Snapcast v0.5.0-beta-1

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