Software update: moOde audio player 7.0.0

Version 7.0 of moOde audio player has been released. This program turns a Raspberry Pi into a comprehensive music center and can play music files stored on the local network, from internet radio stations and from various streaming services. The player can be controlled via a web browser or mobile device and supports a large number of dacs, so that the music can also be played in high quality. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Library

• Radio view with sort/group, favorites and metadata
• Enhanced Folder view with cover art and advanced search
• Artist list includes Performers, Conductors, Album Artists
• Option to select the key used to differentiate albums
• Option to include the comment tag
• Multiple occurrences of Genre, Artist, Performer, Conductor included
• Performance improvements loading and rendering
• Higher resolutions for thumbnail generator
• Advanced search and filtering engine

MPD

• Version 0.22.3
• Selective resampling and Custom SoX recipes
• SoX 705.6 and 768 kHz sample rates
• Auto-shuffle 3.10.0 with Track and Album modes
• Resource options for buffer, playlist, and input cache size

DSP

• 12-band Parametric EQ for AutoEQ headphone equalizing and room correction
• Support for up to 384K rate for DDDAC1794 NOS
• CamillaDSP and ALSA cdsp plugin for testing

Playback

• Albums played directly if already in the Queue
• Context menu items for Add next, Play next
• Include Add next, Play next in list of “One touch actions”
• Option to display thumbnails in the Queue
• Option for Renderer backdrop (Cover or Backdrop image)
• Option to choose the search site used for Artist, Album lookup
• Now Playing EQ style icon for the Queue and Library
• HD badging added to Playbar, CoverView amd Playback
• More tags added to the Extra metadata Appearance option
• Show numeric volume level on the Playbar
• Option to show mapped dB volume in the knob

Maintenance

• Auto-configure expanded to include most settings
• Moodeutl options for Export/Import all settings

Components

• Bluez-alsa 3.0.0 w/SBC XQ
• Librespot-dev-6a4bc83
• Squeezelite 1.9.7-1270
• Upmpdcli 1.5.1

This release is based on RaspiOS Buster Lite 10.6 (2020-12-02) and Linux kernel 5.4.77 build #1371. Refer to the Release Notes for more information.