First of all Happy New Year :). 2004 was a great year for MOC. The development awaken and gave us 7 stable releases which included many new features. Let's hope that the new year will bring even more improvements.

I've decided to release a bugfix version from 2.1 branch because it seems that 2.2.0 will be delayed a bit due to lack of free time to develop MOC. The list of fixes is in the changelog.

I've also added an MD5 sum for each file on the FTP.

The development of MOC slowed down a bit, but don't worry, here is a new alpha release: 2.2.0-alpha2. The changes are:

• Displaying the total time of files on the playlist and in directories.
  
• Faster reading and saving playlists.
  
• Added --pause and --unpause command line parameters.
  
• Added G command: go to a directory when the currently played file is.
  
• Added U command: go to '..'.
  
• Added nightly_theme.
  
• Recognize if a file was modified and rereading tags and time if necessary.
  
• The cursor is hidden when it's not needed.
  
• Fixed sorting when using the A command.

New alpha release: 2.2.0-alpha1. This is a preview of new features in 2.2.0. Changes from the latest stable release:

• Added support for FLAC audio format.
  
• Added suport for various file formats like au, aiff, voc, and more using libsndfile. This also provides better support for waves.
  
• Going to a directory by typing the path with file-name completion (i command).
  
• Ability to use default (transparent) and grey color.
  
• Added a theme with transparent background.
  
• Global theme directory.
  
• MOC should now work on big-endian processors.
  
• Added XTermTheme option to use a different theme when running on XTerm.

Another bugfix release. It contains only the patch mentioned yesterday.

The 2.1.2 release also has a nasty bug :(. It will not compile with soundcard.h file other than from linux 2.4. Here is a patch for that: moc-2.1.2-AFMT_S24_LE-fix.patch

New MOC version 2.1.2 is a bugfix release which fixes playing mp3 with default configuration and few minor bugs.

If you have problems playing mp3 files, add
UseMmap=no to your ~/.moc/config file. This will be fixed in the next release.

The package for 2.1.0 version doesn't include example_theme file (thanks to Elimar Riesebieter for reporting this). I have decided to release 2.1.1 to fix it.

Version 2.1.0 released! Most significant improvements follows, the full list of changes is here.

• Multiple clients. You can have moc interface on many consoles/terminals.
  
• Searching the menu (CTRL-g) like M-s in Midnight Commander.
  
• Playlist load/save support (m3u files).
  
• The apperance can be customized using themes.
  
• Displaying file time and format in the menu.
  
• Precaching files and not closing the audio device when playing the next file - no more gaps between two songs.
  
• ALSA support.
  

As you can see, I have also redesigned the home page.

2.1.0-beta1 released. It's quite stable, please test and comment. The stable version will be released next week. Changes from alpha3:

• Pressing CTRL-C interrupts long operations that blocks the interface like reding tags for hundreds of files.
  
• Fixes for systems where threads are not processes.
  
• Fixed crash when loading a malformed playlist.
  
• Other fixes.