VERSION 1.4.4
FEATURES:
* Transfer .wav-files to iPods. (BR 131130)
* Xine and Helix engines now support three different crossfading modes:
always, on manual track changes only, or on automatic track changes
only.
* Manually specify local file for podcast episodes via right-click menu.
* Action menu entry for adding podcasts to Amarok. Based on .desktop files
by Harald Sitter and Fabio Bacigalupo <kde-apps.org@open-haus.de>.
* Open podcast items with external application from right-click menu.
* Synchronize listened flag for podcast between Amarok and iPods.
* Added integrated Magnatune.com music store. Includes artist and album
info and full previews of all tracks.
* Fade-out for xine-engine when pressing Stop. Patch by Tuomas Nurmi
<tnurmi@edu.kauhajoki.fi>. (BR 127316)
* Support downloading of files from an MTP device.
* Purged podcast episodes can be readded by increasing the purge number.
* Added rudimentary support for the Rio Karma. (BR 132713)
* Support creation and editing of playlists on MTP media devices.
* Undo/Redo functionality is now available over sessions. (BR 131072)
* Allow the creation of empty playlists in the playlist browser. Available
either from the Add button in the toolbar or the context menu of a
playlist folder. (BR 133543)
CHANGES:
* Ignore leading "The " when sorting artists on media devices. (BR 136233)
* Improved handling of VFAT/ASCII files and paths when organizing the
collection and using the Generic media device.
* Enable playing audio CDs on CD insert. Patch by Will Stephenson
<wstephenson@kde.org>. (BR 136106)
* Bring Amarok main window to front when starting amarok again without
arguments. Patch by Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>. (BR 135396)
* Don't switch to playlist browser after saving a playlist from files tab.
(BR 130189)
* Add .ape and .mpc to possible file types supported by a generic media
device. (BR 133491)
* Move button for saving current playlist from playlist browser toolbar to
playlist toolbar. (BR 129300)
* Run 'kdeeject -q devicenode' when no post-disconnect command has been
configured for media devices.
* Reduced memory usage for MTP media devices. (BR 134663)
* Faster searching on playlist and startup, due to some optimizing in
string usage. Patch by Ovidiu Gheorghioiu <ovidiug@gmail.com>.
* Correctly translate media:, home:, ... style urls on KDE 3.5 and newer.
* When tracks are added to the collection and Playlist entries already
exist (as determined by the file tracking code), the corresponding
Playlist entries are updated to the new location and enabled if they
were previously disabled.
* When file tracking is updating Playlist entries, multiple entries of the
same song will now all be updated, instead of just one.
* When tracks are removed from the collection (deleted on disk or moved
outside of a collection folder) any corresponding entry in the Playlist
will be disabled.
* Dragging podcasts to to playlist will insert them in a chronological
order, so you can listen to the oldest first automatically!
* Improve application startup times dramaticaly by lazy loading podcast
episodes.
* Transferring tracks to an MTP device now shows a progress bar and
doesn't hang the rest of the UI. (only available for libmtp >= 0.0.15)
* Show a proper tag dialog when viewing information for DAAP music shares.
BUGFIXES:
* Ipod Mode on Collection Browser would have duplicated headers.
* Multiple problems related to Amarok using wrong playlists on Dynamic Mode
fixed.
* Deleting files from generic media devices would not update the progress
bar, resulting in the progress staying at 0%. (BR 130009)
* If nothing at all existed on a generic device, the first item
transferred would incorrectly show that an error had occured during
transfer. (BR 133528)
* Synchronising a smart playlist to a device when it didn't exist before
would crash Amarok. (BR 135956)
* Proxies would not take into account certain settings in KDE's Proxy
control center modules for PAC files and more. (BR 123021)
* Generic media devices would not accept files with an extension that only
differs in case from a supported extension. (BR 135261)
* Xine-engine: Pausing during crossfade would not work properly. Patches by
Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 122514 & 135285)
* Stop a running cross-fading operation before starting another one. Patch
by Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 128629)
* Queuing again would dequeue. (BR 121206)
* In some cases, the Removal and Enqueue buttons in the queue manager would
have no icons. (BR 115895)
* Don't change length of position slider when navigating within a track.
(BR 122569)
* Direct copying of non-local items would result in wrong properties on
iPods. (BR 135681)
* Honor setting to show Amarok's menu in main toolbar.
* "Burn this album" would burn all albums of the same name. (BR 121963)
* Ignore double-clicks on tree item openers. (BR 125121)
* Visibility of sidebar tabs would depend on the current locale. (BR 135316)
* Ctrl-C for copying urls from the tag editor would not work when selected
with the mouse. (BR 123327)
* Check for some integral data types for improved DAAP portability.
(BR 132939)
* Take disc number into account when checking if a song is already on an
iPod. (BR 135643)
* Editing metadata in the playlist itself now matches possible alternatives
case-insensitively. (BR 135683)
* Fix loading directory in external browser in the tag editor when the path
contains parentheses. (BR 132961)
* Stop scripts using a proxy when it's disabled in KDE. Patch by Felix Geyer
<sniperbeamer_disc1@fobos.de>.
* While playing Last.fm Streams, sometimes metadata wouldn't be updated
on track changes. Patch by Tom Kaitchuck <tkaitchuck@comcast.net>.
* Speed patch to load playlist columns from statistic tables on population
of the playlist, makes adding to the playlist and starting up faster.
Thanks Ovy <ovy@alum.mit.edu>! (BR 135324)
* Save MTP playlists when they are renamed so we don't lose changes.
* Prevent new podcastepisodes from showing up in the playlistbrowser twice
by opening it's parent before adding. (BR 134108)
* New iPods would not get initialized.
* Files that were detected as being added back to the collection would not
always be re-enabled in the Playlist. (BR 130359)
* Fix some spelling and layout issues. Part of a patch by Malcolm Parsons
<malcolm.parsons@gmail.com>.
* Correctly handle horizontal wheel events in position slider. (BR 119254)
* Don't rescan collection while transcoding. (BR 133423)
* Don't try to copy to collection from urls without kio slaves.
* Don't quit immediately if amarokrc was removed. (BR 134439)
* The DAAP client would crash Amarok under certain conditions when
kdelibs was compiled with asserts on. (BR 132851)
* Configuring the toolbar would disable the stop button. Patch by
Markus Kaufhold <M.Kaufhold@gmx.de>. (BR 132477)
* Changed tags of songs on iPods would not propagate to its database.
(BR 133842)
* Fixed playlist encoding problems. (BR 133613)
* Cover images for compilation albums can now be displayed full size in
the context browser.
* Dragging compilation albums from the collection browser or the playlist
would show multiple cover images in the tooltip. (BR 133916)
* Don't crash when calling repopulate dynamic mode from dcop. (BR 133716)
* Last.fm streams work with proxies. (BR 131137)
* Don't try to read m4a tags from apparently invalid files. (BR 133288)
* Some podcasts would insert line breaks in author/title information and
cause graphical errors. (BR 133591)
* File tracking could fail on files that were copies of each other but
with different ID3v1 or APE tags.
Eawpats has been superceeded by FreePats. Eawpats was in large part
derived from the early 1990's MIDIA package for SGI. Unbeknowst to me at
the time, the majority of the MIDIA patches were directly derived from the
commercial Gravis Ultrasound patch set. When I eventually discovered
this, I removed all of the Gravis copyrighted patches (about half of
the total) from the collection and redistribution of Eawpats was
discontinued. The remainder was continued on as Freepats, but is lacking
many instruments, especially the drums :(
LAME 3.97 September 24 2006
* 3.97 beta 3 becomes 3.97
LAME 3.97 beta 3 August 19 2006
* Gabriel Bouvigne:
o Workaround against a short blocks detection issue
LAME 3.97 beta 2 November 26 2005
* Gabriel Bouvigne:
o Fixed an initialization error when input is not using a standard sampling frequency
o Fixed a possible assertion failure in very low bitrate encoding
o Slight change regarding ATH adjustment with V5
o Reinstated bit reservoir for 320kbps CBR
o ReplayGain analysis should now be faster when encountering silent parts
* Takehiro Tominaga:
o Fixed a possible link problem of assembly code
LAME 3.97 beta 1 September 12 2005
* Takehiro Tominaga:
o Fixed an out of array access in mp3rtp
o Fixed a quality setting in DLL
o Fixed display when using --silent
* Vitaly Ivanov:
o Updated DirectShow interface
* Robert Hegemann:
o Fixed an out of array access
o Fixed some small rounding problem in vbr-new quantization routines
o Fixed a bug in vbr-new regarding high frequencies (sfb21) when using -Y
o Fixed a few bugs in vbr-new when using -Y
o Updated scalefactors allocation scheme in vbr-new
o Fixed mingw32 configure problems
o Resolved some compiler warnings
o Updated command-line visualisation
* Gabriel Bouvigne:
o Changed some FLOAT8 to FLOAT
o Added project files for VC7
o Reworked -q1 and -q0
o Updated presets
o Fixed an error in ISO quantization on systems not using the IEEE754 hack
o Faster quantization
o SSE version of init_xrpow
* Rog�io Brito:
o Updated Debian packaging
o Documentation work
* Chris Miller:
o Support for x64 platform SDK in makefile.msvc
version 0.5.2:
- Case insensitive checking for the .mp3 extension. (#1515)
- Fallback to TDRC if TDRL is not found, when reading ID3v2.3 tags. (#2190)
- Ignore "MP3ext" in the padding area of ID3 tags. (#2123)
- Fixes for DragonFly BSD and new versions of NetBSD. Patch
by tk@giga.or.at (#2048)
- Load plugins from "$(libdir)/tunepimp/plugins" instead of hard-coded
path "$(prefix)/lib/tunepimp/plugins".
and other POSIX unixes. It may eventually support Win32 as well.
Some random features that it supports:
Supports the Roku SoundBridge (query/browse/index support)
Supports periodic rescans of the database
Can advertise shoutcast streams
Supports password-protected shares
Is web-configurable and managable
Support dynamic playlists, like iTunes "Smart playlists"
Probably other things I've forgotten
All is not perfect, however. Currently, there are several drawbacks to it:
database is indexed by inode, so all music must be on one filesystem
browse by artist is slow on Roku, times out (with large databases ~10K songs)
Probably other things I've forgotten
changes:
-improvements to plugin infrastructure and more plugins
-Tag writing and ipod-write support turned on by default
-Local file support for album art plugin
-Gnome-keyring support for storing DAAP password
-improvements, bug fixes and new minor features
web service, as well as parsing the MusicBrainz Metadata XML (MMD),
or calculating DiscIDs from Audio CDs.
The MusicBrainz Project (see http://musicbrainz.org) collects music
metadata and is maintained by its large and constantly growing user
community.
It reads a CD's table of contents (TOC) and generates an identifier which
can be used to lookup the CD at MusicBrainz (http://musicbrainz.org).
Additionally, it provides a submission URL for adding the DiscID to
the database.
The interface of this library is new, but the DiscID algorithm and the
operating system dependent CD-ROM/DVD-ROM access code have been ported
from libmusicbrainz version 2.
