A number of things have happened in and around forked-daapd in the last month or so, so let’s review the new features and the plan for Squeeze.
On the features front, Kai Elwert has done a lot of work since July to implement missing features at the DAAP and DACP level to get better support for Remote:
- playlists can now be played from Remote;
- listings are sorted in a way that’s closer to what you get from iTunes;
- sort headers are now generated when requested so Remote can display the A-Z quick access list.
Also, forked-daapd can now remember which speakers were selected before shutdown and attempts to automatically reselect these speakers the next time around. Speakers that were selected will be reselected if they appear at most 5 minutes after startup and the player isn’t running at that time.
On the Squeeze front, a viable snapshot of forked-daapd will release with Squeeze. This snapshot doesn’t have all the Remote improvements listed above, although it’s got the playlist support, can remember the speaker selection and includes bug fixes.
My plan is to provide backports through backports.org once Squeeze is released and for as long as possible after that.
There’s always more in the works, so stay tuned =)