Release 4.0.0

Major Changes

• New logic for first-time users to attempt pre-configuring some things. This change also removes the requirement of having a file that has to be written.
• Support for Icecast which enables butt, MIXXX, and many, many more.
• New support specifically for Traktor and Virtual DJ.
• OBS Websocket v5 support for OBS Studio v28+. Older versions of OBS Websocket are not supported.
• Twitch support major overhaul! New UI and support for track requests via channel point redemptions or chat or both.
• Additionally, Twitch support for randomized requests tied to crates/playlists.
• New Discord support to update a bot's status
• Upgrades from v1 and v2 are no longer supported. You will need to upgrade to v3 first if you wish to save your settings.
• The plain text file output now supports append!
• Webserver supports serving static content from the NowPlaying/httpstatic directory. Useful for when you want to add logos to the web templates.
• There wis now a check for newer versions of the software being available!

Internal/Minor Changes

• New About menu item, new icon, and new logo!
• Minor website redesign and direct download links in Quickstart.
• Some new and updated templates to clean up some things and to show off the new features.
• Cover art should now be shown when using Tidal on Serato.
• Using other streaming services on Serato should no longer break some of the artist features.
• Virtual DJ's custom m3u entries will now attempt to be used, enabling external services such as Deezer.
• Major structural changes internally over a series of code changes so that TrackPoll may support asyncio. A side benefit has been that various parts of the system are just generally faster, more efficient.
• Metadata processing finally got some (simple) parallelization.
• Subprocess handling is now much more streamlined and should be less impacted by crashes.
• Speaking of crashes, many edge-case crashes have been eliminated.
• Along the same line, quite a few general concurrency issues fixed.
• SSL certificate authority file is now built into the binary to prevent weird SSL errors.
• Serato processing has gotten a major overhaul.
• Artist URLs should now be normalized as well as better de-duplication (e.g., http vs. https to the same site)
• Moved various bits of source around in the source tree to ease maintenance.
• MusicBrainz should be more reliable in a few cases.
• A few more things are now using pathlib.
• Better error reporting/capturing for a few things.
• A simple JSON-based source plug-in to help test things out.
• The usual doc updates to with the changes.
• Several rounds of dependency updates.
• Some updates for logging to better capture problems when they occur and better status reporting in others. Plus some logs have been removed entirely.
• Python v3.10 is now required.

Known Bug List