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Changes: This release introduces an improved installer. It is now possible to install Plait without root privileges, in which case it installs in your home directory by default. If you install as root, Plait now installs to /usr/local by default rather than /usr. This is probably what most people want. In either case, you can override the default by providing an install directory as an argument to the install command. Also in this release, minor bugs are fixed in the XSPF Web publishing feature.

Changes: This release contains minor feature enhancements and bugfixes. Error handling is now more robust when the music directory is offline. In this situation, you can still build playlists and play radio streams without receiving any error messages. Interactive mode can now handle filenames containing certain regular expression special characters. A new option, '--platform,' allows you to override the default platform for the scope of a single 'plait' command.

Changes: Several enhancements were made to plaiter: the list option was added, which displays the playlist; loop mode was added; the latch command was added, which ends playback after the current track; optional numeric arguments were added to the next and prev commands; the search command was improved; an rsearch command was added. Plait was extended with support for Beep Media Player and amaroK. Some code was cleaned up. The directory caching routine was modified to work with older versions of GNU find. Note that support for amaroK has not been tested extensively.

Changes: This release adds pass-through commands like "play", "pause", and "next track", which allow you to background any of the supported players and control them from the commandline. There are several bugfixes, including one for a serious bug in "plaiter," the commandline frontend to commandline music players, which could cause it to lose track of still-running helper applications in certain circumstances.

Changes: This release adds support for complex queries against the Shoutcast station directory, including multiple hints, mixes, and the ability to exclude stations with the "not" keyword. These features allow much more selective searching. This release also removes all dependencies on Bash. Plait will now run on any Bourne-compatible shell. Testing shows a 40% reduction in execution time when running the script with Ash on Cygwin versus Bash on Cygwin. No bugs were found since the last release.