Underneath all the changes for the 7.9 release. Almost every change sounds very interesting, but I can't find how these options work. Is there somewhere a description where it describes how these features work?
New Features: o Library Browsing improvements:  Add option to use two browse modes for Album Artists and All Artists instead of one single, configurable list.  Add "Random Album" browse mode, to give access to a random selection of albums.  Add a "Browse Filesystem" mode to access files outside the music folder, without storing them in the database.  Browse favorite Artists/Genres/Albums instead of just playing them when selected.  Add Extended Browse Modes plugin to further configure the library browsing experience.  Add support for "Virtual Libraries" or custom library views, to limit the browsing to a sub-set of your overall music collection.  Improved Browse Music Folder performance. o UI improvements:  Add new, fast live search to the web UI.  Add Fulltext Search: when searching music the results are no longer limited to a simple title or name search. Fulltext search includes a lot more data like artist names, lyrics (if available), file type etc. in the evaluation of the search term.  Improve "Advanced Search": allow searching for ratings, ranges of years, save results, use results as virtual library etc.  Give (limited) control over other players connected to your server from the web UI: power them on/off or start/pause playback without the need to switch the currently controlled player  Allow the web UI's right hand side panel with player control and current playlist to be hidden.  Allow the web UI to be opened with a given navigation for the left hand navigation panel (eg. start with Album Artists).  Speed up library browsing in the web UI by caching rendered pages o Scanner behaviour improvements:  Allow browsing your music folder while the scanner is running.  Don't stop the music when running a full wipe & rescan.  Add an option to disable automatic rescans on certain preference changes.  Increased scanning performance. o Add support for DSD/DSF files on some platforms. o Add new way to read player specific transcoding settings from helper files (eg. for room correction). Thanks LMS0815! o Add update auto-download and/or notification for Linux distributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ad6922's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36131 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104727
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