Version 1.8.1

Summary

Added a command line where you can add songs to the playlist.

Changelog

Fixed

• Fixed some issues with the autocomplete and playlist population in the command line (including #32).

Changed

• The help menu is now scrollable with the configured scroll keys and looks a little nicer.

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Version 1.8.0

Summary

Added a command line where you can add songs to the playlist.

Changelog

Added

• Added new keybind command_line which launches the command line
• Added config options command_sep_color and command_hierarchy_color to set command line colors
• Added config options command_sep and command_char to customize the look of the command line.

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The command line

The command line can be used to add songs to the current playlist. To launch it, press the command_line button (that's : by default). The command line supports some tab completion but you cannot move the caret left or right (yet).

The format is as follows:

[hierarchy] [tag1/tag2/tag3/...tagN]

• You do not have to populate all the tags. if you type, for example, artist Phoebe Bridgers/ and hit enter, all of Phoebe's music in your library will be added to the playlist.

• NOTE You do not type the seperator! It is added automatically. Just use a space!

The hierarchy controls the order of the tags and what each tag represents. Currently there are 4 available hierarchies with plans to add user configurable ones in the future.

Hierarchies

Hierarchy	Tag format
album	album/song
artist	artist/song
song	song
aa	artist/album/song

Command line keys

Key	Action
Escape	Exit command line
Enter	Attempt to add the current tags to the playlist

Version 1.7.3

Summary

Miniplayer now supports embedded album art again and users can use their config directory set in XDG_CONFIG_HOME instead of the hardcoded ~/.config

Changelog

Changed

• Album art fetching now goes by the following steps (Thanks to @aaw3 with #29 honorable mention to @an-prata):
  1. Check if the current song has embedded art and use that.
  2. Check if there is a cover image file present in the songs folder and use that.
  3. Draw and use the default album art.
• Miniplayer now checks if the XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory exists and will use that for config (Thanks to @tye-singwa with #25 )

Fixed

• Minor performance improvements

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Version 1.7.1

Summary

Fixed an issue relating to the setup configuration causing an error for users on newer versions of setuptools. (#24)

Version 1.7.0

Summary

Switched from using ffmpeg to fetch album art to using MPD's native method

Changelog

Removed

• The http_base_url, http_cover_filenames and music_directory config options have been removed since they are no longer needed to fetch album art.
• ffmpeg is no longer a dependancy.

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Version 1.6.1

Summary

Added some new keybinds and some playlist management options.

Changelog

Added

• The delete and backspace keys can now be bound.
• You can now use shift as a modifier for some keybindings (alpha keys and arrow keys). Just capitalise the keybinding (shift + p becomes P and shift + left becomes Left).
• Added shuffle and repeat commands.
• Added move_up and move_down commands to move songs around in your playlist.
• Added a delete command to remove songs from your playlist.

Changed

• Config keys are now case-sensitive.

Fixed

• Songs with multiple artists are now displayed correctly thanks to @s-walrus and their PR #20

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Version 1.5.1

Summary

The auto color algorithm would sometimes pick colors that were not legible on dark backgrounds.

Changelog

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the auto color algorithm would sometimes pick illegible colors.

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Version 1.5.0

Summary

Added a bunch of theming options, including options to change the progress bar, colors and to dynamically pick colors from the album art.

Changelog

Added

• A new config section theme.
• New config options theme/accent_color, theme/bar_color and theme/time_color to change the playlist, progressbar and timestamp colors respectively
• New config options theme/bar_body and theme/bar_head allow the user to change the look of the progress bar
• The color option auto will automatically style that element based on the current album art!

Changed

• The progress bar has a new look

Fixed

• There was an unnecessary additional error message when bugs would arise. This has been removed.

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Version 1.4.0

Summary

Merged PR #17 which adds functionality to fetch album art from files hosted on a HTTP server.

Changelog

Added

• A new config section art.
• A new config option art/http_base_url for the base URL of the webserver that serves your album art, if you are using one.
• A new config option art/http_cover_filenames which holds a list of filenames that will be fetched when using a http server to serve album art.

Changed

• Moved the music_directory and image_method config options to the new art config section.

Deprecated

• The music_directory and image_method config options under the player section in the config file have been deprecated and will be removed in the future.

Version 1.3.2

Summary

Made the player more responsive to keyboard controls.

Changelog

Fixed

• The player no longer crashes on launch when there isn't a config file present (as per #13).
• The player now redraws the progress bar if a song is restarted with the select command.