Version 7.3.3

Firmware updates:

Boom - Version 47
Squeezebox 2/3 - Version 127
Transporter - Version 77
Receiver - Version 62

Ogg Vorbis streams can now be played. Note that low-bitrate streams less than 64k are not supported due to excess memory requirements.
No longer use OpenDNS as a fallback, as it may return inconsistent SN results from other devices on the network.
Fixed DNS incompatibility with certain Netgear routers.
#4418 - Ogg Vorbis streams crash player
#7857 - Player crashes when playing an Ogg file with large headers
#10638 - Boom: No sound from Line In in setup menu
#10815 - Extend STMn to indicate why decoder failed
#10944 - serv 0 does not return player to Select Music Source
#10945 - Boom will not power cycle from IR remote

Networking:

No longer use OpenDNS as a fallback, as it may return inconsistent SN results from other devices on the network.

Bug Fixes:

#1361 - Mac: expand the music folder path if it's an alias, or SC would crash at startup
#7794 - Removal of Windows specific plugin in debian build
#8426 - Controller Artist Search is restricted to whole-album Artists
#8683 - Squeezecenter .deb's logrotate should not restart
#9472 - Remote playlist with multiple WMA streams plays only first stream
#9878 - Favorites with non-latin characters in their url don't work
#9931 - MIP playlist is not restored after a player reconnects to SC
#10060 - The alarm doesn't fade in if the source is Internet radio
#10087 - Backup alarm does not work if SC is password-protected
#10112 - Problem seeking in podcasts with large ID3v2 tags
#10310 - Changing volume on syncd player causes volume to jump to pre-syncd level
#10325 - Player UI (SB 3/Classic) clock gets stuck - does not update after a server was in suspend mode
#10371 - Bright white LED does not go off at end of play
#10458 - onStop handler is called when seeking
#10475 - Last 15 seconds of song gets chopped off (skipped)
#10479 - WMA files streamed from HTTP servers cause player to reboot
#10583 - VA albums handled as many one-track albums with 2 artists each
#10635 - Non-user-friendly message for bad podcast files
#10640 - Local real time clock showing in Now Playing in SN Radio
#10681 - Fail to start new track after underrun (esp. when synced)
#10692 - Early (premature) STMd (decoder buffer underrun) provokes hang
#10693 - Abort link present after scan complete in web UI
#10702 - MusicIP Mood menu missing from Jive's menu
#10724 - MB changed MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM ARTIST
#10730 - Downloads from SqueezeCenter cut off prematurely
#10736 - Extension Downloader shows plugins for upgrade when already at latest version
#10744 - International characters sorted wrong when browsing Music Folder
#10749 - Support "Album Artist" for FLAC used by JR Media Center
#10752 - Logging output is displayed in OSX installer's OK dialog box
#10761 - Formats::WMA doesn't map WM/ArtistSortOrder
#10762 - WMA: WM/Comments should be mapped to COMMENT
#10807 - Unavailable plugins can be placed on the Home Menu
#10818 - Some types of transcoding degrade SC & GUI responsiveness
#10828 - Unexpected unpause when synced upon power-on
#10833 - Startup time for remote streams is too slow
#10886 - Cannot play AIFF files ripped with dBpoweramp
#10928 - Settings Web UI broken in Safari
#10939 - Non-square artwork does not display correctly in web UI
#11001 - Icecast authenticated streams that allow 1 con/user sometimes fail
#11006 - No sound after upgrade; SOX has wrong arguments for Ogg->AIFF
#11056 - Vorbis Comment "DESCRIPTION" frame should be mapped to "COMMENT"
#11222 - Playing a playlist causes controller to disconnect from SC
#11259 - Network test not working on SB1
#11261 - After disconnecting from power, Boom would forget bass/treble/stereoxl
#11446 - Radio logos not showing

Version 7.3.2 - 2009-01-20

Firmware updates:

Boom - Version 43
Squeezebox 2/3 - Version 123
Transporter - Version 73
Receiver - Version 58

(Boom) Improved Woofer-Tweeter crossover.
#7681 - (Boom) In 'Off' mode it uses 8 Watts, while playing it uses 9 Watts
#7918 - strm-a (skip-ahead) can provoke STMo (output buffer underrun)
#9796 - (Boom) Firmware messages not shown if power off brightness is set to 0 (Dark)
#10161 - Some items are editable in Current Settings but changes do not stick
#10383 - All players should set firmware auto update option to true
#10493 - Long Rhapsody trial session IDs can fail with org.xml.sax.SAXParseException
#10705 - (Boom) RTC alarm is muted - only the alarm bell sign flashes

Bug Fixes:

#7966 - SqueezeCenter does not recognize wide characters if using iTunes
#8272 - Race condition in setd pref sync logic causes inability to update firmware
#9132 - Status command does not return updated ratings until SC restart
#9544 - Large number of plugins with web pages could break the web UI
#9623 - SqueezeCenter tried to download firmwares to Firmware dir
#9737 - Add clock display to SB/TP when pressing snooze button
#9754 - Settings screens lose scroll bar, buttons etc.
#9833 - RTC alarm should only be set if the next alarm is within 24 hours
#9962 - Player Settings->Remote not appearing in SLIMP3 web settings page
#9970 - Scanner crashes when handling FLAC with embedded cue and external cue
#9997 - Add updated sox with FLAC support
This means that downsampling of FLAC will produce FLAC instead of MP3 by default
#10033 - APE --> MP3 via Lame is broken
#10180 - add support for textkeys in raw CLI queries for albums, artists, genres and musicfolder
#10181 - Press and hold front panel power toggles power
#10186 - Add a set preset option to the favorites CLI
#10283 - Zap ignored during screen saver
#10361 - Display full file name instead of Windows' short file name for files with unicode in the path/name (most noticeable in Browse Music Folder)
#10386 - ID3 chunk in WAV files not read sometimes
#10391 - RandomMix with now genre selected leads to DB error
#10400 - Sync'd playlists don't advance with SLIMP3/SB1-only sync-group
#10406 - Sync'd playback occurs on powered off players
#10407 - Streaming can get blocked after a failure
#10419 - FWD/REW (scanning) broken for remote tracks
#10437 - Initial audio block algorithm fails for small initial chunks
#10438 - SliMP3/SB1 sync broken after first track
#10446 - No FeedBack in web UI on love/ban track
#10450 - Bad use of pretty string bitrate description instead of numeric value
#10451 - Pipeline / socketwrapper use may impose additional overhead
#10452 - Bogus " (Disc 1)" suffix appended to single-disc album titles of FLAC tracks ripped by dBpoweramp CD Ripper.
#10474 - New Windows sox build dependent upon cygwin1.dll
#10499 - Scanner and progress use different time formats
#10510 - Restore now playing show briefly on jump
#10514 - Volume Bar is not in center of screen
#10521 - Artist not updated in status view in Fishbone skin
#10534 - Uncaught streaming connection close can fill logfile
#10540 - Garbaged characters displayed when offering the download of a new version of SC
#10566 - Windows Media Player Playlists empty in SqueezeCenter 7.3.1
#10567 - Allow plugins to disable crossfade for certain tracks
#10615 - Synchronized play can stall / be silent at track change
#10634 - Sync unreliable after server sleep (standby)

Version 7.3.1 - 2008-12-22

Firmware updates:

Boom - Version 41
Squeezebox 2/3 - Version 121
Transporter - Version 71
Receiver - Version 56

#7814 - Glitches in some MP3 radio streams
#9003 - Occasional loud noises when moving to a new Rhapsody track

Bug Fixes:

#4578 - Accented characters in playlist entries don't rescan correctly
#5119 - Replay gain with positive gain setting can cause clipping
#8654 - Update to WavPack 4.50
#9553 - Track title metadata missing when track title contains ellipsis in cue file
#10009 - SC not able to read cyrillic-based name
#10053 - Random Mix favorites doesn't work from Controller
#10155 - Scanner does not find OGA files
#10293 - use custom-convert.conf instead of customized convert.conf on ReadyNAS
#10303 - WMA metadata is delayed too long
#10307 - build-perl-modules.pl DBD-mysql-3.002 calls wrong DBI version
#10315 - MusicIP Playlist names with non-ASCII characters need sanitizing on Windows
#10316 - MusicIP Mood names with non-ASCII characters need sanitizing on Windows
#10317 - Music Stores listed twice on new player
#10326 - Adding certain menu items to the player menu breaks the menu
#10331 - PrefSync from SN happens even if SN Integration is disabled in SC
#10334 - Typo in convert.conf for mov->mp3
#10379 - Pandora does not properly continue after an audio URL fails
#10388 - Change flac->flac to flac->wav or similar for flac/cue files on sparc based ReadyNAS

Version 7.3 - 2008-12-11

Firmware updates:

Boom - Version 40
Squeezebox 2/3 - Version 120
Transporter - Version 70
Receiver - Version 55

Improved Rhapsody performance.
Support for Rhapsody seeking.
Improved Sirius metadata handling.
Support for WMA radio metadata.
(Boom) Brightness setting would not stick if Boom gets disconnected from SC or wireless access point.
(Boom) Fixed RTC clock not showing if Boom gets disconnected from wireless access point.
(Boom) Changed wording for pre SC 7.2 error message asking people to upgrade their SC. Only show this error message when trying to connect to SC.
#1397 - Digital outputs remain active in sleep / off mode
#5206 - Add menu function to SB to perform a Factory Reset
#7995 - Send WOL from Boom before alarm is due
#8489 - (Boom) Changed "wheel" to "knob".
#8575 - Add right arrow to 'Current Settings' items that are editable
#8710 - Fixed a race condition where a track start event was not sent during track changes.
#9051 - (Boom) 'Always On' and 'Always Off' line-out modes
#3598, #9266, #9477 - All errors now show for about 30 seconds before the display goes dark on SB3/Transporter. When the display is dark, pressing any button shows the last error message again for about 30 seconds.
#9415 - DHCP timeout too short
#9517, #9565 - Fixed bug in FLAC decoder that caused underrun events to not be sent.
#9597 - (Boom) Bass/treble controls do not affect headphone out
#9644 - WOL packet not sent from SBC if Duet setup in bridged mode
#9706 - Going to SC from SN can prompt user for stuff that's already been chosen.
#9836 - WMA ChunkTypeChangingMedia not handled properly

Web UI:

Improved, simplified first run wizard
New ScreenReader skin - based on Handheld, with some optimizations for screen readers as used by blind users.
Faster page loading (reduced JS file size).
Remember width of "Now Playing" panel
"Extension Installer" for simplifying installation of SqueezeCenter Plugins and Squeezebox Controller Applets

Platform support:

New Slim::Utils::OS classes allow for simplified SqueezeCenter customizing and platform support. See the wiki article about Slim::Utils::OS::Custom for details.
Improved detection of initial server settings like music source, iTunes integration etc.
Significantly reduce memory consumption of the scanner
More memory and performance optimizations for low power platforms.
Enable unattended installation on Windows
SqueezeCenter log files are rotated when they grow beyond 100MB (Windows/OSX)

Synchronization & Streaming:

Gapless synchronization (but not for SliMP3 or SB1)
Crossfade with synchronization
Mid-track join, when a new player joins a sync-group, by restarting all players in a sync-group at the current playing position (for stream sources that support this)
Gapless play (well almost) on SliMP3 (but not when synced)
Share bandwidth and support proper synced play of remote MMS/WMA streams, including Sirius.
Share bandwidth when playing synced Rhapsody.
Removed Rhapsody stream limit for synced players. Each sync group now counts as one stream.

Internet Radio:

Re-organized Internet Radio menu to make it easier to find radio stations.
Now-Playing metadata support for RadioTime stations.

Music Services:

Deezer Radio (France, UK, Germany)

Boom

Speakers can be used even if headphones are plugged in

Bug Fixes:

#529 - Add feature to disable re-buffering at the beginning of each track when syncing
#571, #9153 - Transcoded files cannot FWD / RWD
#1943 - Rotating SlimServer logs (Windows/OSX only)
#1845 - crossfade and gapless does not function properly when synchronized
#3751 - Now Playing jumps ahead on SB1
#4266 - Bitrate limiting does not work for MP3 streams
#4578 - Accented characters in playlist entries don't rescan correctly
#4834 - After Switching to digital input device will not play music without a comlete reset.
#5637 - Speed up MusicIP scanning by (optionally) not reading metadata from MIP
#6407 - Transporter won't play optical when sync'd with squeezebox
#6537 - Respect title format pref for remote metadata
#6599 - WMA should support proxied streaming
#6615 - Does not repeat after remote stream failure at end of playlist
#7091 - Player settings are overridden by sync group settings
#7121 - Syncing a Powered off player to a powered on player can cause music from "off" player
#7501 - stream.mp3 stops at end of playlist and disappears from Web UI
#7531 - Sync/unsync operations sometimes need to consider players which are off
#7990 - CLI: Status subscribe: not all players notified when synchronization is cancelled
#8327 - Squeezecenter should downsample high-sample-rate files for older players
#8637 - Searching for files with non-ASCII characters on Linux works intermittently
#8766 - Deleted MusicIP filters should not be used anymore by SC
#8914 - Moving 1 player from a sync to SN will cause all players to halt playback
#8952 - Update notification needs to be localized
#9002 - MusicIP fails to import existing playlists
#9039 - No track seeking when playing flac .cue files
#9154 - When displaying 'large' artwork, certain info tags should be cut short...
#9230 - SBC fails firmware upgrade if SC has a bad internet connection
#9272 - MusicIP import doesn't remove stale playlists
#9368 - Unable to enter AM in alarm when switching Time Format
#9382 - 'Add Next' does not work from XMLBrowser menus
#9404 - Boom: Added minimum and sensitivity settings (web, player ui, jive) for automatic brightness
#9405 - Restore original volume when alarm ends
#9429 - Rescan music library shows wrong type during scan
#9484 - Connection loss between controller and Squeezecenter while accessing large directories/albums (Music Folder Browsing)
#9501 - Unattended installs difficult with present windows installer
#9541 - DRM-ed ITunes files in playlists should not appear in Player UI
#9555 - Some Rhapsody items don't work when saved as favorites
#9587 - Standard web interface freezes when a TwonkyMedia is on network
#9598 - Add the ability to retrieve possible alarm playlist urls via CLI
#9601 - Don't fallback to OpenDNS if non-primary local NS tests fail
#9605 - MIP-Mixes won't contain tracks with non-ascii characters in it's file/directoryname
#9608 - SC max synced players (List Box) - not displaying all players with many players connected
#9666 - Time box missing from Alarm panel, once alarm is set
#9681 - Spectrum analyzer screensaver behaves differently since SC7.2/FW112
#9703 - Add date & time of last scan to Music Scan Details
#9709 - Stack Overflow podcast doesn't play (using direct streaming)
#9722 - Sync when already synced should show "unsyncing" show-briefly
#9801 - stream.mp3 times out after a minute
#9818 - Real Time clock not set after clock change on server
#9863 - Add a "favorites exists url/id" command to CLI
#9899 - Send 'dsco' for an unrecognized player type
#9910 - Scroll once then stop and long titles breaks screensaver
#9913 - Disable 96KHz and 88.1KHz by default on products that can't play it
#10014 - Screen flashes off when browsing to a Now Playing current playlist (SB1 text display)

Version 7.2.1 - 2008-10-20

Firmware updates:

Boom - Version 33
Squeezebox 2/3 - Version 113
Transporter - Version 63
Receiver - Version 48

Reduced audio glitches during re-buffering.
#8375 - (Boom) Holding down Add (+) button during power cycle fails to perform factory reset
#9104 - (Boom) Improved ambient light sensor performance
#9142 - (Boom) "Power off audio: Outputs always on" inappropriate for Boom
#9532 - MP3 decoder chokes on files with large headers

Bug Fixes:
- #3992 - don't trigger play action when pressing play button from idle/now playing screensaver
- #8146 - During an alarm, only change line-out mode to sub-woofer if line-out is connected
- #8555 - Time displayed on Now Playing screensaver (for Boom used as alarm/radio)
- #8670 - CLI queries fail when no client is connected
- #9141 - SBR turns itself on
- #9199 - Knob should not trigger volume in idle screen saver
- #9240 - MP3::Info : ULT tag should be handled like USLT tag
- #9277 - ASX playlists containing RTSP as first URL causes error
- #9291 - 22050 Sample Rate 56k cbr mp3 does not play correctly
- #9323 - Home Server and Lame 3.98 don't work well together
- #9344 - Ensure latest font files included with plugins are used
- #9340 - never hide the Radio home menu in Default skin
- #9350 - can't change brightness on SliMP3/SB1 using the settings menu
- #9359 - Scanner aborts when finding files with 'id' tag
- #9363 - Add 224 kbps to Bitrate Limiting options
- #9367 - Alarms are not rescheduled on system time changes, including DST
- #9378 - Some podcasts do not display titles
- #9420 - Squeezecenter 7.2 does not play ALAC on Linux
- #9432 - 7.2 can crash on "new and changed music" scan
- #9455 - Transporter VU Display Switches Off when Volume Up or Down is engaged
- #9462 - xPL Plugin initializes with wrong local IP
- #9476 - Make it easier to display clock by pressing snooze button when display is dark. Show next alarm time on second press.
- #9492 - Support OPML playlist defined in a single file
- #9502 - INPUT.Text truncates valueRef param at first "0" char
- #9545 - Press and hold Pause (Stop) fails in screensaver
- #9546 - Add option to suppress scrobbling of internet radio
- #9549 - Improve reading of ID3 tags in WAV files
- #9093 - Powering off during alarm causes music to stop, start then stop again
- #9333 - Adding an album shows wrong text on player UI

Version 7.2 - 2008-08-28

International:
- Four new official translations: Danish, Suomi, Norsk, Svenska
Firmware updates:

Boom - Version 32

Initial Boom firmware.

Squeezebox 2/3 - Version 112
Transporter - Version 62
Receiver - Version 47

#3958 - Show error messages during first setup (don't go dark after 10 seconds)
#4120, #7773, #8665 - Fix crash when switching between different wireless encryption modes.
#7594 - Revert latest WOL change and learn SC address again always (this will break setups where SC is behind a wireless bridge reporting its own instead of SCs MAC address)
#8959 - Local Control when SqueezeCenter/Network Down
#9003 - Occasional loud noises when moving to a new Rhapsody track
#9099 - SB3 Factory reset - due to single key on Bose Wave Radio remote
#9157 - Rhapsody error: not a version 3 EA file (code 105)

Receiver Only

#8647 - Support WOL when pressing front button when LED is blue

Transporter Only

#9005 - RS-232 broken
#9058 - Panic due to incorrect AC line voltage measurement

Web UI
- Improved performance of web interface.
- Ask for confirmation when setting a password to prevent typos in web page protection.
- Split up Audio settings page into Audio and separate Synchronization pages
Bug Fixes:
- #7586 - FLAC.pm should be a little stricter parsing track titles from CDDB tags
- #8116 - SongScanner key defs should be in default.map
- #8443 - FLAC file with invalid embedded cue sheet isn't scanned properly
- #8689 - Missing important encodings for XML parsing
- #8704 - Seek: FFWD/REW scanner UI timer doesn't reset with each button press
- #8797 - Support for LAME 3.98 default endianness change
- #8926 - CLI interface not returning hasitems correctly for Staff Picks
- #8939 - MP3 file with invalid id3v2 data causes the scanner to crash
- #8986 - make sure iTunes/MusicIP settings are saved before audiodir, as changing audiodir automatically launches a rescan
- #9031 - Shuffle tooltip undefined
- #9065 - Windows Server 2008 and not Windows Vista
- #9112 - Last.fm settings menu is useless when no account is registered
- #9144 - Non-Default skin settings pages broken in Safari 3.1.2 on OS X
- #9168 - PluginManager fails with more than one targetPlatform in install.xml
- #9170 - xPL IR Code Broadcast Broken
Softsqueeze
- Bumped Version to 3.7b0 (eternal beta now).
- Fixed version check to last through 7.5, followed by more appropriate warning after.
- New Boom skin and remote.
Improved alarm clock functionality:
- Alarms can be set for any combination of days at a specified time, allowing weekday alarms, weekend alarms etc (#2263)
- Alarms can now be snoozed
- The time is displayed on screen during an alarm with feedback about the current alarm or snooze
- The Date Time screensaver now indicates when the next alarm will go off
- Alarms can be configured as one-off alarms that disable themselves after they go off
- Ability to quickly disable all alarms (holiday mode)
- Can choose to one volume setting for all alarms, allowing the volume to be quickly changed
- Back end:
  - The CLI alarm and alarms commands have changed! External callers will need to be updated to remain compatible
  - INPUT.Time now exits on both left and right. Plugins that use this mode will need to be updated to handle the new exit conditions.
  - New Slim::Utils::Alarm class provides easy access to alarm functionality
    - The screensaver used during an alarm is configurable (via calls into Slim::Utils::Alarm)
    - Plugins can register new playlists that can then be selected by the user as alarm playlists
    - See docs in Slim::Utils::Alarm for more details

Version 7.1 - 2008-07-28

Firmware updates:
- Squeezebox 2/3 - Version 101
  Transporter - Version 50
  Receiver - Version 36
- Transporter-specific features and fixes
Music Services:
- Support for Last.fm Radio
Seek Improvements:
- Improved FF/REW seek UI.
- Seek support for natively streamed Ogg files.
- Seek support for remote MP3 files (i.e. podcasts) on servers that support it.
- Seek support for remote WMA files on Windows Media Servers.
Default Web UI:
- SqueezeJS framework
- Show notification messages for various actions which might be delayed
- Add web GUI main menu icons for favorites
- Allow MusicIP moods and RandomPlay mixes to be saved as favorites
Player handling:
- Discover players connected to other SqueezeCenters in your local network
- Connect players to and disconnect from other SqueezeCenters or SqueezeNetwork
- Add CLI support, player and web UI
- Add way to reset player to default values
Windows installer:
- during installation check for port conflicts and blocking firewalls
- optionally remove all SC preferences, logs and registry keys to make sure a fresh install creates a working system
Bug Fixes:
- #1592 - Fast forward / rewind rework
- #2319 - Don't crossfade successive album tracks
- #3809 - No scanning (FF/RW) with Ogg
- #4402 - If music library unavailable duplicate album entries created
- #4760 - Players not doing FF/RW while synced, although display says otherwise
- #5907 - Home on breadcrumb trail in Infobrowser Settings Edit -loses edit
- #5979 - Add option to cancel a scan in progress
- #6049 - Information Browser has duplicate entries
- #6235 - Many players sync'ed: can't see names in classic/fishbone skin's status frame
- #6266 - SqueezeCenter does not stream to iPod Touch or iPhone
- #6471 - Huge thumbnails being generated in PNG format
- #6836 - lack of cue sheet support for .ogg files
- #6890 - Implement smarter RVA/track gain + SoundCheck logic
- #7068 - Fast-forward/rewind is broken on controller
- #7103 - Option to disable artwork pre-caching at scan time
- #7489 - Safari/WebKit doesn't recognize encoding returned when saving SN settings in SC
- #7497 - gototime when paused restarts play but does not unmute
- #7702 - Random Mix: powered off player turns on and starts playing by itself
- #7820 - Play doesn't cancel fast forward mode from controller
- #8003 - Playing Pandora after leaving Controller idle over night doesn't work
- #8112 - Playing a remote stream while player is off does not turn on player right away
- #8148 - Playing Sirius Internet Radio via SoftSqueeze fails on stream
- #8175 - Atom feeds may not parse properly
- #8181 - Quote symbol causes adding song(s) to playlist to fail using Fishbone
- #8192 - Toggling favorites form Songinfo page broken in non Default skins
- #8212 - Default Crossfade duration is zero
- #8248 - Use RadioTime logos in Now Playing
- #8254 - Allowed IP Addresses field validation is not accurate
- #8275 - MusicIP Mix for New Music broken
- #8276 - Trackinfo from MusicIP mix fails
- #8278 - Changing players in SC causes "Tune in URL" to play when it shouldn't
- #8332 - MusicIP error when choosing mix parameters
- #8334 - Menu does not return to HOME when switching from SN > SC
- #8344 - disable authentication if user/password are empty
- #8360 - 7.0.1 fails scanning on OSX
- #8465 - Error message when trying to update SC while scan is running.
- #8410 - Add possibility to force a character set to be used by SqueezeCenter where no such locale is available
- #8519 - Support ID32 block type in WAV files
- #8601 - WavPack files with large RIFF headers not parsed correctly
- #8622 - Box for player selection is not correctly resized after player change
- #8864 - Extended text scrolls on push/pop mode when it should not

Version 7.0.1 - 2008-05-14

Firmware updates:
- Squeezebox Classic - Version 88
  Transporter - Version 37
  Squeezebox Receiver - Version 23
- Transporter - Version 37
Music Services:
- Support for SIRIUS Internet Radio.
Squeezebox Controller:
- Fully support per device language settings
Tag Reading:
- #3727 - Unicode genres are duplicated between MP3 and FLACs
- #7782 - Use COVERART tag in Ogg files
Bug Fixes:
- #4092 - Multiple radio stations in a playlist don't work
- #4276 - Accented / special characters in cue file name
- #4361 - Albums with same name but different artists are wrongly grouped together if "Treat multi-disc sets as a single album" is set.
- #5143 - View log file from web interface
- #5339 - Music containing special characters does not appear when integrating iTunes XML on Linux
- #5584 - Add support for Mac aliases in music folder
- #5833 - log4perl error messages when scripts return to the console/shell
- #6621 - Can't store non-latin characters in preference file
- #6628 - Sync RadioTime and Last.fm prefs with SN
- #6643 - Searching for "Various Artists" Hangs SC
- #6689 - UTF-8 not rendered correctly on web browser in scan progress
- #6712 - Rebuffering (due to output-buffer underrun) should have time-limit
- #6720 - Year not removed from database when last song with that year is changed
- #6789 - Accented characters in music folder setting not accepted
- #6823 - Player name of newly attached player is empty in settings page
- #6864 - SB1 synch problems
  Please note that the original Squeezebox (Squeezebox v1) is less capable of maintaining synchronization than newer Squeezebox models. See the notes associated with this bug for more information
- #6914 - Encoding problems in Podcasts display
- #6920 - 88.2kHz 24-bit WMA displayed incorrectly
- #6928 - CLI query playlist with stream items fails
- #7053 - Tags with cyrillic characters breaks CLI
- #7061 - Power on Resume behaviour is broken when not playing at power off
- #7066 - Bad Favorites URLs can't be edited and made playable
- #7073 - Filenames with accented characters truncated when browsing
- #7089 - Items in Extras Menu are not ordered correctly
- #7092 - New players should only be given a default name with a number if there's a player without a number with the same default name
- #7286 - Scrolling through UTF-8 chars on medium font misses a couple of pixels
- #7303 - MusicIP plugin active even when disabled
- #7314 - DateTime screensaver doesn't display alarm bell for alarms on sundays
- #7351 - Mac Installer prompts to stop server error
- #7369 - Ampersand in iTunes playlists names kills those playlists
- #7376 - SBC unresponsive when coming out of sleep mode
- #7414 - Selecting favorites by typing numbers should be enabled again
- #7424 - LAME Installed Correctly shown when it's not
- #7426 - Power-on-resume does not work for Internet radio
- #7430 - XMLBrowser pagination broken for search result lists
- #7443 - Artwork doesn't show properly if each track has a different image
- #7460 - mac (Monkey's Audio) darwin binary is PPC-only
- #7465 - Strings are not updated when a plugin is updated
- #7470 - Podcast Time Played/Remaining off on various UIs
- #7478 - playlistTrack not mixable on player UI
- #7479 - Lyrics does not display correctly accented characters
- #7507 - Failure to scan dirs/files with names contaning non-latin chars
- #7509 - Changing Last.fm accounts does not work for Audioscrobbler
- #7517 - Rhapsody: Song # 200 is "Play All" in top tracks for an artist.
- #7524 - Non-blocking connect() fails on win32
- #7526 - Problem switching players in Handheld skin
- #7537 - MusicIP icon in invalid locations
- #7547 - Don't utf8 decode file paths in CUE sheets
- #7549 - No error message when selecting to transcode when decoder is not installed correctly
- #7563 - Unable to add audio urls to favorties if mime type not known
- #7574 - Problems with hebrew characters in various aspects of the product
- #7582 - Random Mix plugin no longer distinguishes between 'add' and 'play' in player UI
- #7583 - SlimServer 7.0 throws an exception when shutting down.
- #7585 - DRM track in Playlists causes scanner to quit scan
- #7610 - Playlists with . seperating words have the . converted to a space
- #7633 - server.prefs re-written every 5 min. and prevents HDD spin-down
- #7636 - CLI response when browsing XMLBrowser should include type of item
- #7643 - CLI current duration value wrong for some plugins
- #7648 - JPEG image headers truncated for some APIC frames
- #7649 - MusicIP should return info about missing player instead of empty playlist
- #7667 - Synchronize pop-up window doesn't use HTML label tags
- #7675 - new scan is not launched when needed if only iTunes or MusicIP, but no music path is defined
- #7679 - CLI search command does not respect itemsPerResponse parameter
- #7684 - CLI hasitems tag doesnt return 0 when it should
- #7685 - Unable to clear out SqueezeNetwork account info in SqueezeCenter
- #7692 - Simplify access to log files
- #7703 - Visualizer screen gets extended text stuck, won't clear
- #7739 - pcmsamplesize not set right for all remote WMA files
- #7744 - Player Plugin information menu is wrong
- #7752 - scanner won't scan folders with "foreign " characters
- #7769 - missing/wrong fields in Internet Radio Station Description on Controller when streaming to iTunes
- #7778 - Song information doesn't always show duration in web interface
- #7789 - Can't delete playlists in default and Fishbone skins
- #7791 - Web UI blocks creating playlists with illegal characters, player UI does not
- #7800 - cli_socket_accept doesn't accept() if max connections reached
- #7818 - Sleep timer + Alarm does not reset idle timer, Pandora won't play
- #7840 - does not find custom artwork.jpg files in folders that have a file name with non-latin characters
- #7881 - Ogg tag parser is broken
- #7907 - Artwork in FLAC not showing if picture type is not 3 (Cover)
- #7936 - When enabling/disabling plugins, enforced plugins are always listed as changed
- #7957 - VBRI header not read in MP3 files
- #7960 - Random Plugin Not Honouring 'ADD' or 'ADD Next'
- #7986 - Embedded Artwork Error in WMA lossless
- #7992 - Bad query used for CLI 'artists in genre' queries
- #8007 - Display Settings not correct for SB3
- #8036 - CLI: albums query hangs sometimes with "a" tags
- #8069 - Title Format pref not shown for stream.mp3 clients
- #8101 - Rhapsody track search, pick "All Songs", plays wrong tracks.

Version 7.0 - 2008-03-03

General:
- Renamed SlimServer to SqueezeCenter
Firmware updates:
- Use new OpenDNS servers if default DNS servers fail, when connecting to SN
- Squeezebox 2 - Version 86
- Squeezebox 2 - Version 84
- Squeezebox 2 - Version 83
- Transporter - Version 36
- Transporter - Version 34
- Transporter - Version 33
File Formats:
- WavPack is now supported.
Internationalization:
- Updated official translations (EN, DE, ES, FR, IT, NL)
- Updated Danish translations from Bjørn Haagensen
Internet Radio/Music on Demand:
- Support for Slacker
- Support for Pandora
- Support for Rhapsody Direct
- Support for MP3tunes
- Last.fm AudioScrobbler is now included.
SqueezeNetwork:
- Preferences integration - preferences for SqueezeCenter and SqueezeNetwork are synchronized.
- View and switch players that are connected to SqueezeNetwork.
Skins:
- Brand new default skin
- Old Default skin renamed to Classic
- Fishbone: ability to toggle display of album text in gallery view
- Fishbone: drag n drop playlist manipulation
- Classic & Fishbone: popup album track list when clicking on album art
- Classic & Fishbone: browse multiple levels with 'tree' view (icon on left of browse items)
- unsupported and unmaintained skins are no longer part of the distribution
Performance:
- #259 - Syncing of multiple players has been greatly improved. Players are now able to stay in sync with each other even in the face of poor network conditions or while playing long radio streams.
Player UI:
- Suppress "Play All" at top level browse menus
- Play other songs on album feature is now a per-player setting - default is to use the older server preference if no player preference has been chosen yet
- Repeated pressing of browse or search button will now toggle through the list of options respectively
Platform Support:
- Logging/Debugging has been overhauled. We now use Log::Log4perl
- Logging/Debugging is now multi-level and persistent across server restarts.
Tag Reading:
- Some fixes to WMA tag reading
- Browse Music Folder can add album covers in new folders
- Ape tags now reported as the ID3 version if found
Plugins:
- Pre-Distributed plugins now stored in Slim/Plugin
- Third party plugins require rewrite to new API
- Third party plugins only to be installed in Plugins folder
CLI API:
- Browse Music Folder
- Browse filesystems from the server's point of view
- Rescan progress
- Please see the documentation in docs/cli-api.html for details, in particular about API changes that may impact your client
Bug Fixes:
- #223 - add WavPack support
- #1524 - make live search skinnable
- #3351 - Composers included in Artist count when browsing by Genre
- #3548 - Cycle through menu by pressing the Search/Browse buttons
- #4104 - link to FAQ under help shouldn't put ?player=[MACADDY] at end of url
- #4137 - Sort the list of radios returned by radios query
- #4188 - CUE-sheet can't be browsed in player, OK in web interface
- #4259 - Fishbone never refreshes playlist
- #4293 - Move to using Log::Log4perl to replace --d_* debugging.
- #4338 - MusicMagic => MusicIP
- #4351 - change to idle screensaver when playback stops during Now Playing" screensaver.
- #4405 - Rhapsody/Upnp browse only works on Default skin
- #4408 - MoodLogic errors with MoodLogic disabled
- #4409 - All fonts lost
- #4466 - Wrong sorting order in "browse songs" list at the player
- #4421 - Pressing play when displaying a track title in the playlist plays Track 1
- #4485 - Artwork files are not picked up in unicode-named folders
- #4498 - Advanced search for compilation album shows all tracks twice
- #4507 - Touch skin needs to work in IE
- #4513 - SqueezeCenter should ignore the iTunes COMMENTs: ITUNPGAP & ITUNSMPB
- #4516 - Enabling Playlists Breaks Search Results
- #4579 - Bonjour fails to initialize
- #4595 - CLI support for Browse music folder
- #4598 - Better CLI scanner access
- #4625 - artists cli query does not always return an artist for tracks in compilations
- #4629 - For albums with ALBUMARTIST, track artists don't have any albums listed when searching for track artists from the player UI
- #4678 - Localize DateTime screensaver
- #4707 - Forcing transcode to MP3 results in a bit rate of 0
- #4730 - Echo from CLI when next song in playlist
- #4822 - Create a new playlist via CLI
- #4849 - Default time display should not include seconds
- #4873 - Error creating INI entry in Logitech.url
- #4877 - Shorten files option in SqueezeCenter not needed any more
- #4922 - When PlayList is empty, Download brings up a blank web page and gets stuck there
- #4927 - ID3v2.4 date tags ignored
- #4941 - New music limit not working
- #4947 - Search does not search '0'
- #4955 - items per page preference off by 1
- #5075 - Upgrade flac binary to latest version (1.2.1)
- #5080 - Live search doesn't display artist with albums
- #5093 - Nokia770 skin on Nokia N800 shows a vertical scroll bar and the page footer moves bottom of the page when scrolling
- #5112 - Allow multiple plugins to register buttons in same mode
- #5159 - Album thumbnail lost when music file mtime changes
- #5160 - Debian plugins path needs updating after Slim/Plugin/* reorg
- #5165 - Option not to filter genres at album and track level doesn't work
- #5193 - Restore CSRF protection. Patch by Peter Watkins
- #5197 - I18n: Strange shortcut links in Artist view.
- #5217 - First file in iTunes library is not scanned into SlimServer
- #5218 - iTunes playlists scanned but not visible in interface
- #5221 - Set Player block/unblock mode through CLI command
- #5255 - CLI muting
- #5287 - Artist link from basic search results ignores gallery setting
- #5296 - MUSICBRAINZ_SORTNAME - not supported but in code?
- #5324 - SqueezeCenter should run with group permissions from /etc/groups
- #5432 - Random mix plugin no longer at menu top level
- #5443 - Difficult specifying desired sort order (national characters)
- #5444 - Random Mix status doesn't update in non-continuous mode
- #5607 - Debugging settings not shown after restart
- #5610 - ResetDisplay method failed
- #5831 - APE tag processing isn't listed in the ID3 tag version
- #5838 - returning bad data to illogical request
- #5839 - Song order for addalbum makes no sense
- #5842 - Can't play all songs from favorites
- #5858 - Cookies on stream requests
- #5871 - Numeric key selection not correct within Browse New Music
- #5902 - Alarm triggers on all players / displays on all players
- #5944 - No "Added to playlist" message when an album is picked from the Music Folder browser
- #5973 - Slimserver cannot read Genre tag above numeric ID 79 for AIFF files.
- #6163 - no way for 3rd party plugins to add custom icons
- #6167 - Random Mix "recently played songs" value can not be set to zero.
- #6294 - Track title is incorrect when album is a whole-CD flac file with cuesheet and track is in a playlist
- #6507 - ALBUMARTIST tag causes ARTISTSORT tags to be lost
- #3332 - Audio plays back at 44.1 KHz with 48Khz FLAC's when decompressing at server
- #4098 - Wrong time after scanning through a file / scanning short songs jumps to next track
- #4391 - Softsqueeze cannot play certain FLAC files
- #4760 - Players not doing FF/RW while synced
- #5210 - Now Playing & Time Incorrect On Synced Players with RandomPlay
- #5271 - 7.0a1 does not play WAV file of 16 bits
- #5631 - Problem with WMA files read from a UPnP media server
- #6508 - Occasional songs freeze with no sound
- #6539 - Sync via player UI breaks sometimes
- #6666 - Synchronisation offset when unpausing if player has volume set to 0