Pi MusicBox History
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MusicBox 0.5.1 (7 december 2014) contains the following improvements:
- Monitoring of crashed services enhanced
- Small bugfix in html
MusicBox 0.5.1 RC2 (24 november 2014) contains the following improvements:
- No more slow loading of Spotify playlists
- Added audioaddict extension
- Other bugfixes
MusicBox 0.5.1 RC (7 november 2014) contains the following improvements:
- Shairport-sync instead of Shairport. AirPlay audio now syncs to e.g. a video
- Webclient enhancements
- Alsamixer extension included for hardware mixers (no gui, only in ini file)
- Removed fastclick to prevent accidental clicks in the webinterface
- Updated mopidy extensions
- Bugfixes
MusicBox 0.5.1 beta (13 october 2014) contains the following improvements:
- Replaced gmediarender with upmpdcli for better and more stable upnp streaming support.
- Less stuttering of Spotify at the start of a track
- Bugfixes for webclient interface (popups work better now)
- Soundcard detection fixed
- SSH/Dropbear enhancements.
- Bugfixes
MusicBox 0.5.1 alpha2 (6 october 2014) contains the following improvements:
- +Brand new Google Music, including albums, browse, search
- +Support for more i2s audiocards
- +More responsive mopidy, version 0.19.4
- +Nicer webclient with new homescreen, better coverart
- +Play streams from youtube, spotify, soundcloud, radio by pasting an url
- +Search music per service
- +Youtube integration
- +SoundCloud search fixed
MusicBox 0.5 (8 july 2014) contains the following improvements (MD5 dacf92fb88b2cb9df067798cfd3ea9c0):
- +Added missing webclient fonts
- +Playing files from the network enhanced
- +Disabled Samba printing
- +Small changes, bugfixes
- -HifiBerry Digi support is not complete :( See https://github.com/woutervanwijk/Pi-MusicBox/issues/100
MusicBox 0.5 beta2 (18 june 2014):
- +Google Music works again!
- +Fixed bugs in webinterface
- +Networking bug fixed
- +Icons for media sources in webinterface
- +Search fixed
- +Added codecs for internetradio (gstreamer-plugins bad and ugly)
- +Hifiberry Digi supported
- +More wifi-usb sticks supported, I hope
- -Bigger package (because of gstreamer plugins)
MusicBox 0.5 beta1 (10 may 2014):
- Best release evah! Way less stuttering of sound!
- DLNA/UPNP streaming works out of the box (using gmediarender-resurect)
- Fixed settings page, webclient, search bugs
- Added Internet Archive and Soma FM support
- Better Wifi. Will autoconnect to an open network if found
- Reverted back to old MusicBox system, new kernel (with better USB support). And thanks to that:
- Smaller package, fits on a 1GB SD Card again
- Monitoring of crashed daemons Shairport, Mopidy, Gmediarender
- Detection of crashed Pi (watchdog)
- Latest kernel (with a lot of fixes for USB)
- Whoosh backend for local files (should be faster)
- Updated Podcast
- - Gmusic does not work reliable (yet)
- - Upnp/Airplay/Mopidy cannot play at the same time. Don't do that, it can crash the services and this could need a reboot!
Earlier versions of MusicBox 0.5 contained the following improvements:
- Much improved performance and stability of Mopidy
- New Settings page for easily selecting most settings of MusicBox!!
- Webclient updated to (way) better support browsing
- Podcast working, including browsing podcasts from iTunes, gpodder
- UPNP/DLNA Streaming using gmediarender-resurrect
- Seperate webserver (lighttpd) on startup
- Jukebox functionality included with aternative webclient JukePi. Great for the office!
- Also included alternative webclient Moped
- TuneIn, Dirble, Podcasts enabled by default
- - Firewall disabled for now
- Automatically play a stream at startup
- Webclient: Easier to add radiostations from Dirble/TuneIn browsing to the favorites in the radio section
- motd ascii art
- Filecheck added for fat partition
- Mopidy 0.18.x, with lots of enhancements
- Browsing support for local media files, Spotify, Dirble, etc
- Dirble, Subsonic, Internet Archive Sound, TuneIn Radio support
- Better webradio (Mopidy can read m3u and asx files now!)
- Quick hack to easily edit default radio stations in webinterface (use radiostations.js)
- Better USB Sound, better i2s
- Settings.ini and mopidy.conf merged to one file, so you can configure Mopidy specific settings yourself easily
- Mopidy runs as a service
- Logging on startup (not totally there yet)
- Better networking
- Bugfixes
MusicBox 0.4.3 (8 january 2014, ZIP MD5: 314303d57ec4691556763e350aa3a87e )
- USB disks mounted at boot and scanned for music
- Better recognition of USB Dacs (Simon)
- Better scrolling on iOS
- Start SSH before filescan
- Slightly smaller image file (did not fit on all cards)
MusicBox 0.4.2.1 (31 december 2013, ZIP MD5: 1d641b0a1ac0ac9d406aab6b91530092 ):
- Bugfixes for Spotify bitrate and default volume
- Again: No hamsters were harmed during the production
MusicBox 0.4.2 (30 december 2013, ZIP MD5: 628139ef3762b4ac947f1d054e94c1bc ):
- Best sounding Pi MusicBox ever! No hiccups, no unwanted noises, just music!
- Shutdown/Reboot from interface
- Font-icons for shuffle/repeat in interface
- Newer Kernel: 3.10.24+ (i2s included)
- Disabled power management for wireless dongles
- Better hdmi support (hotplug, force open)
- Split startup script into multiple files for better management
- Initial i2s support by Simon de Bakker/HifiBerry
- Set default volume in config file (Simon again)
- Log file viewable via webinterface ( http://musicbox.local/log )
- Initial work to support a settings page in the webinterface (not working yet)
- No hamsters were harmed during the production
MusicBox 0.4.1 (21 december 2013, ZIP MD5: 8aacbf1d37bafc29182e497bbb34a890 ):
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Bugfix for SoundCloud in webinterface
- Bugfix for distorted sound on some webradiostations
MusicBox 0.4 (15 december 2013, ZIP MD5: c533b3daca86da80a1084c7b0704fa3a ):
- New, much improved webinterface
- Use multiple Pi's on the same network (Multiroom Audio)
- Webradio support
- SoundCloud support (beta!)
- Google Music support (alpha!)
- More stable
- Windows workgroup name configuration
- Other big updates to web client (faster, cleaner, more stable, more options)
- Big updates to Mopidy music server
- Optimizations to have less services running, less logging, less writes to SD-Card, less unwanted noises
- Better security trough a simple firewall
- Mopidy runs as a normal user
- SSH service disabled by default
- Automatically change passwords of musicbox and root users
MusicBox 0.3:
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All configuration is done in one ini-file
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Much smaller download
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HDMI output enabled
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Autodetection of HDMI, USB, analog at start (you can override this in the ini-file)
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LastFM scrobbling enabled
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Webinterface updated (speedier)
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Settings editable with Windows Notepad
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Works on 1GB SD-Card
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Initial support for playback of local mp3 files on the SD-Card and putting them there via Windows networking (see instructions)
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Initial support for playback of mp3 files on a Windows Network share (see instructions)
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Automatic resizing to the size of the SD-card (use at your own risk...)
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v0.2.2: Windows finds the musicbox.local address by itself now (samba).
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v0.2.1: Removed ugly sounds on analog port when changing tracks (pulseaudio). An USB-soundcard is still recommended.
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v0.2: New, much nicer web-interface (Jquery Mobile).
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v0.2: Based on Raspbian (Moebius) for better performance and stability
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