From 5a3dc180fb09de955341385808ab2d541cbabf1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stein Magnus Jodal Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 14:04:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Add file backend to changelog Fixes #1004 --- docs/changelog.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst index be6f030c..dd7170c0 100644 --- a/docs/changelog.rst +++ b/docs/changelog.rst @@ -54,6 +54,30 @@ MPD frontend instead of "A, B". This is a part of updating our protocol implementation to match MPD 0.19. (PR: :issue:`1213`) +File backend +------------ + +The :ref:`Mopidy-File ` backend is new bundled backend. It is similar +to Mopidy-Local since it works with local files, but it differs in a few key +ways: + +- Mopidy-File lets you browse your media files by their file hierarchy. + +- It supports multiple media directories, all exposed under the "Files" + directory when you browse your library with e.g. an MPD client. + +- There is no index of the media files, like the JSON or Sqlite files used by + Mopidy-Local. Thus no need to scan the music collection before starting + Mopidy. Everything is read from the file system when needed and changes to + the file system is thus immediately visible in Mopidy clients. + +- Because there is no index, there is no support for search. + +Our long term plan is to keep this very simple file backend in Mopidy, as it +has a well defined and limited scope, while splitting the more feature rich +Mopidy-Local extension out to an independent project. (Fixes: :issue:`1004`, +PR: :issue:`1207`) + Utils -----