Upplay release notes

Browser: use cropping to conserve the icons aspec ratio.

Try using UPnP 1.1 unicast search to help reconnecting faster to the last used renderer.

Improved discovery code in libupnpp will hopefully decrease cases where upplay would not find a renderer at startup.

Fix issues with UPnP/AV device state initialization.

Add option to activate additional sanitizing of some characters in content directory output URLs.

Restore setting the window icon, this had been lost at some point.

Needs libupnpp 0.24.0, libnpupnp 5.1.1.

Avoid most ways that a stuck renderer could freeze the GUI

Windows: hopefully full support for keyboard traversal and screen readers.

Add menu for playlist mode settings (repeat, shuffle etc.). These were not accessible with a keyboard otherwise.

Fix playlist drag and drop: drag to first position is now possible.

Avoid phantom track appearing in the playlist when connecting to stopped upmpdcli in UPnP/AV mode

Misc improvements and fixes.

Fix bad change previous to 1.6.5 preventing search result display by creating an infinite loop in the display code.

Remove non-working Last.FM interface.

Fix display glitches in directory browser

Allow changing lower log parameters without restarting.

AVT playlist: fix crash when removing tracks.

Tabbed UI: add idle timer for returning to the "now playing" screen after a set time.

Small changes in preparation for qt6.

Fix playlist drag and drop, which had been broken by the touchscreen tap and hold gesture processing.

Compact mode: display the player, playlist and directory browser in three tabs inside the main window. This is accessible from the preferences, but needs an application restart. This mode may be useful on very small screens, typically associated with an SBC (e.g. Raspberry Pi). Upplay should be usable on a screen size of around 400x200.

Improved scaling: also scale button icons, hopefully better font size choices.

Implement MPRIS interface so that, e.g. the keyboard media key will work in the Gnome desktop.

Implement option to poll for volume changes, for renderers which generate no volume events.

Make the renderer selection dialog dynamic: it will react to a renderer appearing on the network.

When the connection with a renderer is lost, try to reconnect instead of asking the user what to do.

Improve device restart detection and renew subscriptions when needed.

Windows: switch to an MSVC+Webkit build. MinGW is fine, but I switched to MSVC for Recoll because it was needed for the Python extension module, and having a single build configuration makes my life easier.

Small fixes in colors in system dark theme.

Small fixes in Webengine version.

An 1.4.8 briefly existed. It had a wrong change in radio metadata handling.

Fix "close to tray" not working on Linux KDE.

Clean up exit when tray is not available.

Compilation warnings.

Create the GUI even if the library initialisation fails so that the network parameters can be changed.

Fix operation with gmediarender.

Misc small fixes.

Add prefs to control lower upnp lib logging.

libupnpp 0.17 compatibility code.

Direct buttons to switch between radio and playlist.

Windows: npupnp port.

Fix WM_CLASS for easier window management on X11.

Better scaling in the player area.

Improve column alignement in directory browser.

Use new npupnp library on Debian

Add album covers to the container lists.

Or present container lists as fields of album covers instead.

Support for restoring the browsing state from the last session when starting up (can be disabled through a preference).

Support for saving/restoring the seek position when switching between tracks (for, e.g. parallel comparison of two interpretations, or passage repeat).

Full Webengine support (still using Webkit by default).

Change in timing of UPnP/AV gapless (SetNextAVTransportURI) implementation, allowing gapless JPLAY.

Better scaling in the player area.

Fix directory browser to avoid the header overlaying the first content lines.

Add preference to select server search by default.

Support for the OpenHome Radio service (e.g. when controlling MediaPlayer).

Support for switching to an arbitrary Source on an OpenHome Renderer.

New tool for setting up and terminating multiple Linn Songcast Sender-Receiver connections.

Avoid applying custom directory sort to server playlists.

Improve playlist area popup menu.

Fixed Last.FM scrobbling

Directory browser: if a directory has a single subdirectory entry (and no items), automatically descend into it.

Fix exit under KDE

Inactivate UI scaling (font size changes) on ubuntu Trusty: upplay built with gcc 4 crashes during startup, while building std::regex objects.

Almost fully scalable UI: chose the scale from the preferences menu. This should help people with hidpi screens.

The header section in the directory browser becomes fixed (does not scroll with the list).

Alphabetic links to accelerate navigation in long lists. Also reachable by just typing the initial letter in the directory browser window.

Misc small bug fixes.

Needs libupnpp version 0.16 or newer.

Add entry to directory popup for adjusting sort order without going through the main menu.

Don’t show Receiver sources in source list, as nothing useful can be done with them.

Fix issue with accented characters in catalog pane.

Better use space for displaying artist and album info in playlist.

Option to avoid trying to effect gapless playing (for renderers which have trouble with it).

Add option to avoid monitoring Content Directory update state as it is ennoying with some servers.

Fix tray icon wheel volume adjustment, mute state.

Changed seek and volume keyboard accels to not use Alt.

Fix stupid bug in renderer selection when openhome filtering was set.

Add scrolling to the songcast connections dialog. It was difficult to use with many devices present.

Option to only show OpenHome renderers in the Renderer choice dialog (avoids bubble upnp servers doublons).

Fix drag&drop being wrongly initiated in some cases.

Last.FM scrobbler.

Font size improvements.

Fixes to the AVTransport interface, which had support of a bit of neglect. Especially, attaching to a playing renderer did not update the status, even when the information was available. Switching from an OpenHome renderer to an AVTransport one did not replace the playlist object (stayed attached to the OpenHome renderer).

Improvements to how source switches are handled.

Choice of network interface in preferences

Small fixes for Songcast tool: buttons checked state was not reset.

Tooltips to help read the information in the "currently playing" area.

Options to add artist information to albums lists, and truncate long artist information in track lists.

Random playing of arbitrary-sized subtrees either as individual tracks or as groups/albums

Windows port in sync with other platforms.