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     NETJUKE 1.0 BETA CHANGE LOG: Keeps track of the changes made
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VERSION 1.0b17: 2003-03-07 (EST: Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

1. NEW MAINTAINER

	The Netjuke torch has been passed from Stephane Daury to Blake Watters.

2. ID3 AND OGG COMMENT WRITEBACK

	Ogg Comments and ID3 tags can now be written back to the media files to 
	match the corresponding entries in the Netjuke database. This allows 
	complete management of your media from within the Netjuke system.
	
3. MUSIC DIRECTORY BROWSER

	This feature provides an interface for browsing the music library at the 
	filesystem level. Tools are provided to perform selective imports and 
	organization at a directory level.

4. FILESYSTEM ORGANIZE UTILITY

	This tool provides a powerful method for leveraging Netjuke's database to 
	organize the filesystem structure of your media collection. A set of special 
	tokens, preceded by the '%' character allow you to specify the way in which 
	Netjuke will organize your media. This also allows you to make significant 
	changes to the location of a large number of songs without having to concern 
	yourself with losing the metadata of the tracks.

5. STATIC SESSIONS

	This simply prevents sessions from expiring and allows users to interact 
	with Netjuke without having to login frequently. Note that this means that 
	anyone with access to your user agent will be able to access your collection 
	with your access level without ever entering a password.

6. BATCH DOWNLOADING

	This feature builds upon the traditional single file download by allowing 
	archives of multiple files to be downloaded in an organized fashion. Zip, 
	tar, and stuffit formats are supported. Great for burning CD's from your 
	collection!

7. BETTER USER INFORMATION

	Netjuke now informs you of the last time a user logged into their account. 
	Useful for tracking user activity at a glance and identifying stagnant 
	accounts.

8. INTEGRATED RANDOMIZE FEATURES

	Netjuke now contains a dice icon next to any logical grouping of multiple 
	tracks (genre, artist, album, and playlist). Simply click the dice icon and 
	a random playlist of all the contained media will be generated for you and 
	immediately begin playing. Additionally, every form containing tracks that 
	are selectable now contains a 'Randomize' checkbox next to the 
	'Play Selected' option.
		
9. DETECTION OF CHANGES TO MEDIA TAGS

	Netjuke now identifies tracks that have been modified since they were 
	originally imported and will automatically reimport these tracks when the 
	'Maintain Music Database' option is utilized. This allows users to freely 
	edit the tag information of their media with external tools without having 
	to delete and reimport the tracks into Netjuke.

10. SPLIT ADMINISTRATIVE PREFERENCES

	As Netjuke has matured, the preferences have greatly grown in size. To 
	unclutter the interface and provide a more intuitive administrative 
	experience, the preferences have been split into three logical groupings.
		
11. DUPLICATE TRACK FINDER

	This tool provides a variety of options for scanning your library and 
	identifying potentially redundant media. Metadata and actual track data can 
	be considered.
		
12. TRASH CAN

	The batch delete and individual track deletion tools will now move your 
	media to a 'Trash' directory so they can be removed easily. This prevents 
	deleted tracks from being reimported every time the importer is run.
 
14. BUG FIXES AND OTHER ENHANCEMENTS

	Since b16, a number of issues have been resolved that provide a uniformly 
	pleasing Netjuke experience. The latest and greatest versions of the adodb 
	and getid3 libraries have been utilized. Netjuke is now compatible with 
	Postgres 7.3 and higher. The importer will now handle special characters in 
	filenames more reliably. Media in known formats is now scanned aggressively 
	to work around corruption or bugs in the encoder. A new 'Refresh' option has 
	been integrated that allows Editors and Administrators to reread the tag 
	information from any track. A new Russian translation has been completed.
	
15. POLICY CHANGES

	Netjuke is now released under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
	version 2. Additionally, translations have been removed from the release 
	schedule (greatly retarding development). Translations will continue to be 
	supported, but any language pack that is incomplete on the date of release 
	will have the untranslated strings filled with English. Strings will continue 
	to be made available to translators well before a release.
	
VERSION 1.0b16: 2002-11-03 (EST: Montreal, PQ, Canada)


1.  THIS VERSION IS ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH PHP 4.1 AND ABOVE.

    This new version brings the first incarnation of the long-awaited
    jukebox feature (server-play), adds RealAudio support to the Recursive
    Audio File Finder, uses md5 encryption for user passwords in the database,
    removes the cookie requirement for clients not accepting or supporting
    them, now supports apache 2, fixes some problems with the app and the
    installer, and more. See below for install/upgrade instructions, and to
    see what's new and fixed.


2.  UPGRADING FROM 1.0b14, b15, b15.1 or b15.2:
      
      You MUST RUN THE UPGRADE PROCESS of the installer to add the new
      database columns required by this version, and/or convert the
      existing user passwords to the new md5 format.    
    
    + CLEAN INSTALL as second install:
      
      If you already have a copy of the netjuke running, but want to
      start fresh, remember to drop the existing netjuke database.
      You can also use the delete scripts delivered in the netjuke-toolkit
      if you cannot drop and create databases.
      
      You can also create a new database to be accessed by this version,
      if you want to keep your old version running as well, and simply
      test this one.
      
      After that, see netjuke/docs/INSTALL.txt and MAINTAIN.txt for details.


3.  Added first incarnation of the jukebox feature (server-play).
    
    See associated paragraphs in netjuke/docs/MAINTAIN.txt for
    full details.

    Currently supports mpg123, mpg321, ogg123 and winamp.
    
    Mac OSX users can get mpg123 from http://macosx.forked.net
    or http://www.osxgnu.org. It works great on my Mac. :o)


4.  Now using md5 one-way encryption for user passwords in the database.


5.  The netjuke can also support non-cookie-enabled browsers/tools, but the
    cookie-less sessions are less secure than the ones with cookie.


6.  Improvements and fixes for recursive functions of the Audio File Finder.


7.  Revised code that was generating 404 errors in the http server's log
    It was "normal", but I found another way to do what I needed.


8.  New documentation file at docs/MAINTAIN.txt, extracted from the
    docs/ INSTALL.txt file.


9.  Now using SCRIPT_NAME or PHP_SELF, and SCRIPT_FILENAME or
    PATH_TRANSLATED in case one is not available, in both the
    netjuke and its installer.


10. Upgraded to getid3 1.5.4.

    See http://getid3.sourceforge.net/getid3.changelog.txt for more info.


11. Added support for RealAudio format scanning in the recursive audio
    file finder, thanks to getid3 1.5.2 and up.
    
    People ripping their music using the RealPlayer will now be able to
    add their music automatically.


12. Added master-inc-prefs.php and obfuscate-db-passwd.php to netjuke-toolkit

    These tools will help users and developers to install a copy of the
    netjuke without using the web based installer. See these tools and
    the sql scripts delivered with the netjuke-toolkit package.


13. Changed windows detection scheme in recursive audio file finder


14. Changed all "<?=" for "<?php echo " and "<?" for "<?php" for
    increased portability.


15. Updated code to help with international characters (Russian, etc.).

    - Changed character encoding for display.
    
    - Created a new language preference file (inc-langprefs.php) in each
      locale sub-directory to hold the charset and alphabet values.
    
    - The alphabet tables on the Browse page (etc.) are now dynamically
      generated to be able to handle more characters, or replace them.


16. Fixed a problem with IIS when saving playlists. The server was being
    shutdown for no apparent reason. This should now not be the case.


17. Upgraded to ADODB 2.43.


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VERSION 1.0b15.2: 2002-09-21 (EST: Montreal, PQ, Canada)


1.  THIS VERSION IS ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH PHP 4.1 AND ABOVE.

    This updated package fixes a lot of problems that people
    were experiencing with 1.0b15 or b15.1, depending on their
    platform, and brings 2 important new features (see points 9 and
    11 below). Thanks to the bug fixes, I was able to install and/or
    configure 2 windows hosts to date, both running Win2k, IIS, PHP,
    and MySQL, and this without any modifications. First steps toward
    official Windows support (not tested with apache on windows or
    other windows distributions yet).


2.  There are 3 ways to install/upgrade the application. Pick
    the one that is appropriate to your context.
    
    + UPGRADING FROM 1.0b15 or 1.0b15.1:
      
      You DO NOT HAVE TO RUN THE UPGRADE PROCESS of the installer.
      You will only have to replace the files.
    
      See netjuke/docs/UPGRADING.txt for details.
    
    + UPGRADING FROM 1.0b12 through 1.0b14:
      
      You MUST RUN THE UPGRADE PROCESS of the installer to add the new
      database columns required by this version.    
      
      See netjuke/docs/UPGRADING.txt and notes on 1.0b15 in CHANGELOG.txt.
    
    + CLEAN INSTALL of 1.0b15.2:
      
      If you already have an install of the netjuke, but want to start
      fresh, remember to drop the existing netjuke database, or create
      a new one to be accessed by this version. You can also use the 
      delete scripts delivered in the netjuke-toolkit if you cannot
      drop and create databases.
      
      After that, see netjuke/docs/INSTALL.txt for details.


3.  Real-time path generation bug fixes for windows hosts (IIS/apache)
    at install time and when running the netjuke. This update will also
    help on systems where the SCRIPT_FILENAME and/or SCRIPT_NAME php
    predefined variables were somehow not available.
    
    Users wanting to run the netjuke on a windows server instead of *nix
    should now be able to do so. More testing (and possibly updates) is
    definitely needed, but this should be a good start. It is advised to
    run the binary version available on the php site rather than the
    installer-based one, or choose "Advanced" in the installer, and select
    "Display all errors" when prompted (last option).


4.  Bug fixes for systems where the "find" command line tool cannot be
    accessed (windows). There is still the potential for updates on
    non-windows systems where php cannot process shell commands such
    as "find" or "whereis" (safe_mode?).


5.  Bug fix for web servers using a custom page for "404, file not found"
    errors. In this context, most server redirect to the custom page, and
    do return an official 404 error. This was creating problems with the
    real-time generation of the web path to the root of the netjuke.


6.  Removed obsolete version checking code and version file in installer.


7.  Global stylesheet and javascript inclusion is now done on the
    server-side in php, instead of on the client-side by relying
    on the server. This can speed up the application on some systems,
    and helps with cross-browser compatibility.


8.  Checks if data directory is both existing (new) and writable
    (previous), and only if necessary (ie: not in case of direct
    db import in the Recursive Audio File Finder).


9.  Enabled automated login and scheduling features

    Please see netjuke/docs/GLOBAL_LOGIN.txt to see how you can now login
    to the netjuke without passing by the login page, schedule automated
    music imports and/or database maintenance tasks, as well as access
    these features from other scripting/programming languages.


10. Upgraded to getid3 1.5.1.

    See http://getid3.sourceforge.net/getid3.changelog.txt for more info.


11. Added support for WMA (MS Windows Media Audio) format scanning
    in the recursive audio file finder, thanks to getid3 1.5.1.
    
    People ripping their music using the Windows Media Player
    will now be able to add their music automatically.
    
    Also added supported file formats to the page header in the Recursive
    Audio File Finder in Admin.


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VERSION 1.0b15.1: 2002-09-09 (EST: Montreal, PQ, Canada)


1.  THIS VERSION IS ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH PHP 4.1 AND ABOVE.


2.  Bug fix for people running the netjuke at the web root of host
    (ie: not in subdirectory such as /netjuke/).
    

See http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=607117&group_id=42076&atid=432052


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VERSION 1.0b15: 2002-09-07 (EST: Montreal, PQ, Canada)


1.  THIS VERSION IS ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH PHP 4.1 AND ABOVE.


2.  You must run the upgrade process of the installer to add the new
    database columns required by this version.
    
    + See netjuke/docs/UPGRADING.txt for details.


3.  Greatly improved recursive file finder
    
    + Can now import directly (no tab-delimited files)

    + Also, the tool is now much faster to scan for files that have
      been added to your music library, and need to be imported.


4.  Virtual-host and port-forwarding/firewall friendly

    + The netjuke doesn't need a hardcoded web_path or filesystem
      path anymore. You can now connect to the same install of the
      netjuke using any ip or hostname associated with the server.
    
    + This primarily helps people using port forwarding behind a
      firewall who need to connect with a different ip/hostname and
      port depending on if they are connecting from inside or outside
      their network.
    
    + These values, which are still required by the applications
      for some features, are now compiled on the fly.


5.  Advanced Search (see main toolbar)


6.  Full comments and lyrics support.

    + To take full advantage of this feature, you will need to
      delete all music related data and rescan your music library.
      To do so, go to ADMIN -> MUSIC DATABASE MAINTENANCE -> Clear All
      Music-Related Data. Then, just rescan your music library using
      the Recursive Audio File Finder.
    
    + The above is only required if you want to have access to the
      lyrics of the tracks that you had already imported.


7.  List of Artists featured on an Album, and of Albums featuring
    an Artist (click on the question mark next to the artist or
    album name).


8.  The Random tool is now presented in a new Window


9.  New languages available

    In order of submission:
   
    + Catalan, thanks to Eduard Serra and Neus Gonzalez.
   
    + German, thanks to Heiko Wšhrle.
   
    + Spanish, thanks to Oscar Yesid Romero A., Juan Pablo Cardona N.,
      and Luis Marcial Bertel P. from the University of Manizales. 


10. New "View Radio Playlist" option on special edit toolbar.


11. Toolbar, when not logged in and in private mode, now links to login.php


12. Fixed a bug where filtered search results could not be sorted properly


13. Upgraded to ADODB 2.30


14. And more code optimization.


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VERSION 1.0b14: 2002-06-20 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD THE APPROPRIATE PACKAGE FOR YOUR PHP VERSION.
    
    - netjuke-1.0b14-php4.1+.tar.gz for users with php 4.1 and above

    - netjuke-1.0b14-php4.0.6.tar.gz for users with php 4.0.6
    
    See http://www.php.net/release_4_2_1.php for details on the
    differences (see the External Variables paragraph at the bottom).
    
    I know I had said that the netjuke wouldn't support versions
    prior to php 4.1 anymore, but I just couldn't bare to boot so
    many users out of the new versions. ;o)  I can't confirm how
    long I'll be able to maintain both versions, but I'll do it
    if and when I can.
    
    NOTE: The next version (b15) is most likely quite a while away,
    as I'm preparing for my big move from the West Coast (Vancouver)
    to the East Coast (Montreal) of Canada on June 27th. After that,
    I'll be looking for a job there, and probably won't have too much
    time for the netjuke until I find one.
    
    Last version released from Vancouver, BC, Canada.


2.  Fixed a bug where a new artist, album or genre was being deleted
    when created through the track edit window (admin/tr-edit.php).


3.  Fixed a bug with the recursive file finder that was stopping it
    from working in interactive mode in the 1.0b14-php4.1+ version.


4.  Added a music note icon/link in many places to be able to start
    playing all the tracks by an artist, in an album, or in a genre
    in a single click.


5.  Updated the backup and import scripts to process the artwork
    fields for tracks, artists and albums.


6.  Made sure to increment the login count by 1 when a new user
    registers if in security mode 0.0 or 1.0.


7.  Changed the playlist title to accept 100 characters instead of
    just 30. This will only work for new installs, or if you
    re-install.


8.  Made sure to delete tracks from user playlists when they are
    deleted by the database maintenance utility.


9.  Made the random page "more random" by limiting the default
    recordset to 10000 tracks instead of only 1500. It's slightly
    slower, but the selections are now much better.


10. Upgraded the getid3 3rd-party library to 1.4.1b5.

    See url below for more info:
    http://getid3.sourceforge.net/getid3.changelog.txt


11. Upgraded the ADODB 3rd-party library to 2.12.

    See url below for details:
    http://php.weblogs.com/ADOdb/    


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VERSION 1.0b13: 2002-05-28 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  The 1.0b13 upgrade is being released primarily to make the
    netjuke compatible with PHP 4.2 and up. This is a major upgrade
    code-wise, as every single script needed to be seriously
    modified at once. 
    
    NOTE! THE REGULAR 1.0b13 RELEASE IS ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH PHP
    4.1 AND ABOVE. PHP 4.0 USERS MUST GET THE RELEASE LABELED AS
    1.0b13-PHP4.0.
    
    WARNING! AS OF THE NEXT VERSION, THE NETJUKE WILL NOT BE
    COMPATIBLE WITH PHP 4.0.X ANYMORE, DUE TO SOME MAJOR CHANGES
    IN PHP AND THE WAY EXTERNAL VARIABLES ARE HANDLED.
    
    See http://www.php.net/release_4_2_1.php for details (see the
    External Variables paragraph at the bottom).


2.  If you are running b12.2, there is no need to run the upgrade
    process of the installer to move from to b13, because this
    version does not bring any database changes (had enough to do
    for one upgrade). If you are not running b12.2, either install
    b13 from scratch, or go through the the previous upgrades if
    you can (there were some problems with postgres 7.2.1, so you
    might not be able to).


3.  Fixed a date format problem in the Recursive Audio File Finder
    that created problem in Mysql. Thanks to Dan Sully!


4.  Changed the new Postgres sql scripts to use the timestamp data
    type instead of datetime, as postgres 7.2.1 and up do not support
    it any longer. Thanks to Guillermo Schimmel for the heads-up!
    
    This is valid for a fresh install only, which would most likely be
    required for someone moving from postgres 7.1 to 7.2 or 7.3 anyway.


5.  Added 2 new fields in the Random page. Users can now enter a minimum
    and maximum number of seconds that each selected track in the
    generated playlist should be less or greater than.


6.  Added an extra feature to the time search (see quick search).

    Users can still enter a number of seconds (as usual), but can now
    also enter a string starting with > or < followed by a number of
    seconds to find tracks that a greater than or less than the amount
    entered.
    
    Examples:
    - 120 will find tracks equal to 2 minutes, +/- 5 seconds.
    - >120 will find tracks greater than 2 minutes.
    - <120 will find tracks less than 2 minutes.


7.  Added a secure "PHP Info" script in the admin section so that users
    can easily get access to information about their host when they are
    asking for help or troubleshooting.


8.  Upgraded the getid3 3rd-party library to 1.4.1b4.

    See url below for more info:
    http://getid3.sourceforge.net/getid3.changelog.txt


9.  Upgraded the ADODB 3rd-party library to 2.0.

    See url below for details:
    http://php.weblogs.com/ADOdb/    


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VERSION 1.0b12.2: 2002-04-07 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  This b12.2 update brings countless enhancements to the Admin section
    (over b12.1) in the form of tweaks and fixes that hope to help with
    the performance decrease of the music import in b12 over b11.
    
    These changes primarily affect the recursive file finder and the
    file import tool. Tremendous work has also been done at the bundled
    3rd-party getid3 library level. Now bundling 1.4b9.

    + EXISTING 1.0b12.1 USERS only need to download the smaller
      "netjuke-1.0b12.2-update.tar.gz" package, which only has the
      updated files. You do not need to run the upgrader for this
      process.
    
    + IF YOU ARE RUNNING THE ORIGINAL b12 from an update to b11 (not a
      new users), you should proceed with the simple b12.1 update. You
      do not need to run the upgrader for this process.
    
    + IF YOU ARE RUNNING b11, just get the b12.2 release directly,
      and run the upgrade process of the installer (see UPGRADING.txt).
    
    If you were having problems streaming some files in prior versions
    (file not found), you should probably take the time to run the
    Database Maintenance script (see Admin) to delete any tracks that
    can't be found because their respective paths might had been saved
    improperly before (truncated, extra or missing characters). Once
    this is done, and only if the tool did find some missing tracks,
    just run the Recursive Audio File Finder to re-import the faulty
    tracks, so they can be imported properly.


2.  Introduces the concept of a Security Key in inc-prefs.php.

    This value is used to provide secure random seeding to the
    function that generates the session ids used by the netjuke,
    based on some valuable feedback from a security expert,
    Pasi Eronen, who has clued me in on some valuable ideas to
    generate more secure session ids for each user.
    
    It is automatically generated at first and re-generated when you
    save your netjuke system preferences and for each session.
    
    For optimal security, you must change this value at least once,
    and from time to time, with any string of more than 30 characters
    you want. You can do so from the Preference File screen of the
    Admin section (underneath the Security Mode option).


3.  Now importing proper time and bit rate for Ogg Vorbis files. The
    Sample rate is still missing though. Ogg users will need to drop
    their music data throuhg the admin section and re-import for these
    values to be added to the db properly though... Sorry. :o(


4.  Misc. code performance tweaks throughout.


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VERSION 1.0b12.1: 2002-03-25 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  This update brings a fix to the filesize issue found in 1.0b12,
    and a few other changes to the recursive audio file finder. It
    also brings an even less predictable way of generating session ids.

    Existing 1.0b12 users only need to download the smaller
    "netjuke-1.0b12.1-update.tar.gz" package, which only has the updated
    files. The older 1.0b12 package is now actually a litteral copy of
    the new 1.0b12.1 archive to make sure that users getting the netjuke
    from sites still pointing to the original release still get the
    updated copy right away.
    
    To actually fix the filesize issue, and update any faulty data brought
    by it, just go to the admin section, and run the "Maintain Music
    Database" option found in the "MUSIC DATABASE MAINTENANCE" tool.


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VERSION 1.0b12: 2002-03-23 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  You MUST run the installer to UPGRADE TO or INSTALL 1.0b12

    + See netjuke/docs/UPGRADING.txt or INSTALL.txt for details
    
    + Upgrade process is required for existing users as to upgrade
      the netjuke database backend to 1.0b12, which brings quite a
      few database-level changes.
      
      This will be done automatically and will not affect your
      existing data in any way.
    
    + FOR INCREASED SECURITY, remove the netjuke/installer/ directory
      once you are up and running. You won't need it any longer, and
      the module is fully independent.


2.  Added greatly improved recursive file finder upgraded by Steve,
    Marc-Oliver, Alexander and me (hourray for team development! :o).


3.  The "display track count" feature has been greatly improved to
    not use tremendous system resources anymore, thanks to
    modifications inspired by a caching patch submited by
    Marc-Oliver & Alexander.
    
    Since the feature was only optional because of the temporary way
    it was enabled, this is not the case any longer, and this should
    not decrease performance too much (if at all, on recent systems).
    
    The track counts are now diplayed at all time in the "Browse"
    page, as well as in the alphabetical listings. Incidentally,
    the 'N/A' value will now only show up if there are tracks
    actually using the value.


4.  Added "play" button in the playlist edit window to start playing
    all the tracks at once.
    
    This isn't available in the search.php yet, as there could be way
    too many tracks in a listing for the feature to be usable, but
    we'll look for a realistic way to make it happen in future versions.


5.  Changed database field that holds the track's location/path from
    "varchar(255)" to "text" to avoid problems with tracks with
    extremely long filenames or paths.
    
    The same modification has been done to all the columns that hold
    image paths for tracks, artists, (etc) to avoid similar problems.

    
6.  Now incrementing and displaying (admin) a login count value for
    each users.


7.  Modified play.php to only output the extra M3U-related song info
    when accessed from windows, to fix a bug that stopped Galeon and
    Konqueror under Linux from effectively launching the playback.


8.  Modified play.php to only let users with an active session play
    the audio files when the "Protect Media" feature is turned on.
    
    This way, we make sure that users need to visit the site before
    they can start playing audio. It makes sure than if you cancel
    someone's access, they cannot actually keep on playing music
    though playlists they had saved before, or are being given by
    other active users.
    
    Ogg users: you still cannot use the "Protect Media" option...
    The files are found, start buffering, but never actually start
    playing. There are no errors in any logs that can help with
    troubleshooting this issue. Open challenge, everyone...


9.  Upgraded the bundled getid3.php library to 1.4b2, which fixes
    some genre lookup issues, and will also enable us to start
    coding some write-back functions for id3 tags in FUTURE releases.
    
    I/we haven't started w/ the write-back stuff yet because of the
    beta status of the library, as we do not want to risk corrupting
    your audio files. Ultimately, I'd like to also see write-back
    functions for ogg before we can add such features to the
    official release.

    
10. Started importing the comment tag from mp3s to the db. The
    comment tag is not displayed anywhere yet, but will be soon.


11. Misc. code tweaks and bug fixes in the netjuke and the
    installer/upgrader.


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VERSION 1.0b11: 2002-02-27 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  Existing users currently running 1.0b9 or 1.0b10 DO NOT NEED to
    run the upgrade process of the installer to upgrade to 1.0b11.

    + If you haven't upgraded in a while, now is probably a good
      time, because a major modification has been implemented in b11
      (See #2 below for more info).
    
    + See the available UPGRADING.txt documentation to upgrade.
    
    + See the available INSTALL.txt documentation to install.
    
    + 1.0b8 users see the same UPGRADING.txt to upgrade
    
    + User still running version 1.b0b7 (or prior) must upgrade to
      1.0b8 first. See the download section of the netjuke's homepage. 


2.  MAJOR CHANGE AND FEATURE ENHANCEMENT! DATA DISPLAY FIX.
    
    + The netjuke does not store its data in uppercase any more.
      This is probably the most important modification ever made
      to the netjuke since its release on Jan. 3rd 2002.
    
    + Many users mentioned or asked about the fact that the data
      dislayed in the pages wasn not "CaSeD" as they wanted. This
      was due to the netjuke storing its data in UPPERcase to ease
      the requirements for case insensitive searches.
    
    + GOOD NEWS: The data will be displayed correctly forever.
    
    + BAD NEWS: The music-related data that you currently have
      in your netjuke will be displayed in uppercase until you
      clear this data and re-import it.
    
    + To do so, go to Admin -> Music Database Maintenance -> Delete
      Music Data, and proceed with this step.
    
    + You can thereafter re-import your data as usual, and the data
      will be displayed exactly as stored in your audio files, or as
      you choose to further edit it through the netjuke's admin and
      editors tools.


3.  Updated the interface of the "System Preference File" editor/tool
    in Admin to separate the different ooptions by groups.


4.  Fixed a bug with the radio feature. The file path saved to the
    playlist are not url encoded any longer. This was also previously
    available through the 1.0b10.1 listed on the netjuke's homepage.


5.  Found and fixed one of the most elusive media "file not found"
    bug in the netjuke, thanks to a meticulous user on the mailing
    list. (Thanks Jim! :o)
    
    + I'm hoping that this will fix all the potential "404" errors
      some users are experiencing, but Windows users might still
      have them (waiting for your reports on the list :o).
    
    + I didn't know about Jim's version (problem w/ file download),
      but the bug involved some system-wide functions that will have
      hopefully fixed the other few similar bugs we're having so much
      trouble finding (See KNOWN_ISSUES.txt). 


6.  Fixed a bug that stopped the netjuke from running on SunOS, by
    crashing upon generation of the mandatory user session id.
    
    + SunOS had never been tested with. I guess we can add this one
      to the long list of supported platforms!


7.  Misc. code tweaks.


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VERSION 1.0b10: 2002-02-22 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  Existing users currently running 1.0b9 DO NOT NEED to run the
    upgrade process of the installer to upgrade to 1.0b10.

    + See the available UPGRADING.txt documentation to upgrade.
    
    + See the available INSTALL.txt documentation to install.


2.  Added "List All" feature for artists and albums, based on
    Charles Brian Hill's patches).
    
    + Modified Brian's addition to lower the space requirements
      of the added option in the screen, and to make them available
      in the common header seen in the Browse, Random and Community
      screens.


3.  Added "total time and size" in as many places as I could

    + In the Content Summary seen in the Browse, Random and
      Community pages
      
    + In the Search Results / Track Listing header
    
    + In the Private & Shared Playlist header
    
    + In the Community & Favorite Playlist header
    
    + Also modified the function used to format the times to
      display hours, minutes and seconds (as appropriate) instead
      of just minutes and seconds.


4.  Added a "Delete" button next to the Artist, Album and Genre
    lists displayed in the screen used to edit a track's info.
    
    + Just select any of the respective lists' option, and click the
      "Delete" button to delete the entry, and assign all the tracks
      that still used it to the appropriate "N/A" value.


5.  Updated the Quicktime/Darwin SS4 support for the "Radio" features
    so that users do not have to restart the radio stream playlist from
    the QTSS4 web-based admin tool everytime they make modifications
    to the playlist using the special "Add To" & "Replace" tools.
    
    + Make sure the directory in which your QTSS4 playlist resides
      is writable by the application. For more security, make sure
      that the QTSS4 *.config file remains only readable/writeable
      by root, as it seems to contain a clear text stream password.
      This has nothing to do w/ the netjuke though.
    
    + You still need to create the emapty playlist manually at first,
      and start it when you start your server, but modifications will
      be picked up on, thanks to information researched by and provided
      to me by Cleve Posey, an enthousiastic netjuke user, and John
      Anderson from Apple. Thans guys! :o)


6.  Increased the "randomness" of the playlists with a better track
    selection scheme.


7.  Fixed a sad bug with the random playlists when using ogg vorbis

    + Ogg Vorbis users, to my great surprise, weren't able to use
      the random page if they only use ogg files.


8.  Added Brian's patch to stop the recursive audio file finder from
    getting an error when scanning an empty directory.


9.  Consolidated some repetitive code bits everywhere by moving them
    into smarter functions (hence performance improvements).


10.  Misc. code tweaks.


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VERSION 1.0b9: 2002-02-18 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  Existing users running beta 8 should run the upgrade process of
    the installer to upgrade to 1.0b9.

    + See the available UPGRADING.txt documentation to upgrade.
    
    + See the available INSTALL.txt documentation to install.


2.  Started enabling the Radio feature (QTSS4, mod_mp3, etc.)

    + See in Admin -> Pref. File to setup the appropriate values.
    
    + This first incarnation of the feature only enables for
      adminstrators and editors to edit an existing "Radio
      Playlist" text file. To be able to support multiple radio
      server types, the netjuke does not attempt to completely
      administer the stream server itself.
    
    + The netjuke will only format and save the tracks you select to
      a playlist you will already have created to satisfy your server
      requirements, and you will need to (re)start your stream server
      using whatever administration interface provided by the
      developers of the server you selected (Hint: The QT/Darwin SS4
      has an excellent free web-based admin tool ;o)
    
    + Other developers are more than welcomed to come up with and
      contribute custom add-ons for the admin section that would enable
      full administration of the available radio server types. I'll
      be glad to integrate them as they come, but I cant afford to
      focus on such tasks by myself, especially if I want to be able
      to support multiple stream server types.
    
    + To downsample the mp3 files to satisfy users on low bandwidth,
      please see the documentation of the server type you are using.


3.  Added optional "RADIO" link in the primary navigation toolbar.
    
    + Only shows up if there is a value in the new "radio url" field
      in Admin -> Pref. File. This value is otional, in case you
      somehow choose not to have a direct link from the netjuke, yet
      still want to manage a radio playlist.


4.  Created a new extra toolbar for administrators and editors that
    shows up in the search results and all of the different screen
    used to deal with playlists (private, shared, etc.)

    + Batch Track Edit
    
    + Batch Track Delete
    
    + Add To Radio Playlist
    
    + Replace Radio Playlist


5.  Integrated and adapted the "count" patches submitted by Timothy
    M. Crider. Administrators can now define if they want the "Browse"
    page and Alphabetical Listings to display a detailed Track Count
    for each associated value (Artist, Album, Genre).
    
    + Please note that this feature is optional, and defaults to OFF,
      because it currently requires a tremendous amount of connections
      to the database, and can bring your netjuke server to a crawl
      if you aren't running an insanely fast and dedicated host.
    
    + Future plans potentially include caching these values to a
      text/xml file to limit the database requirement, therefore
      lowering the feature's system requirements.


6.  Added some javascript to make sure that the "Protect Media" feature
    is auto-selected when an admin chooses to limit playback to the
    "Real Player" software.


7.  Tried to fix as many issues that came up on the mailing list and
    support requests as possible (keep in mind I'm still alone to
    develop and support the whole solution).
    
    + See KNOWN_ISSUES.txt for what I know still doesn't work.


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VERSION 1.0b8: 2002-02-01 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  You MUST run the installer to UPGRADE or INSTALL to netjuke 1.0b8

    + See netjuke/docs/UPGRADING.txt or INSTALL.txt for details
    
    + Installer is now within the netjuke directory structure.
      - No more double downloads for an install or upgrade.
      - No more filesystem or web path to enter during install.
    
    + The only things left to enter for an upgrade are the database
      type, and an existing administrator's email and password.
    
    + The only things left to enter for an install are the database
      related info, and the credentials for the default administrator.
    
    + FOR INCREASED SECURITY, remove the netjuke/installer/ directory
      once you are up and running. You won't need it any longer, and
      the module is fully independent.
    
    + Upgrade process is required as to automatically upgrade the
      netjuke database backend to 1.0b8. 


2.  Database backend upgrades to accomodate new data, modify some
    column names, and set some default values.
    
    + Some extra columns that have been added are not used yet, but
      have been set now to consolidate the most db changes in one
      upgrade, as these db modifications are what requires to run
      through the upgrade process (for users not familiar with SQL).
    
    + As an alternative, people who download the netjuke-toolkit can
      also updrade the database by running the SQL scripts found in
      netjuke-toolkit/SQL/sql-orig/upgrade/1.0b8/. If you chose to do
      this, you're on your own for support though, and it assumes you
      know what you're doing.


3.  Added new Nickname, date created and date updated fields for users.

    + The Nickname is the caption that is displayed in the community
      section and shared playlists to describe the authors instead
      of their respective email addresses. If the nickname is left
      blank by the user, and he/she needs to be showcased publically,
      the mandatory real name will be used instead.
    
    + The nickname, although optional, is also required to be unique
      if the user choose to set a value.
    
    + The new user-related date fields are displayed in the user
      maintenance section for administrators.
    
    + This will also be used in future features when we need to
      publically identify a user.


4.  Images for Track, Artist and Album MUST now be in var/artwork/.

    +  Remote images were simply unrealistic, because of the time
       it takes to check if a remote image exists, depending on
       the performance and availabilty of the "image server"
       (especially in loops like search results).
    
    + This will bring a tremendous performance improvement to people
      using images extensively.
    
    + Keep in mind that to set an image in the netjuke, you only
      need to enter its address from the top of the var/artwork/
      directory. So an image "/path/to/netjuke/var/artwork/01.jpg"
      would be entered as "01.jpg" in the netjuke screens. You
      can have as many sub-directories as you want within the
      "artwork" folder itself, just like for your audio files in
      the "music" dir.
    
    + Also fixed a bug in the track edit window that stopped anyone
      from clearing an image once set.


5.  Increased security, especially when running in Public modes (0.x).

    + Wasn't required, but aims at lowering future code requirements.


6.  Full url to Music Server is now required in the preferences.

    + Existing users need not to worry. If they have theirs set to
      a relative path, it will be automatically updated the next time
      they modify the system preferences through the admin section.
    
    + The Music Server is still protocol independedent (http, rtsp, *)
    
    + Started to code some key functions for the upcoming Playback
      Types feature (m3u, stream, server play). The netjuke will
      start using them in the NEXT release to allow for saving
      playlists to a mod_mp3 type streamer to allow for an admin
      controlled Radio Mode.


7.  Other Administration Section Upgrade

    + Confirms the genre string bug fixed delivered with the 1.0b7.1
      patch which was bundling a beta release of getid3.php

    + Users are now prompted with an error (where appropriate )if
      the netjuke/var/data/ directory has not been made writable
      by the web application.
    
    + Users are now prompted to confirm before deleting the content
      of the music database or running the dn maintenance tool. I
      had not heard any horror stories yet, but preferred to play
      it on the safe side.

    + Brought the tab-delimited file upload utility back from the
      grave within the admin section. The netjuke does not (yet)
      allow for audio file uploads because posting large files
      from a web page can be extremely unreliable. Feel free to
      submit a module for the admin to do so though. :o)


8.  Upgraded custom session handling to avoid having one session
    created for each track launched when running the netjuke with
    the "Protect Media" option ON.
    
    + Also, the logout function will delete any session that
      have not been updated in the last 12 hours from the
      time it is being called. This hopes to keep the number
      of unused sessions low when users do not take the time
      to log out.


9. Fixed a sort order issue with playlist when launched from
    the playlist or community screens. The issue was first thought
    to be related to the random feature, which explains the numerous
    problems with finding it.


10. Fixed some issues with single quotes (') with the user name's
    (and now nickname) in the acount editing pages, as well as with
    the search queries by track, artist, etc.


11. Misc. upgrade to the documentation and language packs


12. Bundled Libraries Upgrade

    + Upgraded getid3.php to version 1.2.5.

    + Upgraded ADODB to version 1.71.


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VERSION 1.0b7: 2002-01-26 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  No need to use the installer to UPGRADE to 1.0b7 from 1.0b3 through
    b6 as the database backend did not change since these releases.

    + See the available UPGRADING.txt documentation to upgrade.
    
    + See the available INSTALL.txt documentation to install.


2.  All the patches for 1.0b6 are of course included in beta 7

    + IMPORTANT: 1.0b7 (and the previous 1.0b6.2 patch) fixes a
      security hole in the netjuke that could let remote attackers
      run commands as the web server user. WE URGE YOU TO UPGRADE
      YOUR EXISTING INSTALL. Peter Vreugdenhil, who searched for,
      discovered and reported the security hole didn't find any
      other at this time. :o)
    
    + The 1.0b6.2 didn't make it in there, as I chose to rewrite the
      security fix instead. Result: hole is still gone, bugs created
      by the b6.2 patch are gone as well.
    
    + This should fix problems users have been having with the
      community section, as well as random playlists. Please
      let me know through the site's Support option or mailing
      list if you are still these having problems with b7.
    
    + FRIENDLY REMINDER TO ALL DEVELOPERS: Make sure to never
      use user-defined variables in your eval() calls. Any web
      application developer should make sure they thoroughly
      read the following publication, as it applies to many
      other languages than just PHP:
      
      - http://www.securereality.com.au/studyinscarlet.txt


3.  Yet another major upgrade to the Recursive Audio File Finder

    + Dropped class.id3.php, which was only ID3v1.x compliant anyway.
    
    + Upgraded to getid3-1.2.4b which is the best PHP library for ID3
      tags out there.
    
    + Misc tweaks for the MP3 ID3 tag support: All genre tagging
      formats are supported in our tests. Please let us know if
      your are still having genre problems with MP3 files. 
    
    + Ogg support by getid3: 1.2.4b Brings experimental (but stable
      in tests) support for Ogg Vorbis comment tags, based on files
      submitted by existing Ogg users, and the great skills of James,
      the getid3 developer. Thanks James! :o)
    
    + The OGG files that we have been provided with did not seem to
      have a genre or track number entry. Genre and Track Number
      imports are therefore still experimental. OGG users: Let us know.


4.  Fixed a bug in the upgrade process of the installer, which is not
    used at this time as the database hasn't changed since 1.0b3.
    
    + Remaining users of beta 1 and 2 should run the 1.0b3 upgrade
      available in the site's "Download" section before upgrading
      to 1.0b7. Or run a database backup from the admin section,
      re-install from scratch using the installer, and re-import
      the music data into 1.0b7.


5.  Added support for favicons (bookmark/favorite icons) for browsers
    that support it (MSIE for mac doesn't seem to).
    
    + See netjuke/var/artwork/favicon.ico to replace the default icon
      with your own artwork.
    
    + See http://www.favicon.com/ for more info on favicons, the
      browsers that support them and how to create your own to
      replace the default one.


6.  Misc. code enhancements and bug fixes throughout.


7.  Upgraded the whole documentation with new information based on
    the user feedback and the support requests.


8.  Upgraded the toolbox: cleaner structure, more tools.


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VERSION 1.0b6: 2002-01-20 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  No need to use the installer to upgrade from 1.0b3, b4 and b5 as the
    database backend did not change since these releases.


2.  THAT'S IT! The Recursive Audio File Finder seems to please everybody,
    on all supported platform, and all types of ID3 tagging for MP3 files!
    
    + This is all thanks to a lot of valuable feedback from the
      netjuke-users mailing list, and the great updates made by
      Silisoftware to their getid3.php library.
    
    + The same limitations still apply to OGG files (No time, bitrate
      or sample rate are imported. Can still be modified manually).


3.  Generated M3U playlists now conform to the official standard, and
    include the supported tracks information tags (title, artist, album)
    
    + This helps some players with displaying appropriate values.
      Winamp especially, but the track name will be displayed as soon
      as the track starts playing.
    
    + iTunes (potentially others) still only display the track's filename
      as the player only support part of the M3U standard. The tags are
      simply ignored at this time, and the player will still play the
      listed tracks without problems.


4.  Upgraded the tab-delimited file import tool to not create records for
    audio files that are found to be duplicates of existing tracks in the
    database.
    
    + The lookup is done using the file's location, so that users can still
      have 2 copies of a song with the same info, but a different location
      (eg: different artist, album, etc).


5.  Upgraded the admin section with new maintenance features

    + Removed tabfile-upload.php as it was useless now that the best way
      to import music is to use the Recursive File Finder.
    
    + Renamed tabfile-backup.php to db-maintain.php and updated the admin
      index appropriately.
    
    + The new Music Database Maintenance tool includes the old backup
      function, and has two new features:
      
      - Maintain Music Database: scans the entire music database, and
        deletes the records if their related local file cannot be found.
        Files with a full URL (http://, rtsp://. etc.) will remain
        untouched. If an artist, album or genre is subsequently left
        without tracks, it will be deleted as well.
      
      - Clear All Music-Related Data: Deletes all the music-related data
        (tracks, artists, etc.). The users, their preferences and session
        data remains untouched. Playlists are also deleted.


6.  New browser check for the installer to prompt users of netscape 4.x
    or lower to upgrade to mozilla, netscape 6, etc because of some
    nasty javascript incompatibilities. Mozilla 0.9x being so good on
    every platform, this will hopefully not be a problem to users.


7.  Major code enhancements and bug fixes throughout.


8.  Upgraded the bundled getid3.php library to version 1.22.


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VERSION 1.0b5: 2002-01-15 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  No need to use the installer to upgrade from 1.0b3 and 4, as the
    database backend did not change in this release.


2.  Major code enhancements and bug fixes, especially for Mac users, and
    users with enormous music collections (memory footprint during scans).


3.  Major performance enhancements throughout (php, database connect, etc).


4.  Better help in the installer for new users, and docs for everyone
    (even more is on the way).


5.  Had to lower the time limit in some script from 5 minutes to 30
    seconds, but only for users running php in SAFE MODE. Please let me
    know if this creates more problems when scanning huge collections,
    or when using the backup or import features in admin.


6.  Bundled a custom modified getid3.php library until the version
    1.20 is out (very soon I've been told, so it'll be in beta 6).


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VERSION 1.0b4: 2002-01-12 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  Minor code tweaking and bug fixes, mainly to the new upgrade
    process of the installer.


2.  Replaces 1.0b3 which somehow got corrupted on the sourceforge.net
    download site.


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VERSION 1.0b3: 2002-01-11 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  INSTALLER: The installer now also handles upgrades from
    any previous version to the latest release.

    + IMPORTANT: You now MUST run the installer/updater
      to upgrade to the 1.0b3 version (or see the toolkit).
    
    + ALSO: some directories as found in beta 1 and 2 have
      been moved: see the directory structure note below,
      and/or the provided docs/UPGRADING.txt.
    
    + The installation process involves a smaller form
      than the one used with b1 & b2.


2.  NEW FEATURE: ID3v2 Tags Support in File Finder tool.

    Thanks to Remco Voorderhake (aka Fozzie-Bear), who pointed
    out the great php library which enabled this feature.
    library: getid3.php as found at http://www.silisoftware.com/
    
    The previous class.id3.php library is still used when
    getid3.php fails to locate valid tags. If still nothing
    is found, the user is prompted to add the tracks manually
    using a web form (limited to 30 items to avoid huge pages).
    
    + ALSO: Upgraded the recursive finder so that an infinite
      number of audio formats can be supported in the future.


3.  NEW FEATURE: Ogg Vorbis Tags Support in File Finder tool.

    + Scans for track title, artist name, album name, genre
      name, and filesize. We cannot import the track's duration,
      bit rate and sample rate as of yet. Defaults to empty, can
      be set manually through track edit popup window or the 
      generated import file.
    
    + IMPORTANT: Your audio player must support the Ogg Vorbis
      format, which in itself has nothing to do with us.
    
    + This is still very experimental, just like the format
      itself, so just like with players, your mileage may vary
      depending on your platform, player, encoder, etc.
    
    + If nothing is found, the user is prompted to add the tracks
      manually using a web form (limited to 30 items to avoid
      huge pages).


4.  NEW FEATURE: Now supports pictures for each track, album
    and artist database records.
    
    + Picture are stored in netjuke/var/artwork
    
    + A new icon shows up wherever tracks, albums and artists are
      listed, if an image is located for the displayed value. Icon
      can be clicked to open a new window for the full-size view
      of the associated image.
    
    + Clickable thumbnails are also shown in the Track Info popup
      window.
    
    + Pictures locations can be added from the Track Edit window
      when logged in as an administrator or an editor. Location
      can be relative to the netjuke/var/artwork/ directory, or
      be a remote url (http).


5.  NEW FEATURE: Media dispatcher s now optional (defaults to OFF)
    
    + The built-in "media proxy" used to obfuscate the urls
      displayed in the audio player (and which tries to limit
      unwanted non-streaming downloads) is now optional.
    
    + This feature MUST NOT be activated when using Ogg Vorbis
      audio files. Even though the mp3 files will play fine,
      the Ogg files cannot be accessed by the player (???).
      It seems that they do not like the redirection process.


6.  IMPORTANT: Added a new subdirectory structure to handle
    all the user modifiable files that make the content of the
    site. The netjuke/var/ directory now holds by default:
    
    + var/music/*  (new dir.)
      DOES NOT need to be writable by the application.
      Default location to store your local audio files of any
      format. The netjuke's audio directory is optional, and
      can be anywhere on the drive (or mounted). Audio files
      can also be hosted remotely (http, rtsp). Tracks in formats
      not supported by the recursive file finder (RealAudio,
      internet radio streams, etc.) can still be added manually
      at any time from the admin section or the track edit view.
    
    + var/artwork/*  (new dir.)
      DOES NOT need to be writable by the application.
      Local directory structure to store local images for
      artists, albums, and tracks respectively. Images
      can also be hosted remotely (http).
    
    + var/html/*  (html files previously in etc/*)
      DOES NOT need to be writable by the application.
      Default interface header & footer html files. These can
      be anywhere, locally or remotely (http)
    
    + var/data/*  (import and backup dir previously in admin/*)
      MUST be writable by the application.
      Location used by the netjuke to store the [generated]
      music import and backup text files.
    
    Make sure to give the proper privileges to the web server
    (or world read/write) to the content of the var/directory.


7.  HELPFUL: New user-friendly error for users who forgot to cleanup
    any white spaces before and after the php <?php and ?> tags in the
    generated php preference file (as documented).


8.  HELPFUL: New user-friendly (and appropriate) error when the
    installer of the netjuke cannot connect to the targeted database
    (Use to give a misleading error re: persistent connection).


9.  HELPFUL: Major upgrade to the provided documentation's content
    based on the new features, but also on all current user feedback
    and support requests. We're getting closer to start the actual
    FAQ file.
    
    + Added new TODO.txt and KNOWN_ISSUES.txt 
    
    + See */docs/ directory for details.


10. TOOLKIT: New tools added to the netjuke-toolkit.

    + Now includes the original sql for the database generation
      in hope that people will help porting the netjuke to other
      database systems than Postgres and MySQL. The SQL was
      previously only accessible in the installers php scripts.
    
    + Also included the sql used by the installer for people who
      are daring enough to update the netjuke manually! Simply
      run the sql scripts to add the new required columns to the
      previous version of the database.


11. BACKEND: Updated provided ADODB library to version 1.65


12. BACKEND: Many other code tweaking and improvements.


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VERSION 1.0b2: 2001-01-05 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  NEW FEATURE: Added a new RANDOM section that enables users to get
    playlists without having to choose the music themselves. The user
    can optionally choose to limit the random playlist to one or more
    genres, and must define a specific number of tracks (limits the
    load on the web server).

    + If the user is logged in, a random music selection is generated and
      saved as a private playlist, which can then be treated as any other.

    + If the user is in anonymous mode, the music starts playing immediately,
      as playlist creation is (currently) reserved to registered users.


2.  NEW FEATURE: Added a new "Download" button/icon next to the tracks
    in the listings (search, playlists, community, etc.) so that users
    can download the actual file in addition to streaming it.
    
    + The feature can be toggled ON and OFF site-wide by administrators
      so that each site can decide if they want to allow downloads or not.
    
    + The feature is set to OFF by default (ie: no download allowed).

    + See "File Download" checkbox in the system preference screen.


3.  BUG FIX: in inc-common.php in regards to persistent vs. non-persistent
    database connections. This bug only affected users who specifically
    specified for PHP not to use persistent connections in their php.ini
    file, or at compile time.


4.  HELPFUL: New user-friendly error screen when the netjuke cannot accessed
    its required preference file at */etc/inc-prefs.php. The users are now
    prompted to download the installer or use an existing copy of the
    preference file instead of receiving a php error.    


5.  BACKEND: The version checking scheme between the netjuke installer
    and application has been updated to now use a text file at the root
    of the netjuke. One of the plus to users is simply that it's now
    obvious to find out which version is currently installed before
    and update or upgrade. 


6.  MINOR: Changed the word ADMINISTRATION to ADMIN in the top toolbar
    to leave room for the new RANDOM feature. ;o)


7.  BACKEND: Updated English & French language packs to match the new features.


8.  HELPFUL: Updated all the provided documentation files.


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VERSION 1.0b1: 2001-01-03 (PST: Vancouver, BC, Canada)


1.  First public release. Enjoy, and please submit some feedback by
    using the mailing lists available on our Sourceforge.net project
    page located at http://netjuke.sourceforge.net. Thank you!


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