digitalec/deemon v2.0

2.0

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Version 2.0 - Release Notes

Release Highlights

• Multi-profile support
• Interactive search/download client
• Artist Configuration tool
• Restore backups right from inside deemon
• Smarter monitoring ensuring more accurate results
• New config system with config validation
• Rollback monitor/refresh transactions

Features & Additions

• general Added email notifications on expired ARLs

• general Added option to switch between stable/beta update notifications

• general Specify query_limit limits the amount of search results for monitor and search

• general Set number of days between update checks with check_update

• backup Restore backups using new backup manager backup --restore

• config Change per-artist configuration using new config command

• config To remove a particular value in artist config, type "none"

• download Download all releases from a given date forward using download --from-date

• download Failed downloads are now saved to failed.csv under deemon's config directory

• download Download queue is now exported to queue.csv under deemon's config directory prior to start

• monitor New settings for monitor command: prompt_no_matches and prompt_duplicates

• monitor Prompt user to choose artist if no exact match is found

• monitor Duplicate artist names are now auto-selected based on rank

• monitor Specify a download path on a per-artist basis

• profile New profile command for managing profiles and their configurations

• profile Configuration profiles for monitoring a separate collection of artists

• profile Specify profile to use at run-time: deemon -P NAME ...

• refresh Refresh artists individually

• refresh Progress bars are now dynamic and fit the screen

• refresh Simulate refresh using new --dry-run option

• rollback New rollback command to undo monitor/refresh transactions

• rollback Specify limit of transactions to see in rollback --view using rollback_view_limit

• search search command for searching and downloading new music

• search Ability to monitor/stop monitoring an artist from artist menu

• search Queue multiple artists, albums and tracks and download at once

• search Filter albums by type and sort by year/title

• search Explicit album toggle to change visibility of such albums

• show Export even more data with new CSV filtering options

• show Export artist data to CSV file

• show Playlists now visible using show playlists

• show When using --csv, default view is to show all fields

• show Apply specified filters to CSV output (--filter=id,name,type,bitrate,alerts,path)

• show Show extended artist info by providing artist name: show artists [ARTIST]

Changes

• Reset now has it's own command reset and is replacing monitor --reset
• Switched from GitHub to PyPi for update notifications
• Bitrate now uses friendly names: 128, 320, FLAC
• smtp_recipient is now email
• release_by_date is now by_release_date
• release_max_days is now release_max_age
• When using time-machine, a second refresh is no longer necessary
• show --artists has changed to show artists
• show --new-releases has changed to show releases; default is 7

Fixes

• Latest available version of deemon now stored in database to reduce unnecessary checks
• Artists now sorted alphabetically regardless of case
• Comma in artist name no longer treated as delimiter if name in quotes
• Artist config no longer set to global config when added
• Options are now validated all at once, at initialization
• New configuration options are now added to existing config.json
• Fixes crash when downloading non-existence album ID
• Artist names are now validated for more accurate results
• All errors/warnings now printed together after refresh completes