clangen/musikcube 0.31.0

musikcube 0.31.0

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windows users: do not unzip the new build over an existing install -- please use a new directory. data is not stored in the installation directory, so your libraries will remain intact.

android users: you also need to upgrade your musikcube installation to 0.31.0, otherwise new features will not work (and some old features may not function properly).

api users: documentation has been updated here.

0.31.0 is a big release, focusing on the following:

• first-class playlist editing support in the server layer, and and on the Android client
• the introduction of audio encoders into main app and SDK
• gapless playback on Android (experimental)
• a massive overhaul of the Android code
• a cleaned up C++ SDK

a more detailed list of changes as follows...

musikcube:

• added support for Ubuntu Artsy
• added preliminary support for audio encoder plugins.
• added stockencoders plugin with support for encoding MP3 (lame) and OGG/Vorbis audio.
• fixed and exposed album-level artwork. previously it was track-only.

musikdroid:

• gapless playback (for supported media)! enable in settings > playback engine > "ExoPlayer Gapless (experimental)"
• playlist create / rename / update / delete support
• album art is now displayed in album rows when browsing content (e.g. albums by this artist, artists in this genre, etc)
• fixed a really bad bug that could cause locally cached media to become corrupted in a very specific scenario (unreliable connectivity while the server is performing on-demand transcoding)
• added a simple "spotlight" tutorial for new users that explains switching between remote and streaming playback modes.
• major refactor to the entire code base, including the following:
  • a brand new data layer interface based on RxJava. this should position the app for lots of new, fun stuff in the future.
  • a new dependency injection implementation
  • a view component layer for sharing functionality across screens
• updated Glide from v3 -> v4
• updated to Android Studio 3.0.1 and related tooling
• fixed notification icon color

sdk:

• removed all Destroy() methods, standardized on Release() across the board
• added the following to ISimpleDataProvider:
  • QueryCategoryWithPredicate()
  • SavePlaylistWithIds()
  • SavePlaylistWithExternalIds()
  • SavePlaylistWithTrackList()
  • AppendToPlaylistWithIds()
  • AppendToPlaylistWithExternalIds()
  • AppendToPlaylistWithTrackList()
  • RemoveTracksFromPlaylist()
  • RenamePlaylist()
  • DeletePlaylist()
• added new interfaces:
  • IValue
  • IEncoder
  • IEncoderFactory
• removed interfaces:
  • IRetainedTrack
  • IRetainedTrackWriter
• renamed interfaces
  • IMetadataMap -> IMap
  • IMetadataMapList -> IMapList
  • IMetadataReader -> ITagReader
  • ITrackWriter -> ITagStore
  • IMetadataValue -> IValue
  • IMetadataValueList -> IValueList

server:

• renamed project from websocket_remote to server, and promoted to a top-level component in the workspace
• added correct LAME headers after transcoding to fix gapless playback of encoded files.
• added the following messages to the websocket server:
  • save_playlist
  • rename_playlist
  • delete_playlist
  • append_to_playlist
  • remove_tracks_from_playlist
  • query_tracks_by_external_ids
• renamed the following track fields:
  • visual_genre_id -> genre_id
  • visual_artist_id -> artist_id
• added the ability to query album art by id
• fixed HttpServer to ignore non-GET verbs
• added "predicated category queries", e.g. "all the albums for this artist" or "all the artists in this genre", etc.
• added artist and artistId to album response (previously it was only return albumArtist and albumArtistId)
• fixed bugs related to HTTP "Range" header parsing and generation
• fixed a bug in the websocket functionality that was returning invalid invalid_request responses... yeah.