longer result in a lengthening of the MPD queue, and a wrong playlist.

  • The OpenHome Playlist metadata is now writen to a temporary file which is then renamed, to avoid partial saves of big lists.

  • The AVTransport service uses the OpenHome PlayList metadata cache for describing the current track data to a pure AVTransport Control Point. This is a very marginal improvement, and only makes sense in case the AVTransport CP is used for displaying the current track.

  • The OpenHome service was not completly switched off when the option was off sometimes resulting in spurious error messages (and nothing more).

  • Bad lock management inside the device code could result in a semi-deadlock in rare situations. Upmpdcli would then mostly be gone from the network, while still doing temporary appearances. This is linked to design issues in libupnp, which handles quite badly a situation where a subscribed Control Point responds very slowly or not at all to event connections.

Changes in upmpdcli 0.8.0

The main changes in release 0.8 deal with better handling of the OpenHome playlist, in addition to a number of small bug fixes, and efficiency improvements.

  • OpenHome playlist: metadata from tracks directly added to the MPD queue through an MPD client (such as, e.g. MPDroid, gmpc…) is now remembered by upmpdcli and will be displayed in the UPnP Control Point.

  • OpenHome playlist: the metadata for the playlist is now saved to disk so that it survives restarts (like the MPD playlist does). The previous situation was that the current playing queue was still active after a player restart, but no metadata (titles, artists, etc.) was displayed.

  • Actually advertise on the network when starting up and dying. An oversight in previous versions resulted in the fact that upmpdcli could only be discovered by a search (when the Control Point started), but, when upmpdcli was started, it would not appear in a running Control Point device list.

  • Do not advertise support for raw PCM strings (audio/Lxx), as we can’t actually play them. It is better to give accurate information to the Control Point, so that it can choose an alternate format such as Wav if it is available.