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:

• boost library
• ncurses library
• readline library
• 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)

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