SnapCast v0.4.1

Version 0.4.1

General

• Debian packages (.deb) are linked statically against libgcc and libstdc++ to improve compatibility

Snapcast v0.5.0-beta-2

Version 0.5.0-beta-2

Features

• Remote control API (JSON)
  • Added version information
  • Stream playing state (unknown, idle, playing, inactive) (Issue #34)
• Android client: manually configure snapserver host name
• Android client compatibility improved: armeabi and armeabi-v7 binaries
• Android client: configurable latency
• Improved compatibility to Mopidy (GStreamer) (Issue #23)

Bugfixes

• Android client: fixed "hide offline" on start
• Store config in /var/lib/snapcast/ when running as daemon (Issue #33)

General

• README.md: Added resampling command to the Mopidy section (Issue #32)

Snapcast v0.5.0-beta-1

Version 0.5.0-beta-1

Features

• Remote control API (JSON)
  • Get server status, get streams, get active clients, ...
  • Assign volume, assign stream, rename client, ...
• Android port of the Snapclient with a remote control app (requires API level 16, Android 4.1)
• Multiple streams ("zones") can be configured using -s, --stream
  The stream is configured by an URI: path, name, codec, sample format, ...
  E.g. pipe:///tmp/snapfifo?name=Radio&sampleformat=48000:16:2&codec=flac
  or file:///home/user/some_pcm_file.wav?name=file
• Added .default file for the service in /etc/default/snapserver and /etc/default/snapclient.
  Default program options should be configured here (e.g. streams)

Bugfixes

• Pipe reader recovers if the pipe has been reopened

General

• SnapCast is renamed to Snapcast
  • SnapClient => Snapclient
  • SnapServer => Snapserver
• Changed default sample rate to 48kHz. The sample rate can be configured per stream -s "pipe:///tmp/snapfifo?name=default&sampleformat=44100:16:2. The default can be changed with --sampleformat 44100:16:2
• Snapcast protocol:
  Less messaging: SampleFormat, Command, Ack, String, not yet final
• Removed dependency to boost

SnapCast v0.4.0

Version 0.4.0

Features

• Debian packages (.deb) for amd64 and armhf
• Added man pages

Bugfixes

• Snapserver and Snapclient are started as daemon on systemd systems (e.g. ARCH, Debian Jessie)

General

• Snapserver is started with normal process priority (changed nice from -3 to 0)

SnapCast v0.3.4

Version 0.3.4

Bugfixes

• Fix synchronization bug in FLAC decoder that could cause audible dropouts

SnapCast v0.3.3

Version 0.3.3

Bugfixes

• Fix Segfault when ALSA device has no description

SnapCast v0.3.2

Version 0.3.2

General

• Makefile uses CXX instead of CC to invoke the c++ compiler

Bugfixes

• Time calculation for PCM chunk play-out was wrong on some gcc versions

SnapCast v0.3.1

Version 0.3.1

General

• Improved stability over WiFi by avoiding simultaneous reads/writes on the socket connection

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in avahi browser

SnapCast v0.3.0

Version 0.3.0

Features

• Configurable codec options. Run snapserver -c [flac|ogg|pcm]:? to get supported options for the codec
• Configurable buffer size for the pipe reader (default 20ms, was 50ms before)
• Process priority can be changed as argument to the daemon option -d<prio>. Default priority is -3

Bugfixes

• Fixed deadlock in logger
• Fixed occasional timeouts for client to server requests (e.g. time sync commands)
• Client didn't connect to a local server if the loopback device is the only device with an address

General

• Code clean up
• Refactored encoding for lower latency

SnapCast v0.2.1

Version 0.2.1

Features

• Arch Linux compatibility