kew

kew 4.4.2

Notice To Package Maintainers:

Some very large animated gif histories and the website were removed from git history using git-filter-repo. There's a script attached to the v4.4.1 release that verifies that nothing else was touched. See here: https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew/releases/tag/v4.4.1

Enhancements:

• Winamp-style (projectm/milkdrop) visualizations on linux through a new plugin, pmstream. By @ravachol. How to install: https://codeberg.org/ravachol/pmstream

• Fuzzy search. By @superb-striker.

• Track if visualizations are enabled. By @ravachol.

• Improved search result hierarchy and folder navigation. By @superb-striker.

• Remembers your library sort order. By @ravachol. Suggested by @kase.

• New settings visualizationsFps, visualizationsShowPresetInfo. By @ravachol.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed many minor issues in the UI layer. By @ravachol.

• Bumped miniaudio to v0.11.25. By @ravachol. Suggested by @Surneval.

• In playlist the 100th song was off by a column. By @ehatch.

• Fix scrolling glitch in playlist view. By @arrbrants.

• Re-enable name scrolling in playlist view. By @ravachol and @arrbrants.

kew 4.4.1

• Fixes termux package not running. By @ravachol.

TO PACKAGE MAINTAINERS:

After releasing v4.4.1 I rewrote the git history with git filter-repo --invert-paths to remove large binary files that had been deleted long ago plus two animated gifs in the readme which I also deleted. These files made a fresh clone ~265 MB. It is now ~16 MB. The kew binary is ~1MB so having git download 265x seemed unreasonable to me. The issue for this cleanup is also the most upvoted one we've ever had.

All commit hashes from the first affected commit onward changed, including release tags. I’m sorry if I surprised anyone.

What was removed: only the paths listed in removed-paths.txt, mostly images (gifs and screenshots) and the website/ and pages/ directories.

No source files were touched. Commit authors, dates and messages are unchanged.

How to verify: with a clone of the old history, run verify-tags.sh (attached) in a clone of the new one. For every release tag it checks that the new tree is identical to the old one except for the files on the list, and that nothing was added or modified. Output from my run is in verify-output.txt, including old → new commit hashes for every tag.

stable-musl is a floating tag that has always moved, and it isn’t part of the comparison.

The old history is attached to the v4.4.1 release as a bundle. You can also still get the old history by running: git fetch origin 1cec5794b16a0f5b6957b3a466dc4918c20312c9, but this might be garbage collected at some point.

In short, to verify, run these commands:

chmod +x verify-tags.sh ./verify-tags.sh /path/to/your/old/kew removed-paths.txt stable-musl

It should say ok on each line and then problems: 0.

kew 4.4.0 "PUNK TACTICS" EDITION

This version fixes 22 bugs and leaves the repo without any open bugs!

We also now finally have fragmented mp4 support, which means we can add mp4 as a supported type, thanks to the great work of @superb-striker.

It has been a bit of a bumpy ride since we rewrote the UI more properly from scratch. Now it seems we are out of the woods and kew is stable again.

We have a thing called "Project Joy" running. We want people to submit issues for every little detail, so that we can fix it and kew will be a "joy to use".

Special thanks to @superb-striker, @arrbrants (@Cai-kunkun), @nhuvaynhe, @jsteitz and @LeahTheSlug who helped out a lot.

Thank you to new sponsor @Demorome.

Punk Tactics video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OklSZmIx9-o (not affiliated with us)

/Ravachol

Enhancements:

• MP4 support, including fragmented mp4's. By @superb-striker.

• Spanish translation. By @victorhck.

• Russian translation. By @adem4ik.

• Add xesam:url to MPRIS metadata. Suggested by @keratomalaciant.

• Add trackslist support to MPRIS. By @superb-striker.

• Flatpak package. By @superb-striker. Suggested by @mendhak.

• Add ability to seek while playback is paused. By @superb-striker. Suggested by @eilvelia.

• Don't re-create device on song switching when the format is the same. By @Cai-kunkun.

• Prettier landscape mode when there's no cover (cover area disappears). By @ravachol after issue by @lianchu114514.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix when clicking in the playlist view, the selection bar can go to the bottom of the playlist. By @nhuvaynhe. Reported by @jsteitz.

• Fix scrollbar unresponsive on very large terminal sizes. By @ravachol. Found by @LeahTheSlug.

• Fix library view position jumping, when expanding a folder, then scrolling down with the scrollbar, then expanding another one. By @ravachol.

• Fixes several smaller issues with MPRIS implementation. By @ravachol.

• Fixes issue with unicode string length of folders in library. By @ravachol.

• Fixes stale .m3u playlist causing a crash. By @ravachol. Reported by @Needlide.

• Fix raw AAC ADTS support. By @superb-striker.

• Fix Help view doesn't clear bottom lines cleanly when scrolling, showing duplicate lines. By @ravachol.

• Prevent open_url from firing twice. By @ravachol.

• Fix resources not being freed correctly in get_dbus_connection_with_timeout(). By @ravachol.

• Fix stalling of audio on 192khz songs on Pipewire. By @ravachol. Found by @Cai-kunkun.

• Allow seeking back on small sound files. By @superb-strike.

• Fix crash because of NULL in scroll_next() by @ravachol.

• Fix landscape mode info message is very brief. Found by @LeahTheSlug. By @ArrBrants.

• Fix use-after-free error when song was loading during the cleanup of decoders. By @ravachol.

• Fix sometimes the selected song in the library moves up until it disappears. By @ravachol.

• Fix kb/s on songs of different kHz not displayed back to back. By @ravachol. Found by @LeahTheSlug.

• Fix windows build issue. By @AcidRain.

• Fix off-by-one in length check. By @dirkmueller.

• Fix issue where collapse library to top level led to enqueueing requireing several key presses sometimes. By @ravachol.

• Fix hide mini-controls below the side cover if mouseEnabled=0. By @ravachol.

• Fix check for artists db returning a false positive. By @ravachol.

kew 4.3.8

• Fix windows installer error. By @ravachol.

kew 4.3.7

Enhancements:

• Added ALAC support again. Different lib this time: https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/blob/master/alac.h. By @ravachol.

• Added man pages for kewrc and kewstaterc. By @ravachol. Suggested by @jsteitz.

Bug Fixes:

• Respect mouseEnabled=0 and hideTimeStatus=1 again. These settings were lost during the UI rewrite. By @ravachol. Reported by @jsteitz.

• Fix keybindings with Ctrl+a..z being ignored. By @ravachol. Reported by @jsteitz.

• Windows: Fix crash when running kew not as a shortcut but from within a terminal. This was caused by adding SMTC windows media key integration and ISystemMediaTransportControlsInterop::GetForWindow checking window ownership internally and throwing E_ACCESSDENIED because the HWND is owned by the terminal. By @ravachol. Reported by @battlelitany.

• Fix Chroma printed in the wrong position for songs with non-square album covers. By @nhuvaynhe.

• Fix crash sometimes when there was no song cover. By @ravachol. Found by @SoupKitten.