NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus)

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

…and a lot more minor functions.

Dependencies:

Known issues:

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

Release Notes:

  • 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

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