cmus 2.4.0

Greetings!

I'm pleased to announce cmus 2.4.0 "Easter egg", the long-awaited feature
release of cmus. Since 2.3.0 (more than a year ago!) tons of enhancements have
been made, both to cmus' internals, and to the user-visible parts.

Here is a short summary of the new stuff you will find in 2.4.0:

- Mutt-like short filters

    E.g. "~a beatles (!~y1960-1965 | ~d>600)". This nicely complements
    traditional cmus filters, especially with

- Live filtering

    Live filtering is immensely useful and addictive feature, especially if you
    have a huge music library. Press 'L' and start typing, and you'll understand
    what I mean. To reset the live filter, type 'L<Enter>'. Also, do know that
    you can use short filter expressions for live filtering, too!

- Resume support

    To enable resume support, simply add "set resume=true" to your ~/.cmus/rc.
    After that, cmus will resume the playback at startup (or resume the paused
    state, if you quit cmus while track was paused), as well as restore the
    state of live filter etc. Most likely than not, you'll find this very
    useful!

- Smarter string handling

    Cmus has solid Unicode support for a while now; however, this release
    adds locale-aware string ordering, and the ability to ignore diacritical
    marks (accents) while searching/live filtering/etc.: e.g. "bjork" will
    match "Björk", which can be very handy.

- Long format options, including ones for bitrate/codec

    From now on, format strings can contain more readable placeholders like
    %{artist}, including new (and frequently requested) %{bitrate} and %{codec}.

- HTTP proxy support for streams via http_proxy environment variable

- Less CPU wakeups during playback

    This makes cmus more eco-friendly, because of reduced power consumption.
    It also makes notebook batteries last a bit longer.

- New RoarAudio output plugin

- Support for big-endian systems, lots of different audio sample formats,
  almost any C compiler and unix-like OS out there

Also, cmus' website (http://cmus.sourceforge.net) now has a wiki:
http://cmus.sourceforge.net/wiki. Make sure to check it out (and update, if it
is missing something).

So, grab the source tarball here:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmus/files/cmus-v2.4.0.tar.bz2/download

Or get cmus via git:

    $ git clone git://gitorious.org/cmus/cmus.git

Installation is a classical "./configure && make && sudo make install", as
always.

Or, chances are, you'll find a packaged version of cmus 2.4.0 in the official
repository of your favorite distribution. If not, please ask the maintainer to
update the package!

I'd like to thank everyone, who has contributed to this release by writing
patches, participating in cmus-devel discussions, testing and packaging cmus.
Especially I'd like to mention Johannes Weißl, who has written the code for
most of the awesome new features.

Hope you'll enjoy this release!

        Gregory


P.S. And happy Easter, if you are celebrating it!



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Git shortlog:


Adam Hoka (2):
      Cast time_t to long long and use %lld so it works on platforms where time_t is 64bit.
      isspace needs its argument casted to int.

Evan (1):
      USE_FALLBACK_IP config option to enable catch-all input plugin

Ganael Laplanche (1):
      configure: patched detection for libmpcdec (FreeBSD)

Gregory Petrosyan (29):
      Merge branch 'maint'
      output.c: simplify trivial forwarding functions
      Merge branch 'jl/nowakeups'
      Merge branch 'jw/remote'
      Merge branch 'jw/search-wrap'
      Merge commit 'jasonwoof/search-aa'
      Update TODO
      Merge branch 'maint'
      Merge branch 'maint'
      http: add 'uri' field to struct http_uri
      http: support HTTP proxies via $http_proxy
      http: add Basic proxy authorization support
      Merge branch 'xc/valgrind'
      track.c: remove unused reshuffle() function
      track.c: remove misleading comment
      cache: fix cache invalidation bug caused by commit 594aa
      Merge branch 'rbtree2'
      Merge branch 'maint'
      pulse: don't set useless stream properties
      Merge branch 'ffmpeg-fallback'
      Merge branch 'maint'
      tree: better album date calculation
      tree: properly update artist/album position when changing their sort attributes
      roar: silence 'defined but not used' compiler warning
      Make u_casefold_char() work properly on OS X and Windows
      id3: fix id3_skiplen() for UTF-16 and UTF-16BE
      id3: fix heavily broken comments parsing
      cmus 2.4.0-rc0
      cmus 2.4.0

Jan-Philipp Litza (1):
      Use pthread_cond_* while waiting for beginning of playback

Jason Woofenden (3):
      Make search wrap when reaching the end/beginning
      Make albumartist tag searchable
      add :w and :wq aliases

Johannes Weißl (153):
      server: write info_msg() and error_msg() to client
      save: add -q option for saving queue
      save: add -L flag, which outputs filtered library
      save: filename "-" outputs to stdout
      server: move escape() from server.c to misc.c
      save: add -e option for extended output
      doc: save -e -L -q, cmus-remote examples
      configure: add -Wformat-security to gcc options
      speedup: code reordering in comments.c
      speedup: use rbtree for sorted and shuffle list
      rbtree: rename loop defines
      fix segfault when adding to queue
      fix order of sorted view (has been reversed)
      add Mutt-like filter shortcuts
      utils: add N_ELEMENTS macro
      utf8_encode: rename to convert.[ch], generalize
      strip unneeded extern keyword
      faster version of u_strlen()
      make using_utf8 and charset global
      introduce collation comparison
      do not mind diacritical marks (accents) when searching / filtering
      gen_decomp.py: expand special mapping
      improve string handling for short filter expressions
      bugfix: recognize boolean keys in short filters
      ffmpeg: fix compiler warning
      ffmpeg: use new metadata API
      bugfix: do_u_strncase_equal() ignores last character
      track_info.c: cosmetic change
      track_info_cmp(): compare filename with strcoll() instead of strcasecmp()
      ui_curses.c: remove code duplication
      bugfix: reintroduce safe u_strlen()
      convert filter and search expressions to UTF-8
      u_strcasestr_filename(): correctly handle non-utf8 cases
      fix gcc-4.6 warnings
      cmdline: add ctrl-w and friends
      tree: add artist_new() and album_new() functions
      use rbtree for the library tree view
      fix sorted view (again)
      editable: use rbtree for sorting
      fix: put tracks with blank artist on top in view 2
      speedup track info comparison
      track_info_cmp(): use collation keys
      tree: use collation keys for sort names
      compiler.h: make __builtin_expect depend on __GNUC__
      better offsetof() and container_of() macros
      scripts/checks.sh: fix function test
      config/checks.sh: detect -rdynamic flag
      only enable colors if use_default_colors() is there
      fix gcc compile warning on mipsel platforms
      uchar: faster (and more usable) version of u_get_char()
      portability fix: standard conform use of anonymous member
      fix: sidestep glibc anomaly when using non-gnu compilers
      silence tcc warning
      portability: wrap add_ti_cb callback in struct
      cosmetic change: replace xmalloc with xnew where possible
      portability: remove conditionals with omitted operands
      portability: replace zero-length arrays with flexible array members
      portability: include missing headers
      mp4: add com.apple.iTunes freeform tags
      mpc: fix replay gain calculation
      fix clang warning
      utils.sh: comment $CROSS variable
      checks.sh: better check for endianness
      configure: use pkg-config for flac detection
      expr.c: better recognition of short filter expressions
      add live filter command (:live-filter)
      add overlay status info for live filter
      remove item from TODO
      wav.c: add RIFF metadata support
      utils.h: use builtin byte swapping functions
      player.c: add support for 32bit softvol scaling
      flac.c: use swapping functions in utils.h
      oss.c: support sample size of 32bit
      wav.c: add extensible wave support
      wav.c: support 32bit wave files
      wav.c: support seeking for other than 2ch 16/8bit
      mad: only use xing.nr_frames when != 0
      speedup: do fast filtering if no filter is set
      ffmpeg.c: reset frame_size to AVCODEC_MAX_AUDIO_FRAME_SIZE in loop
      ffmpeg.c: correctly scale seeking position
      ffmpeg.c: add .mka extension
      fix build error on NetBSD (bswap16/32)
      cache: fix writing of tracks with more than 32 tags
      flac: fix segfault when playing corrupt flac files
      pulse: fix playback of multi-channel audio files
      pulse: fix deadlock
      roar: don't write warning messages to stderr
      output.c: better autodetect output plugin
      change order of output plugins
      tree.c: fix infinite loop when searching
      tree.c: collapse artists after continuing search
      plugins: handle missing dependencies more gracefully
      add backwards tab completion (s-tab)
      ffmpeg.c: correctly detect sample format
      player.c: support 24bit scaling
      format_print.h: avoid code duplication
      add long track format options
      enable display / sorting of replay gain values
      Doc: update sort keys / format strings
      support percentage for format width
      options.c: change default format_playlist
      add bitrate to format options / sort keys
      add codec to format options / sort keys
      add input plugin priorities and better fallback
      ffmpeg.c: add more file types
      input.c: fix frame_size check in BUG_ON
      oss: support multi channel audio
      oss: better oss_buffer_space()
      pcm: use native byte order
      vorbis: always use native byte order
      mikmod: fix playback on bigendian systems
      modplug: fix playback on bigendian systems
      ffmpeg: fix playback on bigendian systems
      make iconv dependency optional
      configure: better check when using app_config
      compiler.h: use __builtin_offsetof only for gcc version > 3
      ffmpeg: enable compilation for libavcodec < 51.65
      id3: better date parsing
      player.c: replay gain scaling works without peak
      mad: enable LAME replay gain info
      tree: do not use artistsort for compilations
      tree: fix smart artist sort name behaviour
      tree: fix sorting of albums
      fix segfault when changing sort keys while adding tracks
      fix live filtering for integer expressions
      lib.c: do not consider live filter when doing lib_for_each()
      oss.c: support sample size of 24bit
      expr.c: add bitrate and codec to filter expressions
      Doc: update sort keys / format strings
      expr.c: fix filtering for unset date
      mikmod: fix mik_read_comments()
      mikmod: return codec name
      modplug: return codec names
      modplug: remove compressed types
      add option to resume playback on startup
      resume: also restore current live-filter
      resume: save queue to $CMUS_HOME/queue.pl
      add :shell command
      spawn status_display_program in the background
      ui_curses.c: cleanup usage of player_info
      cmdline: change filename delimiter to just '/'
      track_info_cmp: fix comparison of doubles
      ui_curses.c: fix severe display errors if iconv fails
      allow overriding charset with CMUS_CHARSET environment variable
      Doc: add ENVIRONMENT section
      fix warning if compiling with -Os
      vorbis: return with different error message
      load playlist before library on startup
      configure: fix detection of mp4.h
      configure: fix detection of mpc/mpcdec.h
      configure: better detection of avcodec.h
      pulse: set standard icon
      spawn.c: avoid zombie processes

Mikhail Gonchar (1):
      id3: fix UTF-16 handling

Philipp Schafft (1):
      Add RoarAudio output plugin

Xavier Chantry (6):
      gitignore : add backup files *~
      Fix a few pointer types warning
      history : fix invalid read and memory leak
      track_info : fix invalid read
      player : add new buffer_free on exit
      ffmpeg : fix memleak in ffmpeg_input_free

gt (1):
      Added example for %{bitrate} format string.