Mpd Client For Mac

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Compiling for Windows¶

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Even though it does not “feel” like a Windows application, MPD works well under Windows. Its build process follows the “Linux style” and may seem awkward for Windows people (who are not used to compiling their software, anyway).

Basically, there are two ways to compile MPD for Windows:

  • Build as described above: with meson andninja. To cross-compile from Linux, you need a Mesoncross file.

    The remaining difficulty is installing all the external libraries.And MPD usually needs many, making this method cumbersomefor the casual user.

  • Build on Linux for Windows using MPD’s library build script.

Ncmpcpp is an mpd client for Mpd with a UI interface similar to the one on ncmpc. It also has some good features such as support for regular expressions for library searches, extended song format, items filtering, the ability to sort playlists, and a local filesystem browser. MPD Now Playing is a simple client plasmoid for the Music Player Daemon. Downloads: 6 This Week Last Update: 2021-05-01 See Project. Linux (or Mac OS X) with.

This section is about the latter.

You need:

  • Meson 0.49.0 and Ninja

  • cmake

  • pkg-config

  • quilt

Just like with the native build, unpack the MPD sourcetarball and change into the directory. Then, instead ofmeson, type:

This downloads various library sources, and then configures and buildsMPD (for x64; to build a 32 bit binary, pass--32). The resulting EXE files is linked statically, i.e. itcontains all the libraries already and you do not need carry DLLsaround. It is large, but easy to use. If you wish to have a smallmpd.exe with DLLs, you need to compile manually, without thebuild.py script.

ncmpcpp – featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc

Main features:

  • tag editor
  • playlist editor
  • easy to use search engine
  • media library
  • music visualizer
  • ability to fetch artist info from last.fm
  • new display mode
  • alternative user interface
  • ability to browse and add files from outside of MPD music directory

Mpd Client For Mac

…and a lot more minor functions.

Dependencies:

  • curl library (for fetching lyrics and last.fm data)
  • fftw library (optional, required for frequency spectrum music visualization mode)
  • tag library (optional, required for tag editing)
Mpd client

Known issues:

Mpd Music Server

  • No full support for handling encodings other than UTF-8.

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Release Notes:

Mpd Linux

  • ncmpcpp-0.9.2 (2021-01-24)
    • Revert suppression of output of all external commands as that makes e.g album art addons no longer work.
    • Gracefully handle failures when asking for a password.
  • ncmpcpp-0.9.1 (2020-12-23)
    • Add support for fetching lyrics from musixmatch.com.
    • Fix intermittent failures of the Genius fetcher.
    • Fix crash on startup with Visualizer as the initial screen.
    • Fix crash on startup with Browser as the initial screen.
    • Show the Visualizer immediately if it’s the initial screen.
    • Draw a separator between albums with the same name, but a different artist.
    • Suppress output of all external commands.
    • Consider mouse support when pausing and unpausing curses interface.
    • Reduce CPU usage of the frequency spectrum visualizer.
    • Enable Link Time Optimization by default.
    • Enable full sorting of items in the local browser if it’s not.
    • Bind ‘Play’ to Backspace by default.
    • Fix fetching information about artists from last.fm.
  • ncmpcpp-0.9 (2020-12-20)
    • Fix various Mopidy specific bugs.
    • Add ‘run_external_console_command’ action for running terminal applications.
    • Pass lyrics filename in single quotes to shell.
    • Add support for fetching lyrics from zeneszoveg.hu.
    • Add ‘Play’ action for starting playback in stopped state.
    • Properly expand ‘~’ in mpd_host when preceded by a password.
    • Add support for ‘message_delay_time’ equal to 0.
    • Add support for album only view in the Media Library.
    • Add ‘random_exclude_pattern’ option to a configuration file.
    • Add ‘connected_message_on_startup’ option to a configuration file.
    • Fix compilation with GCC 10.
    • Remove Lyricwiki fetcher as the site closed down.
    • Remove Lyricsmania fetcher as it no longer works.
    • Fix Genius and Tekstowo fetchers.
    • Add dedicated ‘Load’ action for loading playlists.
    • Add ‘media_library_hide_album_dates’ option to a configuration file.
    • Improve look of the frequency spectrum visualizer.
    • Add ‘visualizer_spectrum_smooth_look’, ‘visualizer_spectrum_dft_size’, ‘visualizer_spectrum_gain’, ‘visualizer_spectrum_hz_min’ and ‘visualizer_spectrum_hz_max’ options to a configuration file for controlling the look of the new spectrum visualizer.
    • Add ‘visualizer_autoscale’ option to a configuration file.
    • Add ‘visualizer_fps’ option to a configuration file (60 by default).
    • Allow for editing multiple titles in the Tag Editor.
    • Support gstreamer’s udpsink as a data source for visualization (Mopidy).
    • Deprecate ‘visualizer_fifo_path’ in favor of ‘visualizer_data_source’.
    • Don’t run volume changing actions if there is no mixer.
    • Do not loop after sending a database update command to Mopidy.
    • Deprecate ‘visualizer_sync_interval’ configuration option.
    • Deprecate ‘noop’ value of ‘browser_sort_mode’ in favor of ‘none’.
    • Add ‘type’ value of ‘browser_sort_mode’ (set by default).
    • Prefer ‘$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ncmpcpp’ as a folder with configuration.
  • ncmpcpp-0.8.2 (2018-04-11)
    • Help screen: fixed display of EoF keycode
    • Fixed possible integer overflow when resizing screen
    • Fixed fetching lyrics from lyricsmania.com, metrolyrics.com and sing365.com
    • Search engine now properly interacts with filtering
    • Fixed redraw of separator after interface switch while MPD was stopped
    • Reset position of a window when fetching lyrics
    • Fixed compilation with ICU >= 61
  • ncmpcpp-0.8.1 (2017-10-11)
    • Setting ‘colors_enabled’ to ‘no’ no longer results in a crash.
    • Using ‘–quiet’ command line argument no longer results in a crash.
    • If songs in media library have no track numbers, sort them by their display format.
    • Fixed a situation in which songs added to playlist from media library or playlist editor screens would not be immediately marked as such.
    • Do not start prompt with the current search constraint when applying a new one.
  • ncmpcpp-0.8 (2017-05-21)
    • Configuration variable ‘execute_on_player_state_change’ was added.
    • Support for controlling whether ncmpcpp should display multiple tags as-is or make an effort to hide duplicate values (show_duplicate_tags configuration variable, enabled by default).
    • Support for filtering of lists was brought back from the dead.
    • Require C++14 compatible compiler during compilation.
    • Lyrics from files containing DOS line endings now load properly on Linux.
    • Added support for fetching lyrics from genius.com.
    • Added support for fetching lyrics from tekstowo.pl.
    • The list of lyrics fetchers can now be set via configuration file.
    • Lyrics can now be fetched for songs with no tags.
    • libcurl dependency is no longer optional.
    • When an attempt to write tags fails, show detailed error message.
    • Support for fetching lyrics for selected items in background was added.
    • Application will now exit if stdin is closed.
    • Configuration variable ‘visualizer_sample_multiplier’ was deprecated and will be removed in 0.9.
    • Wide character version of ncurses is now required.
    • Added ‘statusbar_time_color’ and ‘player_state_color’ configuration variables for further customization of statusbar.
    • Setting foreground color only now preserves current background color.
    • Format information can now be attached to selected color variables in the configuration file. Because of that variable ‘progressbar_boldness’ is now deprecated in favor of extended ‘progressbar_color’ and ‘progressbar_elapsed_color’ (for more information see example configuration file).
    • Lyrics and last_fm can now be startup screens and are lockable.
    • Action ‘update_environment’ now also synchronizes status with MPD.
    • Fixed an issue that could cause some MPD events to be missed.
    • Action ‘jump_to_playing_song’ is not runnable now if there is no playing song.
    • Fixed fetching artist info in language other than English.
    • Added test that checks if lyrics fetchers work (available via command line parameter –test-lyrics-fetchers).
    • Fixed fetching lyrics from justsomelyrics.com.
    • Added support for fetching lyrics from jah-lyrics.com and plyrics.com.
    • Seek immediately after invoking appropriate action once.
    • Added support for locating current song in playlist editor.
    • Disable autocenter mode while searching and filtering.
    • Added ‘–quiet’ comand line argument that supresses messages shown at startup.
    • Multiple songs in Media library are now added to playlist in the same order they are displayed.
    • Added configuration option ‘media_library_albums_split_by_date’ that determines whether albums in media library should be split by date.
    • Added configuration option ‘ignore_diacritics’ that allows for ignoring diacritics while searching (boost compiled with ICU support is required).
    • Added support for reading multiple bindings files (the ones in ~/.ncmpcpp/bindings and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ncmpcpp/bindings are read by default).
    • ‘main_window_highlight_color’ and ‘active_column_color’ configuration options are now deprecated in favor of ‘current_item_prefix’/’current_item_suffix’ and ‘current_item_inactive_column_prefix’/’current_item_inactive_column_suffix’ (note that now highlight of inactive column is customizable instead of the active one in presence of multiple columns).
  • ncmpcpp-0.7.7 (2016-10-31)
    • Fixed compilation on 32bit platforms.
  • ncmpcpp-0.7.6 (2016-10-30)
    • Fixed assertion failure on trying to search backwards in an empty list.
    • Updated installation instructions in INSTALL file.
    • Make sure that stream of random numbers is not deterministic.
    • Opening playlist editor when there is no MPD playlists directory no longer freezes the application.
    • Added info about behavior of MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT environment variables to man page.
    • Tilde will now be expanded to home directory in visualizer_fifo_path, execute_on_song_change and external_editor configuration variables.
    • Fixed lyricwiki and justsomelyrics fetchers.
  • ncmpcpp-0.7.5 (2016-08-17)
    • Action chains can be now used for seeking.
    • Fixed fetching artist info from last.fm.
    • Default value of regular_expressions was changed from ‘basic’ to ‘perl’ to work around boost issue (#12222).
    • Fixed crash occuring when searching backward in an empty list.
  • ncmpcpp-0.7.4 (2016-04-17)
    • Fetching lyrics from lyricwiki.org was fixed.
    • Configure script now continues without errors if ICU library was not found.
  • ncmpcpp-0.7.3 (2016-01-20)
    • Home and End keys are now recognized in a few specific terminal emulators.
  • ncmpcpp-0.7.2 (2016-01-16)
    • Attempt to add non-song item to playlist from search engine doesn’t trigger assertion failure anymore.
    • Fetching lyrics from metrolyrics.com was fixed.
    • Alternative UI separator color is now respected regardless of the header_visibility flag.
  • ncmpcpp-0.7.1 (2016-01-01)
    • Selected songs in media library can now be added to playlists.
    • Confirmation before shuffling a playlist can now be disabled.
  • ncmpcpp-0.7 (2015-11-22)
    • Playlist sorting dialog now contains ‘Album artist’ option.
    • Default keybindings were corrected to allow tag edition in the right column of tag editor.
    • Mouse is properly kept disabled if it was disabled in the configuration file.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6.8 (2015-11-11)
    • Application is now compatible with MPD >= 0.20.
    • Check for readline library was fixed.
  • ncmpcpp-0.7_beta1 (2015-11-04)
    • Visualizer has now support for multiple colors (visualizer_color configuration variable takes the list of colors to be used).
    • Visualizer has now support for two more modes: sound wave filled and sound ellipse.
    • Visualizer’s spectrum mode now scales better along with window’s width.
    • It is now possible to abort the current action using Ctrl-C or Ctrl-G in prompt mode. As a result, empty value is no longer a special value that aborts most of the actions.
    • Directories and playlists in browser can now be sorted by modification time.
    • ~ is now expanded to home directory in mpd_host configuration variable.
    • It is now possible to define startup slave screen using -S/–slave-screen command line option or startup_slave_screen configuration variable.
    • List filtering has been removed due to the major part of its functionality overlapping with find forward/backward and obscure bugs.
    • Find backward/forward function is now incremental.
    • Support for 256 colors and customization of background colors has been added.
    • Multiple configuration files via command line arguments are now accepted. In addition, by default ncmpcpp attempts to read both $HOME/.ncmpcpp/config and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ncmpcpp/config (in this order).
    • Support for PDCurses has been removed due to the library being unmaintained and buggy.
    • Current MPD host may now be shown in playlist (playlist_show_mpd_host configuration variable, disabled by default).
    • Random album artists can now be added to the playlist.
    • Case insensitive searching is now Unicode aware as long as boost was compiled with ICU support.
    • Searching with regular expressions is now enabled by default.
    • Support for the Perl regular expression syntax was added.
    • BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX configure variable is now empty by default.
    • Shuffle function now shuffles only selected range if selection in playlist is active.
    • NCurses terminal sequence escaping is no longer used as it’s not accurate enough.
    • Selecting items no longer depends on space mode and is bound by default to Insert key.
    • Support for Alt, Ctrl and Shift modifiers as well as Escape key was added.
    • Action that updates the environment can now be used in bindings configuration file.
    • Monolithic ‘press_space’ action was split into ‘add_item_to_playlist’, ‘toggle_lyrics_update_on_song_change’ and ‘toggle_visualization_type’.
    • Monolithic ‘press_enter’ action was split into ‘enter_directory’, ‘play_item’, run_action’ and ‘toggle_output’.
    • Sorting actions were rebound to Ctrl-S.
    • Support for range selection was added (bound to Ctrl-V by default). In addition, sorting, reversing and shuffling items in playlist now works on ranges.
    • Support for selecting found items was added (bound to Ctrl-_ by default).
    • Tracks in media library are now properly sorted for track numbers greater than 99.
    • Value of ‘visualizer_sync_interval’ is now restricted to be greater than 9.
    • Output of the visualizer now scales automatically as long as ‘visualizer_sample_multiplier’ is set to 1.
    • Command line switch that prints current song to the standard output is available once again.
    • Defined action chains are now shown in help screen.
    • Action chains for selecting an item and scrolling up/down are now bound to Shift-Up and Shift-Down respectively.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6.7 (2015-09-12)
    • Fetching artist info from last.fm was fixed.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6.6 (2015-09-07)
    • A typo in the example configuration file was fixed.
    • Fetching lyrics from lyricwiki.com was fixed.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6.5 (2015-07-05)
    • Description of mouse wheel usage on volume is now correct.
    • Configure script now fails if either readline or pthread specific headers are not present.
    • Searching in text fields now respects regular expression configuration.
    • When numbering tracks in tag editor all the other track tags are discarded.
    • Xiph tag DESCRIPTION is now rewritten as COMMENT when updating tags.
    • Possible access of already freed memory when downloading artist info is fixed.
    • Name of an item is now displayed correctly if present.
    • Assertion failure when resizing terminal window with no active MPD connection is fixed.
    • Lyrics fetchers were updated to work with sites that changed their HTML structure.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6.4 (2015-05-02)
    • Fix title of a pop-up which shows during adding selected items to the current playlist.
    • Correctly deal with leading separator while parsing filenames in tag editor.
    • Fix initial incorrect window size that was occuring in some cases.
    • Unknown and invalid configuration options can now be ignored using command line option ‘ignore-config-errors’.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6.3 (2015-03-02)
    • Fix floating point exception when adding a specific number of random items.
    • Passwords are no longer added to the input history.
    • It is now possible to put more than one specific flag consecutively in formats.
    • Bash completion file was removed as it no longer works.
    • Description of available configuration options in man page was updated.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6.2 (2014-12-13)
    • Delete key now aditionally binds by default to action that deletes files in browser.
    • Fix incremental seeking so that it doesn’t reset after 30 seconds.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6.1 (2014-11-06)
    • Comment tag is now properly written to mp3 files.
    • Only ID3v2.4 tags are now saved to mp3 files.
    • Mouse scrolling with newer ncurses API now works properly.
    • Adding songs from an album in media library now works properly with fetch delay.
    • Adding songs from a playlist in playlist editor now works properly with fetch delay.
    • Trying to fetch lyrics from an empty list doesn’t crash the application anymore.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6 (2014-10-25)
    • Feature ‘locate song’ no more has a chance to crash the program.
    • Following lyrics of current song now works properly with consume mode active.
    • Deletion of empty playlists in playlist editor now works properly.
    • Toggling consume mode with crossfade mode active displays proper info.
    • Support for regular expressions works properly now.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6_beta5 (2014-10-04)
    • Corrupted tags no longer cause assertion failures.
    • MPD connection attempts are now made at most once per second.
    • Deletion of playlists in both browser and playlist editor is now properly handled.
    • Various actions no longer cause the program to crash when invoked with empty playlist.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6_beta4 (2014-09-19)
    • Jumping to current song in playlist doesn’t trigger assertion failures anymore.
    • Readline’s completion feature is now properly disabled.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6_beta3 (2014-09-14)
    • Handling of server events has been improved.
    • Readline now ignores escape key.
    • Cropping a playlist now works only if its length is bigger than 1.
    • Browser and media library sorting now works properly with filtering.
    • Compilation with boost-1.56 has been fixed.
    • Configuration option visualizer_type now accepts “spectrum” value.
    • Configuration option autocenter_mode is now properly read.
    • Configuration option visualizer_sample_multiplier now accepts all positive numbers.
    • Documentation was updated to reflect the changes.
    • Mouse event handling in media library now works properly.
    • ncmpcpp now works properly with password protected server.
    • Data fetching delay in media library and playlist editor is now optional.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6_beta2 (2014-09-03)
    • Fixed the issue that prevented MPD flags toggling from working properly.
    • Song change event is now properly handled after song ends with consume flag active.
    • ncmpcpp now operates in raw terminal mode and ignores SIGINT.
    • Separators between columns in media library, playlist editor and tag editor are now reliably colored.
    • Build failures due to the missing include are now fixed.
    • Playlist cropping now works as expected if no item is selected.
  • ncmpcpp-0.6_beta1 (2014-09-03)
    • Support for polling communication mode has been removed. Additionally, MPD version >= 0.16 is required.
    • Keybinding system has been redesigned: “keys” file is now deprecated; “bindings” file is used instead. It has support for many features, including binding to non-ascii characters and macros.
    • Support for readline library was added.
    • Browser has support for custom sort format.
    • Playlist has support for MPD priorities.
    • Media library can be sorted by modification time.
    • Visualizer’s frequency spectrum was adjusted to look more pleasant.
    • Broken compatibility of various actions with filtered lists has been corrected.
    • Tons of other small changes and improvements were made.
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.10 (2012-04-01)
    • fix compilation with gcc 4.7
    • fix building without curl support
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.9 (2012-03-17)
    • new feature: support for fetching lyrics for currently playing song in background
    • new feature: support for stereo visualization
    • new feature: support for merging screens together
    • playlist editor: add support for columns display mode
    • settings: provide a way to use alternative location for configuration file
    • settings: make characters used in visualizer customizable
    • lyrics fetcher: add support for lololyrics.com
    • various bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.8 (2011-10-11)
    • lyrics fetcher: add support for justsomelyrics.com
    • add command line switch -s/–screen for switching screen at startup
    • add proper support for asx/cue/m3u/pls/xspf playlists
    • bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.7 (2011-04-21)
    • convert input path to utf8 before calling ‘add’ command
    • extras: add program that copies Artist to AlbumArtist for mp3/ogg/flac files
    • lyrics fetcher: add support for lyricsvip.com
    • lyrics fetcher: skip lyricwiki if there’s licence restriction on lyrics
    • tag editor: do not convert filenames back to utf8 while reading files using taglib
    • search engine: fix error occuring while trying to select first album in results
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.6 (2011-01-02)
    • settings: make displaying ’empty tag’ entry optional
    • bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.5 (2010-08-04)
    • new feature: select album around cursor
    • new feature: ‘replay’ function
    • fixed feature: display separators between albums
    • playlist: support for adding last.fm streams
    • browser: support for operations on m3u playlists not created by MPD
    • browser: support for deleting group of selected items
    • media library: show songs with primary tag unspecified
    • lyrics: new fetching system
    • lyrics: support for storing lyrics in song’s directory
    • artist info: support for preffered language
    • settings: support for custom visualization color
    • settings: support for ’empty’ part of progressbar in progressbar_look
    • settings: new config option: titles_visibility
    • song format: support for limiting maximal length of a tag
    • a lot of minor fixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.4 (2010-06-03)
    • new feature: toggle bitrate visibility at runtime
    • new feature: locate song in tag editor
    • new feature: separators between albums in playlist
    • new feature: customizable columns’ names
    • new feature: support for multiple tag types in one column
    • media library: support for “All tracks” option in middlle column
    • playlist: shorten units’ names displayed in statusbar
    • browser: critical bugfix in feature “remove directory physically from hdd”
    • a few other bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.3 (2010-04-04)
    • new feature: new movement keys: {Up,Down}{Album,Artist}
    • new feature: make displaying volume level in statusbar optional
    • new feature: jump from browser to playlist editor
    • bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.2 (2010-02-26)
    • bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.5.1 (2010-02-15)
    • new feature: customizable startup screen
    • new feature: locate song in media library
    • new feature: support for built-in mpd searching in search engine
    • new feature: support for adding random artists/albums to playlist
    • new feature: support for album artist tag
    • new feature: support for switching between user-defined sequence of screens
    • new feature: discard column colors if item is selected (optional)
    • new feature: support for adding tracks to playlist after highlighted item
    • make displaying dates of albums in media library optional
    • several bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.5 (2009-12-31)
    • bash completion support
    • libmpdclient2 support
    • “idle” command support
    • new screen: mpd server info
    • new feature: sort songs in browser by mtime
    • new feature: lyrics “refreshing”
    • new feature: toggle replay gain mode
    • new feature: support for centered cursor
    • new feature: add selected items to playlist at given position
    • playlist: support for range sort/reverse
    • tag editor: support for numerating tracks using xx/xx format
    • a lot of minor fixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.4.1 (2009-10-03)
    • support for writing performer, composer and disc tags into ogg and flac files
    • support for custom prefix/suffix of now playing song
    • support for system charset encoding autodetection
    • support for underlined text
    • optimizations and bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.4 (2009-09-09)
    • new screen: music visualizer with sound wave/frequency spectrum modes
    • new feature: alternative user interface
    • new feature: command line switch for displaying now playing song
    • new feature: support for fixed size and/or right aligned columns
    • new feature: display bitrate of current song in statusbar (optional)
    • new feature: display remaining time of current song instead of elapsed (optional)
    • new feature: jump to now playing song at start (enabled by default)
    • new feature: additional attributes for columns
    • song format: support for nested braces
    • support for colors in song_status_format
    • customizable progressbar look
    • mouse support for additional windows
    • optional user prompting before clearing main playlist
    • track and year tag are not limited to numbers anymore if mp3 files are edited
    • marker for full filename (F) has been replaced with directory (D)
    • a lot of other minor improvements and bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.3.5 (2009-06-24)
    • new feature: custom command execution on song change
    • new feature: allow for physical files and directories deletion
    • new feature: add local directories recursively
    • new feature: add random songs to playlist
    • new feature: mouse support
    • new screen: outputs
    • text scrolling in header was made optional
    • some bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.3.4 (2009-05-19)
    • new feature: search in help, lyrics and info screen
    • new feature: two columns view in media library
    • new feature: input box history
    • make displaying hidden files in local browser optional
    • bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.3.3 (2009-04-02)
    • new feature: cyclic scrolling
    • support for single mode (requires >=mpd-0.15_alpha*)
    • support for consume mode (requires >=mpd-0.15_alpha*)
    • support for pdcurses library
    • support for WIN32
    • improvements and bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.3.2 (2009-03-17)
    • new feature: locate currently playing song in browser
    • new feature: stop playing after current song
    • new feature: move item(s) in playlist to actual cursor’s position
    • new feature: reverse playlist’s order
    • support for external console editor
    • support for multiple composer, performer and disc tags
    • support for basic and extended regular expressions
    • make blocking search constraints after succesful searching optional
    • improved searching in screens
    • minor improvements and bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.3.1 (2009-02-23)
    • support for columns in browser and search engine
    • support for lyricsplugin database
    • support for any tag in search engine
    • support for ignoring leading “the” word while sorting (optional)
    • new feature: apply filter to screen (Ctrl-F by default)
    • new feature: playlist sorting (Ctrl-V by default)
    • new feature: open lyrics in external editor
    • other minor improvements and bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.3 (2009-01-22)
    • general core rewrite
    • new screen – clock
    • support for asian wide characters
    • support for non-utf8 encodings
    • a lot of bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.2.5 (2008-12-05)
    • support for unix domain sockets
    • support for adding to playlist files outside mpd music directory (requires mpd >= 0.14_alpha*)
    • support for browsing local directories tree (requires mpd >= 0.14_alpha*)
    • support for searching in current playlist
    • many bugfixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.2.4 (2008-10-12)
    • fixed bug with not null terminated strings on mac os x
    • support for renaming files in tiny tag editor
    • support for editing composer, performer and disc tag in mp3 files
    • support for user defined base seek time
    • support for user defined tag type in left column of media library
    • support for user defined display format in album column of media library
    • support for basic mpc commands and command line arguments
    • adding items to playlist can be done like in ncmpc
    • fetching lyrics and artist’s info doesn’t lock ncmpcpp anymore
    • changed place of storing config files
    • list of recently used patterns in tag editor is now remembered
    • other minor fixes and improvements
  • ncmpcpp-0.2.3 (2008-09-20)
    • new screen – complex tag editor (with albums/directories view)
    • brand new song info screen (old one removed)
    • support for renaming files and directories
    • support for reading tags from filename
    • support for editing artist and album in media library
    • support for playlist renaming
    • support for following lyrics of now playing song
    • support for fetching artist’s info from last.fm
    • fixed compilation for Mac OS X and *BSD
    • fixed compilation for older gcc versions
    • extended configuration (e.g. all colors can be user-defined)
    • ‘repeat one song’ mode works with random mode now
    • incremental seeking (old behaviour is still available through config)
    • a bunch of fixes and improvements
  • ncmpcpp-0.2.2 (2008-09-05)
    • new screen – playlist editor
    • new playlist view – columns
    • playlist view switcher added (key ‘p’ by default)
    • find function modes added (wrapped/normal, switch is ‘w’ by default)
    • albums in media library sorted by year (and it’s also displayed)
    • multiple items selection support and related functions added
    • playlists management support
    • new function – “go to dir containing selected song” (key ‘G’ by default)
    • moving items improved
    • lots of minor fixes
  • ncmpcpp-0.2.1 (2008-08-27)
    • support for composer, performer and disc tag
    • customizable keybindings
    • “add” option added
    • example config files are installed automatically now
    • “repeat one song” mode added (works only if ncmpcpp is running)
    • minor fixes, improvements etc.
  • ncmpcpp-0.2 (2008-08-20)
    • libmpd dependency dropped
    • pkgconfig is not needed anymore
    • ncmpcpp now shows more info if it cannot connect to mpd
    • proper handling for mpd password added
    • if ncmpcpp lose connection to mpd it’ll try to reconnect
    • playlist status added
    • new screen – lyrics
    • switching between playlist and browser with tab key added
    • alternate movement keys added (j and k keys)
    • auto center mode added
    • new option – crossfade can be set to any value now (X key)
    • new option – going to parent directory in browser using backspace key
    • issue with backspace key fixed
    • sorting items in browser is case insensitive now
    • many fixes and improvements
  • ncmpcpp-0.1.2 (2008-08-12)
    • parts of interface are hideable now
    • new screen – media library
    • new option – crop (it removes all songs from playlist except the playing one)
    • many fixes and optimizations
  • ncmpcpp-0.1.1 (2008-08-07)
    • add example configuration file
    • configure.in now works as expected
    • taglib dependency is optional now
    • more customizable options