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netjuke 1.0b12 released

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1. You MUST run the installer to UPGRADE TO or INSTALL 1.0b12

+ See netjuke/docs/UPGRADING.txt or INSTALL.txt for details

+ Upgrade process is required for existing users as to upgrade
the netjuke database backend to 1.0b12, which brings quite a
few database-level changes.

This will be done automatically and will not affect your
existing data in any way.

+ FOR INCREASED SECURITY, remove the netjuke/installer/ directory
once you are up and running. You won't need it any longer, and
the module is fully independent.

2. Added greatly improved recursive file finder upgraded by Steve,
Marc-Oliver, Alexander and me (hourray for team development! :o).

3. The "display track count" feature has been greatly improved to
not use tremendous system resources anymore, thanks to
modifications inspired by a caching patch submited by
Marc-Oliver & Alexander.

Since the feature was only optional because of the temporary way
it was enabled, this is not the case any longer, and this should
not decrease performance too much (if at all, on recent systems).

The track counts are now diplayed at all time in the "Browse"
page, as well as in the alphabetical listings. Incidentally,
the 'N/A' value will now only show up if there are tracks
actually using the value.

4. Added "play" button in the playlist edit window to start playing
all the tracks at once.

This isn't available in the search.php yet, as there could be way
too many tracks in a listing for the feature to be usable, but
we'll look for a realistic way to make it happen in future versions.

5. Changed database field that holds the track's location/path from
"varchar(255)" to "text" to avoid problems with tracks with
extremely long filenames or paths.

The same modification has been done to all the columns that hold
image paths for tracks, artists, (etc) to avoid similar problems.

6. Now incrementing and displaying (admin) a login count value for
each users.

7. Modified play.php to only output the extra M3U-related song info
when accessed from windows, to fix a bug that stopped Galeon and
Konqueror under Linux from effectively launching the playback.

8. Modified play.php to only let users with an active session play
the audio files when the "Protect Media" feature is turned on.

This way, we make sure that users need to visit the site before
they can start playing audio. It makes sure than if you cancel
someone's access, they cannot actually keep on playing music
though playlists they had saved before, or are being given by
other active users.

Ogg users: you still cannot use the "Protect Media" option...
The files are found, start buffering, but never actually start
playing. There are no errors in any logs that can help with
troubleshooting this issue. Open challenge, everyone...

9. Upgraded the bundled getid3.php library to 1.4b2, which fixes
some genre lookup issues, and will also enable us to start
coding some write-back functions for id3 tags in FUTURE releases.

I/we haven't started w/ the write-back stuff yet because of the
beta status of the library, as we do not want to risk corrupting
your audio files. Ultimately, I'd like to also see write-back
functions for ogg before we can add such features to the
official release.

10. Started importing the comment tag from mp3s to the db. The
comment tag is not displayed anywhere yet, but will be soon.

11. Misc. code tweaks and bug fixes in the netjuke and the
installer/upgrader.

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Posted by Stephane Daury 2002-03-24

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