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ver 0.15.14 (2010/??/??)
* output_thread: fix assertion failure due to race condition in OPEN

ver 0.15.13 (2010/10/10)
* output_thread: fix race condition after CANCEL command
* output:
  - httpd: fix random data in stream title
  - httpd: MIME type audio/ogg for Ogg Vorbis
* input:
  - rewind: update MIME not only once
  - rewind: enable for MMS


ver 0.15.12 (2010/07/20)
* input:
  - curl: remove assertion after curl_multi_fdset()
* tags:
  - rva2: set "gain", not "peak"
* decoders:
  - wildmidi: support version 0.2.3


ver 0.15.11 (2010/06/14)
* tags:
  - ape: support album artist
* decoders:
  - mp4ff: support tags "album artist", "albumartist", "band"
  - mikmod: fix memory leak
  - vorbis: handle uri==NULL
  - ffmpeg: fix memory leak
  - ffmpeg: free AVFormatContext on error
  - ffmpeg: read more metadata
  - ffmpeg: fix libavformat 0.6 by using av_open_input_stream()
* playlist: emit IDLE_OPTIONS when resetting single mode
* listen: make get_remote_uid() work on BSD


ver 0.15.10 (2010/05/30)
* input:
  - mms: fix memory leak in error handler
  - mms: initialize the "eof" attribute
* decoders:
  - mad: properly calculate ID3 size without libid3tag


ver 0.15.9 (2010/03/21)
* decoders:
  - mad: fix crash when seeking at end of song
  - mpcdec: fix negative shift on fixed-point samples
  - mpcdec: fix replay gain formula with v8
* playlist: fix single+repeat in random mode
* player: postpone song tags during cross-fade


ver 0.15.8 (2010/01/17)
* input:
  - curl: allow rewinding with Icy-Metadata
* decoders:
  - ffmpeg, flac, vorbis: added more flac/vorbis MIME types
  - ffmpeg: enabled libavformat's file name extension detection
* dbUtils: return empty tag value only if no value was found
* decoder_thread: fix CUE track playback
* queue: don't repeat current song in consume mode


ver 0.15.7 (2009/12/27)
* archive:
  - close archive when stream is closed
  - iso, zip: fixed memory leak in destructor
* input:
  - file: don't fall back to parent directory
  - archive: fixed memory leak in error handler
* tags:
  - id3: fix ID3v1 charset conversion
* decoders:
  - eliminate jitter after seek failure
  - ffmpeg: don't try to force stereo
  - wavpack: allow fine-grained seeking
* mixer: explicitly close all mixers on shutdown
* mapper: fix memory leak when playlist_directory is not set
* mapper: apply filesystem_charset to playlists
* command: verify playlist name in the "rm" command
* database: return multiple tag values per song


ver 0.15.6 (2009/11/18)
* input:
  - lastfm: fixed variable name in GLib<2.16 code path
  - input/mms: require libmms 0.4
* archive:
  - zzip: require libzzip 0.13
* tags:
  - id3: allow 4 MB RIFF/AIFF tags
* decoders:
  - ffmpeg: convert metadata
  - ffmpeg: align the output buffer
  - oggflac: rewind stream after FLAC detection
  - flac: fixed CUE seeking range check
  - flac: fixed NULL pointer dereference in CUE code
* output_thread: check again if output is open on PAUSE
* update: delete ignored symlinks from database
* database: increased maximum line length to 32 kB
* sticker: added fallback for sqlite3_prepare_v2()


ver 0.15.5 (2009/10/18)
* input:
  - curl: don't abort if a packet has only metadata
  - curl: fixed endless loop during buffering
* tags:
  - riff, aiff: fixed "limited range" gcc warning
* decoders:
  - flac: fixed two memory leaks in the CUE tag loader
* decoder_thread: change the fallback decoder name to "mad"
* output_thread: check again if output is open on CANCEL
* update: fixed memory leak during container scan


ver 0.15.4 (2009/10/03)
* decoders:
  - vorbis: revert "faster tag scanning with ov_test_callback()"
  - faad: skip assertion failure on large ID3 tags
  - ffmpeg: use the "artist" tag if "author" is not present
* output:
  - osx: fix the OS X 10.6 build


ver 0.15.3 (2009/08/29)
* decoders:
  - vorbis: faster tag scanning with ov_test_callback()
* output:
  - fix stuttering due to uninitialized variable
* update: don't re-read unchanged container files


ver 0.15.2 (2009/08/15)
* tags:
  - ape: check the tag size (fixes integer underflow)
  - ape: added protection against large memory allocations
* decoders:
  - mad: skip ID3 frames when libid3tag is disabled
  - flac: parse all replaygain tags
  - flac: don't allocate cuesheet twice (memleak)
* output:
  - shout: fixed stuck pause bug
  - shout: minimize the unpause latency
* update: free empty path string (memleak)
* update: free temporary string in container scan (memleak)
* directory: free empty directories after removing them (memleak)


ver 0.15.1 (2009/07/15)
* decoders:
  - flac: fix assertion failure in tag_free() call
* output:
  - httpd: include sys/types.h (fixes Mac OS X)
* commands:
  - don't resume playback when stopping during pause
* database: fixed NULL pointer dereference after charset change
* log: fix double free() bug during shutdown


ver 0.15 (2009/06/23)
* input:
  - parse Icy-Metadata
  - added support for the MMS protocol
  - hide HTTP password in playlist
  - lastfm: new input plugin for last.fm radio (experimental and incomplete!)
  - curl: moved proxy settings to "input" block
* tags:
  - support the "album artist" tag
  - support MusicBrainz tags
  - parse RVA2 tags in mp3 files
  - parse ID3 tags in AIFF/RIFF/WAV files
  - ffmpeg: support new metadata API
  - ffmpeg: added support for the tags comment, genre, year
* decoders:
  - audiofile: streaming support added
  - audiofile: added 24 bit support
  - modplug: another MOD plugin, based on libmodplug
  - mikmod disabled by default, due to severe security issues in libmikmod
  - sidplay: new decoder plugin for C64 SID (using libsidplay2)
  - fluidsynth: new decoder plugin for MIDI files (using libfluidsynth,
    experimental due to shortcomings in libfluidsynth)
  - wildmidi: another decoder plugin for MIDI files (using libwildmidi)
  - flac: parse stream tags
  - mpcdec: support the new libmpcdec SV8 API
  - added configuration option to disable decoder plugins
  - flac: support embedded cuesheets
  - ffmpeg: updated list of supported formats
* audio outputs:
  - added option to disable audio outputs by default
  - wait 10 seconds before reopening after play failure
  - shout: enlarged buffer size to 32 kB
  - null: allow disabling synchronization
  - mvp: fall back to stereo
  - mvp: fall back to 16 bit audio samples
  - mvp: check for reopen errors
  - mvp: fixed default device detection
  - pipe: new audio output plugin which runs a command
  - alsa: better period_time default value for high sample rates
  - solaris: new audio output plugin for Solaris /dev/audio
  - httpd: new audio output plugin for web based streaming, similar to icecast
     but built in.
* commands:
  - "playlistinfo" and "move" supports a range now
  - added "sticker database", command "sticker", which allows clients
     to implement features like "song rating"
  - added "consume" command which removes a song after play
  - added "single" command, if activated, stops playback after current song or
     repeats the song if "repeat" is active.
* mixers:
  - rewritten mixer code to support multiple mixers
  - new pulseaudio mixer
  - alsa: new mixer_index option supports choosing between multiple
    identically-named controls on a device.
* Add audio archive extraction support:
  - bzip2
  - iso9660
  - zip
* the option "error_file" was removed, all messages are logged into
   "log_file"
* support logging to syslog
* fall back to XDG music directory if no music_directory is configured
* failure to read the state file is non-fatal
* --create-db starts the MPD daemon instead of exiting
* playlist_directory and music_directory are optional
* playlist: recalculate the queued song after random is toggled
* playlist: don't unpause on delete
* pause when all audio outputs fail to play
* daemon: ignore "user" setting if already running as that user
* listen: fix broken client IP addresses in log
* listen: bind failure on secondary address is non-fatal
* 24/32 bit audio support
* print available protocols in --version
* fill buffer after seeking
* choose the fallback resampler at runtime
* steps taken towards win32 compatibility
* require glib 2.6 or greater
* built-in documentation using doxygen and docbook


ver 0.14.2 (2009/02/13)
* configure.ac:
  - define HAVE_FFMPEG after all checks
* decoders:
  - ffmpeg: added support for the tags comment, genre, year
  - ffmpeg: don't warn of empty packet output
  - ffmpeg: check if the time stamp is valid
  - ffmpeg: fixed seek integer overflow
  - ffmpeg: enable WAV streaming
  - ffmpeg: added TTA support
  - wavpack: pass NULL if the .wvc file fails to open
  - mikmod: call MikMod_Exit() only in the finish() method
  - aac: fix stream metadata
* audio outputs:
  - jack: allocate ring buffers before connecting
  - jack: clear "shutdown" flag on reconnect
  - jack: reduced sleep time to 1ms
  - shout: fixed memory leak in the mp3 encoder
  - shout: switch to blocking mode
  - shout: use libshout's synchronization
  - shout: don't postpone metadata
  - shout: clear buffer before calling the encoder
* mapper: remove trailing slashes from music_directory
* player: set player error when output device fails
* update: recursively purge deleted directories
* update: free deleted subdirectories

ver 0.14.1 (2009/01/17)
* decoders:
  - mp4: support the writer/composer tag
  - id3: strip leading and trailing whitespace from ID3 tags
  - oggvorbis: fix tremor support
  - oggvorbis: disable seeking on remote files
* audio outputs:
  - jack: allocate default port names (fixes a crash)
* update:
  - refresh stats after update
  - save the database even if it is empty
* input_curl:
  - use select() to eliminate busy loop during connect
  - honour http_proxy_* config directives
  - fix assertion failure on "connection refused"
  - fix assertion failure with empty HTTP responses
* corrected the sample calculation in the fallback resampler
* log: automatically append newline
* fix setenv() conflict on Solaris
* configure.ac: check for pkg-config before using it
* fix minor memory leak in decoder_tag()
* fix cross-fading bug: it used to play some chunks of the new song twice
* playlist
  - fix assertion failure during playlist load
  - implement Fisher-Yates shuffle properly
  - safely search the playlist for deleted song
* use custom PRNG for volume dithering (speedup)
* detect libid3tag without pkg-config

ver 0.14 (2008/12/25)
* audio outputs:
  - wait 10 seconds before reopening a failed device
  - fifo: new plugin
  - null: new plugin
  - shout: block while trying to connect instead of failing
  - shout: new timeout parameter
  - shout: support mp3 encoding and the shoutcast protocol
  - shout: send silence during pause, so clients don't get disconnected
* decoders:
  - ffmpeg: new plugin
  - wavpack: new plugin
  - aac: stream support added
  - mod: disabled by default due to critical bugs in all libmikmod versions
* commands:
  - "addid" takes optional second argument to specify position
  - "idle" notifies the client when a notable change occurs
* Zeroconf support using Bonjour
* New zeroconf_enabled option so that Zeroconf support can be disabled
* Stop the player/decode processes when not playing to allow the CPU to sleep
* Fix a bug where closing an ALSA dmix device could cause MPD to hang
* Support for reading ReplayGain from LAME tags on MP3s
* MPD is now threaded, which greatly improves performance and stability
* memory usage reduced by merging duplicate tags in the database
* support connecting via unix domain socket
* allow authenticated local users to add any local file to the playlist
* 24 bit audio support
* optimized PCM conversions and dithering
* much code has been replaced by using GLib
* the HTTP client has been replaced with libcurl
* symbolic links in the music directory can be disabled; the default
  is to ignore symlinks pointing outside the music directory

ver 0.13.0 (2007/5/28)
* New JACK audio output
* Support for "file" as an alternative to "filename" in search, find, and list
* FLAC 1.1.3 API support
* New playlistadd command for adding to stored playlists
* New playlistclear command for clearing stored playlists
* Fix a bug where "find any" and "list <type> any" wouldn't return any results
* Make "list any" return an error instead of no results and an OK
* New gapless_mp3_playback option to disable gapless MP3 playback
* Support for seeking HTTP streams
* Zeroconf support using Avahi
* libsamplerate support for high quality audio resampling
* ID3v2 "Original Artist/Performer" tag support
* New playlistsearch command for searching the playlist (similar to "search")
* New playlistfind command for finding songs in the playlist (similar to "find")
* libmikmod 3.2.0 beta support
* New tagtypes command for retrieving a list of available tag types
* Fix a bug where no ACK was returned if loading a playlist failed
* Fix a bug where db_update in stats would be 0 after initial database creation
* New count command for getting stats on found songs (similar to "find")
* New playlistmove command for moving songs in stored playlists
* New playlistdelete command for deleting songs from stored playlists
* New rename command for renaming stored playlists
* Increased default buffer_before_play from 0% to 10% to prevent skipping
* Lots of bug fixes, cleaned up code, and performance improvements

ver 0.12.2 (2007/3/20)
* Fix a bug where clients could cause MPD to segfault

ver 0.12.1 (2006/10/10)
* Fix segfault when scanning an MP3 that has a Xing tag with 0 frames
* Fix segfault when there's no audio output specified and one can't be detected
* Fix handling of escaping in quotes
* Allow a quality of -1 to be specified for shout outputs
* A few minor cleanups

ver 0.12.0 (2006/9/22)
* New audio output code which supports:
  * A plugin-like architecture
  * Non-libao ("native") outputs:
    * ALSA
    * OSS
    * OS X
    * Media MVP
    * PulseAudio
    * Shout (Icecast or Shoutcast)
  * Playing through multiple outputs at once
  * Enabling/disabling outputs while MPD is running
  * Saving output state (enabled/disabled) to the state_file
* OggFLAC support
* Musepack support
* Gapless MP3 playback
* MP3 ReplayGain support (using ID3v2 tags only)
* Support for MP2 files if MP3 support is enabled
* Composer, Performer, Comment, and Disc metadata support
* New outputs command for listing available audio outputs
* New enableoutput and disableoutput commands for enabling/disabling outputs
* New plchangesposid command for a stripped down version of plchanges
* New addid command for adding to the playlist and returning a song ID
* New commands and notcommands commands for checking available commands
* Can now specify any supported metadata type or "any" in search, find, and list
* New volume_normalization parameter for enabling Audio Compress normalization
* New metadata_to_use parameter for choosing supported metadata types
* New pid_file parameter for saving the MPD process ID to the specified file
* The db_file parameter is now required
* The port parameter is now optional (defaults to 6600)
* Can specify bind_to_address multiple times
* New --kill argument for killing MPD if pid_file is specified
* Removed --update-db argument (use the update function in your client instead)
* New mpdconf.example
* New mpd.conf man page 
* Removed bundled libmad and libid3tag
* Lots of bug fixes, cleaned up code, and performance improvements

ver 0.11.5 (2004/11/1)
1) New id3v1_encoding config option to configure the id3v1 tag encoding (patch
from dottedmag)
2) Strip '\r' from m3u playlists (thank you windows)
3) Use random() instead of rand() for playlist randomizing
4) Fix a bug trying skipping some commented lines in m3u playlist files
5) Fix a bug when fetching metadata from streams that may cause certain
weirdnesses
6) Fix a bug where replaygain preamp was used on files w/o replaygain tags
7) Fix a busy loop when trying to prebuffer a nonexistant or missing stream
8) Fix a bug in forgetting to remove leading ' ' in content-type for http
streams
9) Check for ice-name in http headers
10) Be sure the strip all '\n' chars in tags
11) Set $HOME env variable when setuid'ing, this should fix the /root/.mcop
errors triggered by arts/libao

ver 0.11.4 (2004/7/26)
1) Fixed a segfault when decoding mp3's with corrupt id3v2 tags
2) Fixed a memory leak when encountering id3v2 tags in mp3 decoder

ver 0.11.3 (2004/7/21)
1) Add support for http authentication for streams
2) Added replaygain pre-amp support
3) Better error handling for fread() in inputStream_file
4) Fixed a bug so that when a freeAllInterfaces is called, it sets
max_interface_connections to 0.  This prevents potential segfaults and other
nastiness for forked processes, like the player and update-er (do to
interfacePrintWithFD()).
5) Allow blockingWrite() to handle errors more gracefully (for example, if the
disc is full, and thus the write() fails or can't be completed, we just skip
this write() and continue, instead of getting stuck in an infinite loop until
the write() becomes successful)
6) Updated mpdconf.example from sbh/avuton
7) If "user" is specified, then convert ~ in paths to the user's home path
specified by "user" config paramter (not the actual current user running mpd).

ver 0.11.2 (2004/7/5) 
1) Work around in computing total time for mp3's whose first valid mpeg frame is
not layer III
2) Fix mp3 and mp4 decoders when seeking past the end of the file
3) Fix replaygain for flac and vorbis
4) Fix memory leaks in flac decoder (from normalperson)
5) Fix Several other bugs in playlist.c and directory.c (from normalperson)

ver 0.11.1 (2004/6/24)
1) Fix a bug that caused "popping" at the beginning of mp3's
2) Fix playlistid command
3) Fix move commands so they don't mess up the song id's
4) Added support for HTTP Proxy
5) Detect and skip recursive links in the music directory
6) Fix addPathToDB() so updating on a specific path doesn't exist correctly adds
the parent directories to the DB

ver 0.11.0 (2004/6/18)
1) Support for playing mp3 and Ogg Vorbis streams
2) Non-blocking Update
3) Replaygain support for Ogg Vorbis and FLAC (by Eric Moore aka AliasMrJones)
4) audio_output_format option that allows for all audio output to be converted
to a format compatible with any sound card
5) Own routines for to always support UTF-8 <-> ISO-8859-1 conversion
6) Added "Id" and "Pos" metadata for songs in playlist
7) Added commands: plchanges, currentsong, playid, seekid, playlistid, moveid,
swapid, deleteid
8) UTF-8 validation of all tags
9) Update specific files/directories (for fast, incremental updating)
10) Added ACK error codes
11) Mod file support
12) Added command_list_ok_begin
13) Play after stop resumes from last position in the playlist
14) Play while pause resumes playback
15) Better signal handling by mackstann
16) Cleanup decoder interface (now called InputPlugins)
17) --create-db no long starts the daemon
18) --no-daemon outputs to log files
19) --stdout sends output to stdout/stderr
20) Default port is now 6600
21) Lots of other cleanups and Bugfixes

ver 0.10.4 (2004/5/26)
1) Fix configure problems on OpenBSD with langinfo and iconv
2) Fix an infinte loop when writing to an interface and it has expired
3) Fix a segfault in decoding flac's
4) Ingore CRC stuff in mp3's since some encoders did not compute the CRC
correctly
5) Fix a segfault in processing faulty mp4 metadata

ver 0.10.3 (2004/4/2)
1) Fix a segfault when a blanck line is sent from a client
2) Fix for loading playlists on platforms where char is unsigned
3) When pausing, release audio device after we say pause is successful (this
makes pause appear to not lag)
4) When returning errors for unknown types by player, be sure to copy the
filename
5) add --disable-alsa for disabling alsa mixer support
6) Use select() for a portable usleep()
7) For alsa mixer, default to "Master' element, not first element

ver 0.10.2 (2004/3/25)
1) Add suport for AAC
2) Substitute '\n' with ' ' in tag info
3) Remove empty directories from db
4) Resume from current position in song when using state file
5) Pause now closes the music device, and reopens it on resuming
6) Fix unnecessary big endian byte swapping
7) If locale is "C" or "POSIX", then use ISO-8859-1 as the fs charset
8) Fix a bug where alsa mixer wasn't detecting volume changes
9) For alsa and software mixer, show volume to be the same as it was set (even
if its not the exact volume)
10) Report bitrate for wave files
11) Compute song length of CBR mp3's more accurately

ver 0.10.1 (2004/3/7)
1) Check to see if we need to add "-lm" when linking mpd
2) Fix issues with skipping bad frames in an mp3 (this way we get the correct
samplerate and such)
3) Fix crossfading bug with ogg's
4) Updated libmad and libid3tag included w/ source to 0.15.1b

ver 0.10.0 (2004/3/3)
1) Use UTF-8 for all client communications
2) Crossfading support
3) Password Authentication (all in plaintext)
4) Software mixer
5) Buffer Size is configurable
6) Reduced Memory consumption (use directory tree for search and find)
7) Bitrate support for Flac
8) setvol command (deprecates volume command)
9) add command takes directories
10) Path's in config file now work with ~
11) Add samplerate,bits, and channels to status
12) Reenable playTime in stats display
13) Fix a segfault when doing: add ""
14) Fix a segfault with flac vorbis comments simply being "="
15) Fix a segfault/bug in queueNextSong with repeat+random
16) Fix a bug, where one process may segfault, and cause more processes to spawn
w/o killing ones that lost their parent.
17) Fix a bug when the OSS device was unable to fetch the current volume,
it would close the device (when it maybe previously closed by the exact same
code)
18) command.c cleanup by mackstann
19) directory.c and command.c cleanup by tw-nym

ver 0.9.4 (2004/1/21)
1) Fix a bug where updated tag info wasn't being detected
2) Set the default audio write size to 1024 bytes (should decrease cpu load a
bit on some machines).
3) Make audio write size configurable via "audio_write_size" config option
4) Tweak output buffer size for connections by detecting the kernel output
buffer size.

ver 0.9.3 (2003/10/31)
1) Store total time/length of songs in db and display in *info commands
2) Display instantaneous bitrate in status command
3) Add Wave Support using libaudiofile (Patch from normalperson)
4) Command code cleanup (Patch from tw-nym)
5) Optimize listing of playlists (10-100x faster)
6) Optimize interface output (write in 4kB chunks instead of on every '\n')
7) Fix bug that prevented rm command from working
8) Fix bug where deleting current song skips the next song
9) Use iconv to convert vorbis comments from UTF-8 to Latin1

ver 0.9.2 (2003/10/6)
1) Fix FreeBSD Compilation Problems
2) Fix bug in move command
3) Add mixer_control options to configure which mixer control/device mpd
controls
4) Randomize on play -1
5) Fix a bug in toggling repeat off and at the end of the playlist

ver 0.9.1 (2003/9/30)
1) Fix a statement in the middle of declarations in listen.c, causes error for
gcc 2.7

ver 0.9.0 (2003/9/30)
1) Random play mode
2) Alsa Mixer Support
3) Save and Restore "state"
4) Default config file locations (.mpdconf and /etc/mpd.conf)
5) Make db file locations configurable
6) Move songs around in the playlist
7) Gapless playback
8) Use Xing tags for mp3's
9) Remove stop_on_error
10) Seeking support
11) Playlists can be loaded and deleted from subdirectories
12) Complete rewrite of player layer (fork()'s only once, opens and closes
audio device as needed).
13) Eliminate use and dependence of SIGIO
14) IPv6 support
15) Solaris compilations fixes
16) Support for different log levels
17) Timestamps for log entries
18) "user" config parameter for setuid (patch from Nagilum)
19) Other misc features and bug fixes

ver 0.8.7 (2003/9/3)
1) Fix a memory leak.  When closing a interface, was called close() on the fd
instead of calling fclose() on the fp that was opened with fdopen().

ver 0.8.6 (2003/8/25)
1) Fix a memory leak when a buffered existed, and a connection was unexpectedly
closed, and i wasn't free'ing the buffer apropriatly.

ver 0.8.5 (2003/8/17)
1) Fix a bug where an extra end of line is returned when attempting to play a
non existing file.  This causes parsing errors for clients.

ver 0.8.4 (2003/8/13)
1) Fix a bug where garbage is returned with errors in "list" command

ver 0.8.3 (2003/8/12) 
1) Fix a compilation error on older linux systems
2) Fix a bug in searching by title
3) Add "list" command
4) Add config options for specifying libao driver/plugin and options
5) Add config option to specify which address to bind to
6) Add support for loading and saving absolute pathnames in saved playlists
7) Playlist no longer creates duplicate entries for song data (more me
efficient)
8) Songs deleted from the db are now removed for the playlist as well

ver 0.8.2 (2003/7/22)
1) Increased the connection que for listen() from 0 to 5
2) Cleanup configure makefiles so that mpd uses MPD_LIBS and MPD_CFLAGS
rather than LIBS and CFLAGS
3) Put a cap on the number of commands per command list
4) Put a cap on the maximum number of buffered output lines
5) Get rid of TIME_WAIT/EADDRINUSE socket problem
6) Use asynchronious IO (i.e. trigger SIGIO instead so we can sleep in
select() calls longer)

ver 0.8.1 (2003/7/11)
1) FreeBSD fixes
2) Fix for rare segfault when updating
3) Fix bug where client was being hungup on when done playing current song
4) Fix bug when playing flac's where it incorrectly reports an error
5) Make stop playlist on error configurable
6) Configure checks for installed libmad and libid3tag and uses those if found
7) Use buffer->finished in *_decode's instead of depending on catching signals

ver 0.8.0 (2003/7/6)
1) Flac support
2) Make playlist max length configurable
3) New backward compatible status (backward compatible for 0.8.0 on)
4) listall command now can take a directory as an argument
5) Buffer rewritten to use shared memory instead of sockets
6) Playlist adding done using db
7) Add sort to list, and use binary search for finding
8) New "stats" command
9) Command list (for faster adding of large batches of files)
10) Add buffered chunks before play
11) Useful error reporting to clients (part of status command)
12) Use libid3tag for reading id3 tags (more stable)
13) Non-blocking output to clients
14) Fix bug when removing items from directory
15) Fix bug when playing mono mp3's
16) Fix bug when attempting to delete files when using samba
17) Lots of other bug fixes I can't remember

ver 0.7.0 (2003/6/20)
1) use mad instead of mpg123 for mp3 decoding
2) volume support
3) repeate playlist support
4) use autoconf/automake (i.e. "configure")
5) configurable max connections

ver 0.6.2 (2003/6/11)
1) Buffer support for ogg
2) new config file options: "connection_timeout" and "mpg123_ignore_junk"
3) new commands: "next", "previous", and "listall"
Thanks to Niklas Hofer for "next" and "previous" patches!
4) Search by filename
5) bug fix for pause when playing mp3's

ver 0.6.1 (2003/5/29)
1) Add conf file support
2) Fix a bug when doing mp3stop (do wait3(NULL,WNOHANG|WUNTRACED,NULL))
3) Fix a bug when fork'ing, fflush file buffers before forking so the
child doesn't print the same stuff in the buffer.

ver 0.6.0 (2003/5/25)
1) Add ogg vorbis support
2) Fix two bugs relating to tables, one for search by title, and one where we
freed the tables before directories, causing a segfault
3) The info command has been removed.

ver 0.5.0-0.5.2
Initial release(s).  Support for MP3 via mpg123