v0.3.0

The filter update! 🛂

• You can now apply filters to item views, which will stick throughout the whole application until cleared or changed.
  • The new command to use them is

    "f" ( "c" | [pufrld]+ )
    

  • "c" clears current filters, the other letters stand for Played, Unplayed, Favorite, Resumable, Likes, Dislikes.
  • An example of a syntactically valid command is f p pu. Repetitions don't cause problems, but asking for both Played and Unplayed or both Likes and Dislikes results in an error. As usual, whitespace, except to separate "f" at the start, doesn't matter.
  • I have no idea what Likes and Dislikes are or how on Earth you can set them. But you sure can filter for them!
• The menu header lists which filters are active and which are ignored for the current context out of the ones enabled by the user. Ignored filters are displayed between tildes: ~isFavorite~.
• The Latest Unplayed root menu item has been renamed back to Latest Added, reflecting its contents.
  • You may apply a filter for Unplayed items.
  • This solves the longstanding bug with the sorting of items in Latest Unplayed.
  • There is a caveat: the API endpoint for the most recently added items forces querying for either Played or Unplayed items only. As jftui is (for now!) incapable of merging results from multiple queries into a single view, different endpoints are being used for the filtered and unfiltered Latest Added item views. Consequently, you will experience some differences in the items you see and how they're presented when applying filters to Latest Added. Specifically, Episodes will be listed individually without filters and grouped under their Series with filters on.
• Filters are disabled for MusicCollection and MusicArtist contexts (i.e. music libraries and artists).
  • MusicAlbum and MusicArtist items (which are what populate a Music library in jftui under User Views) never update their Played status. Furthermore, queries on Music Collections with a Filters argument are extremely slow. I advise you against using them with the official Web Client when listing Artists too, due to the query time issue.
  • Filters work correctly in MusicAlbum and Folders that correspond to music albums.
• Clang is no longer hardcoded in the Makefile. The build process will use your default cc compiler.
• Some code refactoring.

v0.2.3

Bugfix release:

• Fix #8: only use curl PSL when available.
• Fix #9: case insensitive parsing of "location" HTTP header and proper error handling when this fails.
• Fix incorrect FATAL when changing options/loop-playlist from inf to no after having done at least one loop.
• Fix command parser spazzing out when receiving malformed input that doesn't have a valid prefix.
• Fix mpv core not resetting when exiting playback by reaching the end of the last file via skipping to a chapter set at or beyond the end of file.
• Fix mpv core getting stuck when exiting playback after having switched files very quickly.
• Prevent possible deadlock when network unit fails initialization, which would get jftui stuck on exiting.
• More informative output of --version invocation.

v0.2.2

Many small things:

• Improved playlist:
  • Added support for mpv command script-message jftui-playlist-print which will cause the program to output the contents of the current playback playlist to terminal;
  • Added support for mpv property options/loop-playlist: jftui will treat values yes, force and inf in the same way by looping forever; numerical values will also be honoured.
    (see the wiki for suggestions on how to configure your input.conf)
• Improved TUI:
  • TV show episode numbers are printed in all contexts;
  • CD and track numbers are always printed for audio items, as per CDno.trackno;
  • For clarity, the item selector numbers at the start of each line are now delimited by a :.
• Set window title for video item playback;
• Made playback session stop report to JF server more reliable;
• Made mpv reset between playback sessions (before it did only on receiving a quit command from the user);
• Improved playback error handling;
• Command history now remembers the 16 latest commands, including incorrect ones.
• Fixed incorrect playlist seeking for video items;
• Fixed external subtitles sometimes not getting loaded because the command was issued too soon;
• Fixed a segfault when trying to free pending network requests;
• Fixed command parser accepting input when a prefix of the string is a valid command followed by garbage.

v0.2.1

Changelog:

• Set media-title property to item name as per issue #3.
• The hostname of the machine running jftui now shows up as device name for the session in the server's Devices tab on the Dashboard, like so.
• Fix crash on exit when network unit is still uninitialized.
• VobSub external subtitles can only be used via transcoding, so jftui no longer attempts to load them.
• Failing to load external subtitles is no longer FATAL but just a warning.
  This can happen e.g. if the subs file is in an encoding not supported by the server.
• JSON parser now validates its input and will return a FATAL error if it finds it's malformed instead of exhibiting undefined behaviour.
• jftui will not show items the server is currently updating, to prevent issue #5.

v0.2

The video update!

• jftui will now play video items:
  • Support for files with multiple versions: a prompt is shown to choose one when first playing the file. If the file is in a playlist and you go back and forth, the chosen version will persist. Exit playback and enqueue the item list again to be able to choose another.
  • Support for split-files: they are merged using mpv's EDL protocol (as by the --merge-files option); be aware this seems to put a lot of stress on the server's CPU when you first start playback, especially when going through an HTTPS reverse-proxy (the observation was made using nginx) and may also translate into a few seconds of lag in mpv. Do note no such stress or lag occur for monolithic files.
  • Support for external subtitles: in the case of split files, all external subtitle streams for each part are loaded on individual tracks, so you need to switch manually when moving between parts in the merged file. This is hopefully a temporary measure.
  • Support for progress markers: in the case of split files, the Jellyfin server is designed to treat each part individually, which has the consequence to allow each part to have its own independent marker. jftui makes an effort so that one and only one part per whole merged file has a progress marker, but supports resuming from any marker if there are multiple set from other clients.
    Also note: if there are no markers in its first part, the item will not show up in Continue Watching. This is a server bug.
• Reduced the amount of items returned on Latest Unplayed.
• Various bug fixes and code improvements.

v0.1.2

Changelog:

• Fixed #1;
• Fixed segmentation fault happening if running network cleanup while network traffic is ongoing on recent OpenSSL versions;
• Trying to open a video file (still a stub, sorry) drops you back to menu navigation instead of switching to the idle mpv core;
• More robust settings file saving (write to temp file then move that to proper location);
• Signal handling is now more robust and POSIX-compliant for a multi-threaded application;
• Latest Added menu item renamed to Latest Unplayed as that is more accurate to its contents.

v0.1.1

Changelog:

• Fixed --login not working;
• Fixed version number not getting updated in settings file;
• Added notification if an update was installed since last run;
• Fixed libcurl Public Suffix List sharing being used only on v7.62+, whereas it was implemented in 7.61;
• Some code refactoring.

v0.1

Initial release.