Old News...
7th February 2010
Sockso 1.2.2 (BROKEN) - Users can now change their passwords via the web interface, added property to disable checking for the latest version, new manual scheduler, and bug fixes for quotes in track names and amazon cover fetching.
30th December
Sockso 1.2.1 - New cron scheduling support" } for collection scanning, streaming improvement (by mrave), and added palm pre support.
26th September
Sockso 1.2 - New faster track indexing, AAC support (by mrave), CPU usage improvements, updated Dutch translation, lots of other fixes.
2nd May
Sockso 1.1.8 - Bug fixes for 'connection closed' issue.
19th February
Sockso 1.1.7 - Bug fixes for MySQL, reduced CPU usage with toggleable buffering options when streaming, and removed remaining hard coded text from web interface.
19th January
Sockso 1.1.6 - Bug fixes for indexing and properties, a smarter 404 page, updated german translation, and upgraded to jQuery 1.3
11th January
Sockso 1.1.5 - Bug fixes for MySQL backend, and some javascript issues.
4th January 2009
Sockso 1.1.4 - Bug fixes for searching and logging in / uploading. Added unpacked javascript, restyled album and artist pages to better fit long names (and added a new 'JS Player' - unstable).
7th December
Sockso 1.1.3 - Bug fixes.
25th November
Sockso 1.1.2 - Fixed file uploading (hopefully all platforms).
20th October
Sockso 1.1.1 - Added french translation, ability to scan collection on demand, and fixed bugs with --datadir, indexing Ogg files, a missing image, and the name of the scrobble log.
7th October
Sockso 1.1 - MySQL and (some) SQLite support added, Sockso is now more easily customizable, new WMA to MP3 encoding option.
19th September
Sockso 1.0.9 - Added SSL support, streaming can now require authentication, users can get their scrobble log for tracks they've listened to, added a new flash player, fixed some bugs.
6th September
Sockso 1.0.7 - Add 'related artists' information to pages, improved unicode support and fixed Windows indexing bug (hidden folders now ignored)
30th July
Sockso 1.0.6 - Bug fix release for problems losing colors when resizing local cover art.
27th July
Sockso 1.0.5 - Added resizing of user artwork, random playing of artists/albums, ability to import playlists, fixed imageflow squashing bug, dutch and german translations, and informs user if new versions are available.
6th July
Sockso 1.0.4 - Fixed system tray icon support on linux.
5th July
Sockso 1.0.3 - More improvements to the console, and users can now store cover art on the filesystem with their music.
26th June
Sockso 1.0.2 - Console - you can enable uploads, and added a new command to delete properties. Users can now delete their own playlists from web interface, and the site owner can too.
24th June
Sockso 1.0.1 - Bug fix release for IE not saving selected playlist type.
20th June
Sockso 1.0 - After over a years development, here is Sockso 1.0! No big new features since the last release, just some bug fixing. Enjoy!
14th May
Sockso 0.9.2 - Important bug fixes to the collection manager, greatly speeded up Flac file indexing, improved the accuracy of album artwork fetching, and other bug fixes (tray icon on linux is still broken though...).
11th May
Sockso 0.9 - Flac files are now supported, and the codebase has been cleaned up. This should be the final release before 1.0 next month.
14th April
Sockso 0.8.11 - Changes to audio tags now picked up, new ogg-mp3 encoding option, custom encoding ability enabled, users can specify data directory and change amount of info on www (eg. popular tracks)
24th March
Sockso 0.8.10 - Added ability to play folders in folder browsing mode
1st March
Sockso 0.8.9 - Bug fix release for folder browsing on Windows
25th February
Sockso 0.8.8 - Imageflow album art, folder browsing, GUI console, reworked random playlists
19th January
Sockso 0.8.7 Released (Bug fix release)
15th January 2008
Sockso 0.8.6 Released (Highlights: Now customizable, Random playlists, bug fixes, new - in progress - encoders panel)
5th December 2007
Sockso 0.8.5 Released (Highlights: Uploads, OSX app version, Norwegian translation, lots of bug fixes)
23st October
Sockso Forums opened!
20st October
Sockso 0.8.2 Released (Highlights: disable downloading, embedded flash player, user specific languages)
5th September
Sockso 0.8 Released (Highlights: User login/registration options, NAT tester, many more tweaks)
29th July
Sockso 0.7.2 Released (Highlights: Console added so you can run Sockso on servers without a GUI)
24th July
Sockso gets a 5 Star review over at softpedia.com.
18th July
Sockso 0.7.1 Released (Highlights: Fixed major problem starting on Sockso on some platforms)
13th July
Created a Github repository online so people can get the source any time.
6th July
Sockso 0.7 Released (Highlights: Album art, and embedding music in your own website!)
28th June
Sockso manual added to the site, and a walkthrough posted on simplehelp.net. Sorry for the website problems, I'm having problems with my hosting company. Trying to get them to sort it quickly!
22nd June
Sockso 0.6 Released (Highlights: Online flash player, XSPF playlists, tweaked UI)
17th June
Sockso 0.5 Released (Highlights: Great new look, rss feeds and search)
16th June
Sockso 0.4 Released (Highlights: Web playlist, download tracks, albums and artists)
13th June
Sockso 0.3 Released (Highlights: Systray support, auto collection updating)
10th June
Sockso 0.2 Released (Highlight: OGG and WMA support!)
6th June
Sockso 0.1 Released! (In beta now!)
4th June
Sockso website launched, and first (alpha) release made.