To demonstrate the new I/O thread.  libsoup is well-integrated into
the GLib main loop, which made this plugin pretty easy to write.

As a side effect, we have to initialize the I/O thread in all debug
programs that use the input API.

This patch fixes a typo in doc/user about playlist plugins.

Its in the top commit in my repository in a branch called 'doc_fix':
git://github.com/mcfiredrill/mpd.git

These fixes were mostly generated with `codespell' [0] and manually
reviewed.

[0] http://git.profusion.mobi/cgit.cgi/lucas/codespell/

Added a new optional parameter for the shout plugin called "url".

Using libffado, to play on firewire audio devices.

Warning: this plugin was not tested successfully.  I just couldn't
keep libffado2 from crashing.  Use at your own risk.

For details, see my Debian bug reports:

  http://bugs.debian.org/601657
  http://bugs.debian.org/601659

Added support for a new optional configuration setting for the httpd output
named "bind_to_address". Setting it to a specific IP address (v4 or v6) will
cause the httpd output to bind to that address exclusively. Supporting
multiple addresses in parallel is future work.

This implements the feature requests #2998 and #2646.

Did you ever accidently click "stop" while feeding a radio station?
This option sets the output device to "pause" to disable the "close"
method.  It falls back to "pause" then, which is specific to the
plugin.  Some plugins implement it by feeding silence.

Add an option for each audio output which enables the use of the
hardware mixer, instead of the software volume code.

This is hardware specific, and assumes linear volume control.  This is
not the case for hardware mixers which were tested, making this patch
somewhat useless, but we will use it to experiment with the settings,
to find a good solution.

The new option "sample_rate" sets the sample rate for libmikmod.

Same as the previous patch: create up to 16 configured source ports.
The plugin tries to do its best at guessing the right combination for
the given input file, the number of source and destination ports.

Be more clear which kind of port should be configured here.

Use the same name as in the libjack API documentation.

This new plugin parses extm3u files.  Files without the "#EXTM3U"
header are still parsed by the plain old "m3u" plugin.

jack_client_new() is deprecated.  This requires libjack 0.100
(released nearly 5 years ago).  We havn't been testing older libjack
versions anyway.

As a side effect, there is the new option "autostart".

An asterisk means that this attribute should not be enforced, and
stays whatever it used to be.  This way, some configuration values
work like masks.

This patch completes the configuration support.

The recorder plugin writes audio played by MPD to a file.  This may be
useful for recording radio streams.

This implementation is incomplete, because support for tags is
missing, and MPD should be able to record each track to a different
file.

Do all the software volume stuff inside each output thread, not in the
player thread.  This allows one software mixer per output device, and
also allows the user to configure the mixer type (hardware or
software) for each audio output.

This moves the global "mixer_type" setting into the "audio_output"
section, deprecating the "mixer_enabled" flag.

Add this option to the user's manual.

- introduce a section explaining the mpd.conf format, as done in the man page:
is it better to re-explain it here or ointing the user to the man page,
avoiding information dupplication?
- reorganizze some sections of the manual to give them a linear aspect...

Added the per-device option "mixer_enabled" which allows users to
disable the hardware mixer of an audio output.

The old global settings "http_proxy_host", "http_proxy_port",
"http_proxy_user" and "http_proxy_password" continue to work.