Version 0.11.0

Features

• Don't send audio to muted clients (Issue #109, #150)
• Snapclient multi-instance support (Issue #73)
• daemon can run as different user (default: snapclient, Issue #89)
• Spotify plugin does not require username and password (PR #181)
• Spotify plugin is compatible to librespot's pipe backend (PR #158)
• Clients are organized in Groups
• JSON RPC API: Support batch requests

Bugfixes

• Compilation error on recent GCC versions (Issues #146, #170)
• Crash when frequently connecting to the control port (Issue #200)
• Snapcast App crashes on Android 4.x (Issue #207)
• Resync issue on macOS (Issue #156)
• Id in JSON RPC API can be String, Number or NULL (Issue #161)
• Use "which" instead of "whereis" to find binaries (PR #196, Issue #185)
• Compiles on lede (Issue #203)

General

• JSON RPC API is versionized (current version is 2.0.0)
• Restructured Android App to support Groups

Version 0.11.0-beta-1

Features

• Snapclient multi-instance support (Issue #73)
• daemon can run as different user (default: snapclient, Issue #89)
• Spotify plugin does not require username and password (PR #181)
• Spotify plugin is compatible to librespot's pipe backend (PR #158)
• Clients are organized in Groups
• JSON RPC API: Support batch requests

Bugfixes

• Resync issue on macOS (Issue #156)
• Id in JSON RPC API can be String, Number or NULL (Issue #161)
• Use "which" instead of "whereis" to find binaries (PR #196, Issue #185)
• Compiles on lede (Issue #203)

General

• JSON RPC API is versionized (current version is 2.0.0)
• Restructured Android App to support Groups

Version 0.10.0

Features

• Added support process streams:
  Snapserver starts a process and reads PCM data from stdout
• Specialized versions for Spotify and AirPlay

Bugfixes

• Fixed crash during server shutdown
• Fixed Makefile for FreeBSD
• Fixed building of dpk (unsigned .changes file)

General

• Speed up client and server shutdown

Version 0.9.0

Features

• Added (experimental) support for macOS (make TARGET=MACOS)

Bugfixes

• Android client: Fixed crash on Nougat (Issue #97)
• Fixed FreeBSD compile error for Snapserver (Issue #107)
• Snapserver randomly dropped JSON control messages
• Long command line options (like --sampleformat) didn't work on some systems (Issue #103)

General

• Updated Android NDK to revision 13

Version 0.8.0

Features

• Added support for FreeBSD (Issue #67)
• Android client: Added Japanese and German translation
• Android client: Added support for ogg (Issue #83)

Bugfixes

• OpenWRT: makefile automatically sets correct endian (Issue #91)

Version 0.7.0

Features

• Support for HiRes audio (e.g. 96000:24:2) (Issue #13)
  • Bitdepth must be one of 8, 16, 24 (=24 bit padded to 32) or 32
• Auto start option for Android (Issue #49)
• Creation mode for the fifo can be configured (Issue #52)
  • "-s pipe:///tmp/snapfifo?mode=[read|create]"

Bugfixes

• Server was sometimes crashing during shutdown
• Exceptions were not properly logged (e.g. unsupported sample rates)
• Fixed default sound card detection on OpenWrt

Version 0.6.0

Features

• Port to OpenWrt (Issue #18)

Bugfixes

• Android client: fixed crash if more than two streams are active (Issue #47)

General

• Support Tremor, an integer only Ogg-Vorbis implementation
• Endian-independent code (Issue #18)
• Cleaned up build process

Version 0.5.0

Features

• Android client: Fast switching of clients between streams

Bugfixes

• Server: Fixed reading of server.json config file

General

• Source code cleanups

Version 0.4.1

General

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

Version 0.5.0-beta-2

Features

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

Bugfixes

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

General

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

Version 0.5.0-beta-1

Features

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

Bugfixes

• Pipe reader recovers if the pipe has been reopened

General

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

Version 0.4.0

Features

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

Bugfixes

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

General

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

Version 0.3.4

Bugfixes

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

Version 0.3.3

Bugfixes

• Fix Segfault when ALSA device has no description

Version 0.3.2

General

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

Bugfixes

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

Version 0.3.1

General

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

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in avahi browser

Version 0.2.1

Features

• Arch Linux compatibility

Version 0.3.0

Features

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

Bugfixes

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

General

• Code clean up
• Refactored encoding for lower latency