1.20.0 Release

• Small behavior change for pinned popup and panel view
• Fix track duration format for > 1hr
• Highlight current track again works in search mode
• Refactor album/artist/genre track options popup
• Track options show on cover art hover
• Text formating and split view sizing clean up
• Use better icons/consistent buttons for some options
• Refactor new connection to fix erroneously missing thumbnails
• Tweak background color theming
• Updated default image (when cover art is not present)
• Simplify and clean up the Logger
• Track splash notify works better on Wayland
  • New fullscreen track splash option
  • Track splash config is under Playback
• New experimental screensaver mode
  • Enabled from popup or plasmoid context menu
  • Click the screensaver to stop
  • Right-click for options

1.19.1 Bug Fix Release

• Fix wrong index on play/remove track when tracklist is sorted
• Gracefully handle undefined artist/album/genre on tracks
• Fix track highlight when a new connection is made

1.19.0 Release

Require Qt 5.15, KDE Frameworks 5.76 (PlasmaExtras Representation item)

• GUI change; track view and zone view panes are combined

• Add high quality cover art option (defaults true)

• (fix) popup would not size right (set too small)

• Add background color theming

• Reformat zone view, feature track info

• Remove abbreviated zone view option

• Remove track slider visible option

• Default views use per track cover art as background

• (fix) regression to zone linking (it now works again)

• Lost connection or hosts not available more robust

• Logger viewer updated

• (fix) playlists and/or Library search were blank when connected

• (fix) Zone/Track view not loading even though connected

• Search fields can be set for the session (overriding field config)

  • does not save across sessions

• Sort options now persist per view (playlist/search/playing now)

  • does not save across sessions

• Cleanup numerous warnings and code formatting

Release v1.18.0

Changes

Require KDE Frameworks 5.69 (KItemmodels, Kirigami 2.12 (ShadowRectangle))

• Update MCWS host config to support include/exclude zones
• Show/hide zones feature now available via configure
• Add option "checkZoneChange" which checks for zone count changes every so often
  • not available via config gui, but can be added to the main.xml, defaults false
• Connection reset now occurs properly when a host is added/removed/enabled/disabled or zones change
• Use new KSortFilterModel (faster, lighter and sort should now work again for all fields)
• Sort button now shows the sort field if the track list is sorted
• Add config option to make the popup panel bigger
• Configured search fields are now used for the Media Library Search tab
• Fix track splash not showing when cover art missing or in no-animate mode
• Add toggle for Equalizer and Loudness
• Shuffle and Repeat modes are now accessed on the popup view directly
• Zone Playback options are now accessed by clicking the Album Art for the Zone (zone view)
• Track/Artist/Album options are now accessed by clicking the Album Art for the Track (track view)
• Moved playback controls and track slider so controls are available in compact mode
• Requests JSON results from MCWS (much faster searches, somewhat less resource usage)
• Added "Album Artist (auto)" to default fields list
• Known issues
  • wayland: track splash location/animation is inconsistent
  • wayland: track name scrolling on panel view is inconsistent

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Release 1.17.0

Changes

Numerous clean up and formatting fixes
More porting to Kirigami in preparation for mobile
Improved initial connection/startup performance
It’s now possible to enable/disable hosts without adding/removing
Fixed: Handle corrupted/incomplete host config properly
Fixed: regression to default to playing zone
Fixed: playback controls sizing craziness when panel grows/shrinks
Requires Qt 5.12 or later

1.16.0 Release

• Add next to play and end of list options in Track Detail
• Clean up the logging/debugging stuff
  • Logging can be enabled on Config/Playback Options
• Internal comms clean up; handle failed connections gracefully
• Use MCWS friendlyname instead of host:port for connection display
  • Host:port must still be set up correctly and are used for the connection to MCWS
  • Might require MCWS host to be re-configured (hopefully not)
• More robust track info support for Web Streams
• Updated some controls and config options to better handle QuickControls2-Desktop-Style
• Change the zone view format to bring track pos slider up with playback countdown
• Track pos slider now defaults to "show" on new installs

1.15.1 Release

• Really work with Qt >= 5.11

1.15.0 Release

• Fix "highlight playing track" on search (regression)
• Fix resetting view when connection changes (regression)
• Fix Splash import to 2.11 (regression)
• Show zone cover art in background on popup window
• Port away from PlasmaCore.IconItem to Kirigami.Icon
• Fix explicit sizing vs. sizing by zone count for adv panel view
• New install defaults adv panel sizing to size by zone count
• Hiding zones is now smoother when changing connection

1.14 Release

• Update readme for web streams setup
• Major Refactor/rename/cleanup mcws connection interface
• Fix flashing pause indicator on panel view (regression)
• Temporarily removed the Streams page
• Rework the command submission/refresh for faster response to change
• Add debug logger window (Enable with allowDebug=true in main.xml)

1.13 Release

• Requires Qt 5.11+/Kirigami 2.3+
• Add option to disable scrolling track name
• Refactor listview delegates - fixes some scrolling/painting anamolies
• Port away from QQC1 to QQC2/Kirigami
• Port to "helpers", common QML modules for other projects
• Major refactor for the splasher
• Remove transition animations from list views (paint issues)
• Add basic DSP features (currently only Equalizer On)
• Use animatedLoad on Track images, speeds larger searches, scrolling
• Refactor compact view to make L-to-R/R-to-L size properly
• Initial support for streaming sources (SomaFM only, currently)
• Hacks to handle viewing web streams a little nicer
• Numerous performance updates regards animations and cover art
• Much more robust panel view sizing, RTL and LTR
• Add feature to hide zones from the views (does not save across sessions)
• Add config option to hide playback controls completely