fix inital_volume being a string

[JojiiOfficial]

[robinvd]

unfortunately this is a breaking change, we could also change the readme to initial_volume = "90" and keep the weird beheviour but that isnt great either

[JojiiOfficial]

That is true but we don't need to publish a release instantly. Most people will use the latest stable version and this new way of parsing the "initial_value" will probably come with other minor breaking changes in the next version.

[robinvd]

yes that might be a good plan, the only thing just like the TOML pr is that people will copy the config from the readme, and that wont be compatible

[slondr]

I added this to the next breaking change milestone.

We should probably decide if we want to keep the incorrect documentation until then.

[JojiiOfficial]

We should update the documentation to work with the currently stable version and update it when we release the new version. We could probably just add a comment that with a git version of spotifyd, the value must be set differently.

[robinvd]

Or we could point the default branch to the latest release

[JojiiOfficial]

Yes I was thinking about this as well. Usually I'm not a fan of such a solution because it looks like nothing is developed anymore and most people see the master branch as nightly/latest version (as far as I noticed) but in such a case like this, it is probably a solution we should consider.

[slondr]

Or we could just hold off on merging this until we're ready to release 0.4.

[mainrs]

Ye, just keep the PR open and merge once v0.4 is on the horizon. It's the easiest.

[leonm1]

I noticed this and wanted to bring up changing the default branch to point to v.0.3.0, whereby drive-by readme readers could be shown the readme for the stable release and anyone looking to compile the master branch could do so with a simple git switch master. A note could be added to the readme for anyone who doesn't immediately notice that the default branch points to a stable release.

That way, breaking changes could be included with a consistent readme in master for people who want to build the current development branch, leading to more bleeding-edge users successfully testing the development channel and finding documentation errors and bugs (especially those arising from merging multiple breaking changes all together at release time) before release.

[slondr]

Alternatively, do we publish the book anywhere? It would probably make more sense if we had properly versioned documentation without expecting users to realize the cargo.toml is a year out-of-date, lol

[eladyn]

I'm not sure if you mean that, but the book is published here. It seems, however, that it is updated together with the master branch. Maybe we could

• either maintain two versions of it: e.g. https://spotifyd.github.io/spotifyd/master and https://spotifyd.github.io/spotifyd/latest
• or change that to only update on releases

[rnestler]

One could change this to be an enum with String and u16 to smooth out the transition: Warn if the user provided a string but still allow it. This would allow users to smoothly change to u16 for the value and in the next release support for String can get removed.