ncspot/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Fixed

• Playlist retrieval crashing when list contains podcast episodes
• Crash when shifting a song by an amount greater than the queue's length

1.3.1

Fixed

• Bug preventing any type of playback due to spotify API changes.
• Bug preventing retrieval of new song metadata from spotify.

1.3.0

Added

• Automatically find free port for OAuth2 login flow

Fixed

• Skip unplayable tracks
• Queue UI correctly plays a track when clicking on an already selected item
• Swap foreground and background colors for command line input
• Do not crash due to unavailable tracks in queue
• Do not fail when receiving playables of unknown types

1.2.2

Added

• %artist formatting option to only show single artist name
• Build release for aarch64 on Linux

Removed

• Support for basic password managers as OAuth2 is now the only supported authentication flow

Fixed

• Missing automatic man page generation for subcommands
• Bug causing forced password reset after using ncpsot

1.2.1 - 2024-10-31

Fixed

• Fix error in fetching of window size leading to crashes with cover feature

1.2.0 - 2024-10-15

Added

• Emit MPRIS Seeked signal

Fixed

• Switch to OAuth2 login mechanism
• Uses librespot 0.5.0 which containts many bugfixes, including:
  • Files are downloaded via CDN, which should fix playback of some podcasts
  • Better access point connection handling, hopefully resulting in faster startups
  • Fix frequent disconnections for some users

1.1.2 - 2024-07-16

Fixed

• Handling localized Spotify URLs
• Fetching playlists did not work for some users unless they set a playlist image

1.1.1 - 2024-05-10

Added

• ap_port configuration variable to choose what Spotify access point port to use
• Instructions for installation with snap

Fixed

• Not all requests respecting proxy settings as configured with environment variables
• MPRIS controls showing unknown artist/title on GNOME

1.1.0 - 2024-03-05

Added

• Instructions for installation with winget
• Automatic macOS arm64 builds to releases

Fixed

• Crash on Android (Termux) due to unknown user runtime directory
• Crash due to misconfigured or unavailable audio backend
• Volume changes from within ncspot not being reflected in the desktop notification
• Crash when ncspot tried to update a valid API token or the update failed
• Complete freeze when ncspot was running for a long time

1.0.0 - 2023-12-16

Added

• Special color for unavailable items
• Changelog with all the relevant user-facing changes to the project
• info command line subcommand to show platform specific information
• Git commit hash to version string to simplify determining the exact version

Changed

• Improve error messages generated by the command line
• Build with crossterm terminal backend by default
• Move UNIX IPC socket from the user's cache path to the user's runtime directory
• Improve messages relating to errors in the configuration file

Fixed

• Crash when internal commands can't be handled
• Documentation for the behavior of the Ctrl+S keybinding
• Multiple instances interfering with each other's MPRIS implementation
• An unlikely crash when the UNIX IPC socket is removed before ncspot is closed
• Guaranteed crash while quiting ncspot when using MPRIS
• MPRIS volume not being updated when given numbers smaller than 0 or larger than 1
• Play previous song command not working when first item in the queue was playing

0.13.4 - 2023-07-24

Added

• save current and add current commands for saving/adding the currently playing item
• Visual indicator for local tracks
• Error when deleting local tracks, as this is currently not possible

Changed

• Improve release profile to generate higher quality executables
• Ignore a leading 'The' when sorting artists
• Improve context menu loading time

Fixed

• Crash when deleting local tracks from a playlist

0.13.3 - 2023-06-11

Added

• Instructions for installation with cargo

Removed

• Instructions for installation with Snap as the package has been removed

Fixed

• Disappearing selection in lists when removing the last element
• Playback notification not being shown on some systems
• IPC socket being overriden when opening multiple instances
• IPC socket persisting after closing ncspot
• Crash when submitting a command with a multibyte unicode character as the prefix
• Tabs switching when command line is active and Left/Right is held down

0.13.2 - 2023-05-04

Added

• ncurses_backend feature flag to compile with ncurses support

Fixed

• Crash when running with MPRIS support while D-Bus isn't available
• Nerdfont icons not rendering correctly

0.13.1 - 2023-04-05

Added

• Vim-like page scrolling commands like Ctrl+d/Ctrl+u (not set to keybinding by default)
• Double click emulation to play items

Changed

• Split up the documentation to make it easier to find relevant information

Fixed

• Documentation about library tabs to include the new browse tab
• Incorrect D-Bus paths for the MPRIS implementation

0.13.0 - 2023-03-09

Added

• Example for how to use the UNIX domain socket IPC interface
• HighlightInactive option to the theme config
• reconnect command to reconnect to Spotify if network changes broke the current session
• Support for basic password managers
• Man page support
• Shell completion support

Changed

• Improve the way duration for items is displayed
• Remove pulseaudio dependency from the Debian package

Fixed

• Ctrl+z shortcut not working to put ncspot in the background
• Cover not being sent to the notification if not compiled with the cover feature

0.12.0 - 2022-12-29

Added

• Context menu action to save/remove the album of the selected track to the library
• Flatpak option to installation instructions
• IPC socket on UNIX platforms to control ncspot remotely

Fixed

• Crash information being dumped in the terminal. It is now automatically written to a file instead.
• Bug causing command prompt to appear after 'Connecting to Spotify..' startup message after quiting ncspot

0.11.2 - 2022-10-15

Added

• More context menu options to items to more closely match what's already offered for tracks
• POSIX signal handling to quit gracefully when not closed by the user (eg. system shutdown)

Changed

• Move playback controls out of their own submenu in the context menu

Fixed

• Crash when trying to play an empty, shuffled queue

0.11.1 - 2022-09-17

Changed

• Mouse scrolling now moves the view, not the focussed element
• Setting the track position now only works with a click, not by dragging the progress bar

Fixed

• Back button going back twice when clicked once with the mouse
• Back button clickable area not corresponding to the text on the button
• Bug while dragging the track progress bar
• Flickering when using the Termion TUI backend
• Albums with more than 50 songs not showing all the songs when viewed in the library
• Bug that could cause items to not load until the screen is filled on bigger screens