changelog

Aqualung is an advanced music player primarily targeted for the GNU/Linux operating system, but als

2006-10-03	Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net>

    * Aqualung 0.9beta6
        http://aqualung.sf.net

	This release introduces a fair number of substantial improvements:

	* Music Store builder: automatically build a Music Store by scanning the
	  files on disk. Perform CDDB lookups & extract metadata on the fly.

	* MPEG decoder enhancements: robust file recognition, VBR and UBR file
	  support, frame-accurate seeking, true gapless playback via eliminating
	  encoder padding+delay read from LAME headers.

	* Fully revamped metadata support using TagLib. The result is a more
	  complete implementation also supporting APE tags in Musepack files.

	* Automatic output driver detection: ability to startup without command
	  line arguments (using default driver parameters).
	
	* Systray (a.k.a. Notification Area) support.

	* Handling of compressed MOD files (.gz and .bz2).

	* Resolved issue with JACK memory locking (which previously resulted in
	  runaway memory consumption).

	* Aqualung compiles & runs under FreeBSD and Cygwin.


    NEW LIBRARY DEPENDENCIES:
	
	* TagLib >= 1.4 is now required for metadata support.
	  http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html

	* GTK+ >= 2.10 is needed for the (optional) Systray support.


    DROPPED DEPENDENCIES:
	
	* libid3tag library is not required anymore (succeeded by TagLib).


2006-06-30	Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net>

    * Aqualung 0.9beta5
        http://aqualung.sf.net

	This is a new milestone release after 17 months of silent
	development. Large parts of the program have been rewritten,
	refactored, fixed, etc. A multitude of new features have been
	added to the software, which now weighs into Open Source with
	about 30,000 lines of GPL'ed source code written by a handful of
	free-time developers (no, you won't need your whole hand).

	It won't make too much sense to precisely list every change made
	to the sources during this period - the list would be prohibitively
	lengthy. For the curious, the mailing list archive is recommended.
	The most important, high-level changes are summarized below.

	
	* Group CDs in the Playlist via "Album mode". Shuffle between
	  records but play their contents in order!

	* Statusbars in Playlist and Music Store display statistics and
	  other data.

	* Multiple Music Stores are supported - useful for separate
	  genres, file formats or for music mounted from different file
	  servers via NFS.

	* CDDB support!

	* iFP driver support for integrating with iRiver HW players!
	
	* Completely reworked Settings dialog, the new control center!

	* Embed Playlist into Main window for a more compact look!

	* Search facility for Music Store and Playlist.
	
	* Add support for Musepack (via libmpcdec), Monkey's Audio, Ogg Speex.

	* Rudimentary album art (cover display) support.
	
	* RVA-related work, improved metadata support.
	
	* Fixed a boatload of bugs concerning cyrillic filenames, etc.

	* MP3 improvements (file recognition, clipping, seeking...)

	* Better fault tolerance in Ogg Vorbis decoder.

	* Various GUI fixes, new command line options, etc, etc.

	* Improved build system for skins, icons, etc.

	* New skins (Ocean, Plain), new Logo (see About box)! ;-)

	* Better RT behaviour with Jack output
	
	* Compiles and runs on AMD64 (thanks to Mark Knecht for testing)!

	
2005-01-30	Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net>

    * Aqualung 0.9beta4.1

	This minor release fixes a crashing bug discovered shortly
	after the release of beta4. No new functionality was added.
	

2005-01-28	Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net>

    * Aqualung 0.9beta4
	http://aqualung.sf.net

    INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES: [none]
	
    NEW LIBRARY DEPENDENCIES:
	
	* liblrdf 0.4.0 is now required (was: 0.3.7)
	  http://lrdf.sourceforge.net
	
	* libid3tag library required if you want ID3v2 support
	  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12349

    MAJOR CHANGES:

	* Internationalization support via gettext. German, Hungarian
	  and Ukrainian translations available; new translations for any
	  language happily accepted at any time

	* Implemented read support for .m3u and .pls
	  playlist formats. The formats are distinguished using
	  file extensions (case insensitive). Now you can supply .m3u or .pls
	  files on the command line, or select one in the Load/Enqueue Playlist
	  option of the playlist window's popup menu. Aqualung does not
	  implement shoutcast ATM, so URLs will be simply discarded.

	* new 'File info' dialog box (accessible from the Music Store and
	  the Playlist) displays FLAC stream metadata, Ogg Vorbis comments and
	  ID3v2 tags found in the soundfiles.

	* playback RVA support. Aqualung has its own system for this, from
	  volume level calculation of files in the Music Store, to adjusting
	  the dynamics characteristics to your listening environment.

	* Import FLAC/Vorbis/ID3v2 metadata into the Music Store via the
	  'File info' dialog accessed from the Music Store.
	  On the right side of the tag data fields, there are buttons
	  to import every piece of information into relevant fields
	  of the Music Store database.
	  In particular, ID3v2.4 RVA tags can be imported as manual RVA
	  adjustment values.

	* many changes to enable displaying track lengths and RVA values
	  in the Playlist. You can configure the column order in the Playlist,
	  and displaying Lengths and RVA values can be turned off.
	  (Track lengths are shown on the right side, RVA is hidden by default.)
	 
	* New Settings notebook page "Playlist" for configuring the behavior of
	  this stuff.

	* new remote option to terminate an already running instance:
	  the -Q or --quit option will cause the instance specified by -N, or
	  the 0-th instance by default, to terminate (just as if you exited it
	  normally).
	
	* added support for remotely changing the volume via the --volume or
	  -V option. Defaults to the 0th running instance.

	* major code rearrangement of Aqualung Core
	  (file decoder is abstracted, runnable in multiple instances at the
	  same time, separated in file_decoder.[ch])

	* added all four basic aqualung skins (dark, default, metal, woody) to
	  CVS. These are automatically available after a make install from now,
	  no need to install them separately.
	 
	* also, the skins have been updated to match recent new dialogs & widgets
	 
	* docs update (manpage, HTML) for the beta4 release.

    MINOR CHANGES:
	
	* ./configure won't stop anymore if an optional library is missing,
	  unless --with-PACKAGE is applied. Closes mantis bug #16.

	* Changes to the interface for adding files to the playlist
	  locally or remotely

	* Implemented conversion from/to UTF8/locale charset. (Closes mantis
	  bug #7).  Note: please set the environment variable G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
	  or G_FILENAME_ENCODING appropriately if your filesystem encoding is
	  not UTF8. See http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/glib/glib-running.html
	  for details.

	* Starting playback of a new track via double-clicking
	  on it in the playlist is now allowed when another track
	  is being paused. (Closes bug #14)
	
	* Implemented cue-from-paused-state functions (re: bug #15) as
	  suggested by SGh.

	* Added check for pkg-config -exist "jack" to configure.ac.
	  Up till now, the ./configure script failed to detect the condition
	  when the jack daemon is present, but development files are not.
	  (As if you installed JACK from a distro, but forgot to include
	  the corresponding -dev package.)

	* Implement trashlist object to collect and eventually
	  free pieces of memory that are malloc'ed in an ad-hoc
	  manner in different places, but need to be freed sometime.
	 
	* Use the trashlist to collect and free some memory that
	  was leaked until now in LADSPA plugin dialogs and the
	  File info dialog.

	* renamed "Options" dialog to "Settings". This name better suits the
	  purpose of this dialog.
	 
	* minor rearrangement of "Add Artist", "Edit Artist", "Add Record",
	  "Edit Record", "Add Track" & "Edit Track" dialogs, hopefully for
	  the better.

	* changed About box font to normal (Courier is not always available)
	 
	* Workaround LADSPA plugin loading bug on ReiserFS
	  (use the --with-brokenplfix configure option)


2004-09-09	Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net>

	* Added support for remotely controlling running instances as well
	  as adding new files to their playlists.

	* Added support for adding files to playlist from the command
	  line.

	* Display instance numbers in title bar (except for the first
	  instance)

	* Minor fixes to the internal cueing logic.

	* Aqualung 0.9beta3
	
	
2004-09-06	Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net>

	* Added support for MOD file formats (MOD, S3M, XM, IT, etc.)

	* When using JACK output with custom client name, this client name
	  is displayed in the title bar of the main window

	* Aqualung 0.9beta2
	

2004-09-03	Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net>

	* First public release: Aqualung 0.9beta1