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Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +000052 This is an informal changelog, a summary of changes in each release. (See also <a href="documentation_bugs.html">known bugs</a>.) Particulary important for developers is the precise description of changes to the library interfaces. See also the <a href="api/group__porting.html">porting guide</a> for specific instructions on porting to newer versions of FLAC.<br />
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Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +000056 <a name="flac_1_2_1"><b>FLAC 1.2.1</b></a>
57
58 <br />
59
60 <ul>
61 <li>
62 General:
63 <ul>
Josh Coalson98bd9942007-08-31 06:06:43 +000064 <li>With the new <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_keep_foreign_metadata">--keep-foreign-metadata</a></span> in <span class="commandname">flac</span>, non-audio RIFF and AIFF chunks can be stored in FLAC files and recreated when decoding. This allows, among other, things support for archiving BWF files and other WAVE files from editing tools that preserves all the metadata. </li>
Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +000065 </ul>
66 </li>
67 <li>
68 FLAC format:
69 <ul>
Josh Coalson98bd9942007-08-31 06:06:43 +000070 <li>Specified 2 new APPLICATION metadata blocks for storing WAVE and AIFF chunks (for use with <a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_keep_foreign_metadata">--keep-foreign-metadata</a></span> in <span class="commandname">flac</span>).</li>
Josh Coalson29008f42007-07-31 00:47:55 +000071 <li>The lead-out track number for non-CDDA cuesheets now must be 255.</li>
Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +000072 </ul>
73 </li>
74 <li>
75 Ogg FLAC format:
76 <ul>
Josh Coalson12d3a412007-08-01 03:02:00 +000077 <li>This is not a format change, but changed default extension for Ogg FLAC from .ogg to .oga, according to new Xiph <a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions">specification</a> (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1762492&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1762492</a> </li>
Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +000078 </ul>
79 </li>
80 <li>
81 flac:
82 <ul>
83 <li>Added a new option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_no_utf8_convert">--no-utf8-convert</a></span> which works like it does in <span class="commandname">metaflac</span> (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=973740&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=363478">SF #973740</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson98bd9942007-08-31 06:06:43 +000084 <li>Added a new option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_keep_foreign_metadata">--keep-foreign-metadata</a></span> which can save/restore RIFF and AIFF chunks to/from FLAC files (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=568264&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=363478">SF #363478</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson12d3a412007-08-01 03:02:00 +000085 <li>Changed default extension for Ogg FLAC from .ogg to .oga, according to new Xiph <a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions">specification</a> (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1762492&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1762492</a> </li>
Josh Coalson7992b942007-07-31 00:35:33 +000086 <li>Fixed bug where using <span class="argument">--replay-gain</span> without any padding option caused only a small PADDING block to be created (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1760790&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1760790</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson29008f42007-07-31 00:47:55 +000087 <li>Fixed bug where importing non-CDDA cuesheets would cause an invalid lead-out track number (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1764105&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1764105</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +000088 </ul>
89 </li>
90 <li>
91 metaflac:
92 <ul>
Josh Coalson29008f42007-07-31 00:47:55 +000093 <li>Fixed bug where importing non-CDDA cuesheets would cause an invalid lead-out track number (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1764105&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1764105</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson12d3a412007-08-01 03:02:00 +000094 <li>Changed default extension for Ogg FLAC from .ogg to .oga, according to new Xiph <a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions">specification</a> (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1762492&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1762492</a> </li>
Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +000095 </ul>
96 </li>
97 <li>
98 plugins:
99 <ul>
100 <li>(none)</li>
101 </ul>
102 </li>
103 <li>
104 build system:
105 <ul>
Josh Coalson367c1582007-08-29 05:45:19 +0000106 <li>New configure option <span class="argument">--disable-cpplibs</span> to prevent building libFLAC++ (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1723295&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=313478">SF #1723295</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson42c22d52007-07-26 08:01:40 +0000107 <li>Fixed bug compiling <span class="commandname">flac</span> without Ogg support (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1760786&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1760786</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson8403c2a2007-07-31 00:25:52 +0000108 <li>Fixed bug where sometimes an existing installation of flac could interfere with the build process (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1763690&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1763690</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson17af3402007-09-08 22:49:07 +0000109 <li>OS X fixes (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1786225&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=313478">SF #1786225</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsone32fad52007-09-08 22:29:45 +0000110 <li>MinGW fixes (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1684879&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1684879</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson968e4bd2007-09-09 06:57:27 +0000111 <li>Solaris 10 fixes (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1783225&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1783225</a> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1783630&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1783630</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsone2fea292007-08-31 05:55:50 +0000112 <li>OS/2 fixes (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1771378&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1771378</a> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1229495&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1229495</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson749299c2007-09-11 07:36:56 +0000113 <li>automake-1.10 fixes (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1791361&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1791361</a> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1792179&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1792179</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +0000114 </ul>
115 </li>
116 <li>
117 libraries:
118 <ul>
Josh Coalsond54eb032007-08-29 00:45:01 +0000119 <li>libFLAC: Fixed very rare seek bug (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1684049&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1684049</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson902e8d62007-09-11 07:34:45 +0000120 <li>libFLAC: Fixed seek bug with Ogg FLAC and small streams (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1792172&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1792172</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsone32fad52007-09-08 22:29:45 +0000121 <li>libFLAC: 64-bit fixes (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1790872&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1790872</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +0000122 </ul>
123 </li>
124 <li>
125 Interface changes (see also the <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/api/group__porting__1__2__0__to__1__2__1.html">porting guide</a> for specific instructions on porting to FLAC 1.2.1):
126 <ul>
127 <li>
128 libFLAC:
129 <ul>
Josh Coalson09ccf202007-08-14 00:34:50 +0000130 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_simple_iterator_is_last()</li>
131 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_simple_iterator_get_block_offset()</li>
132 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_simple_iterator_get_block_length()</li>
Josh Coalson4e56b062007-08-15 05:59:09 +0000133 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_simple_iterator_get_application_id()</li>
Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +0000134 </ul>
135 </li>
136 <li>
137 libFLAC++:
138 <ul>
Josh Coalson09ccf202007-08-14 00:34:50 +0000139 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::SimpleIterator::is_last()</li>
140 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::SimpleIterator::get_block_offset()</li>
141 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::SimpleIterator::get_block_length()</li>
Josh Coalson4e56b062007-08-15 05:59:09 +0000142 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::SimpleIterator::get_application_id()</li>
Josh Coalson21a4b6b2007-07-26 07:57:51 +0000143 </ul>
144 </li>
145 </ul>
146 </li>
147 </ul>
148
149 <br />
150
Josh Coalsond0255952007-07-07 06:08:42 +0000151 <a name="flac_1_2_0"><b>FLAC 1.2.0</b></a>
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000152
153 <br />
154
155 <ul>
156 <li>
157 General:
158 <ul>
Josh Coalson00ee6342007-07-16 06:08:48 +0000159 <li>Small encoding speedups for all modes.</li>
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000160 </ul>
161 </li>
162 <li>
163 FLAC format:
164 <ul>
Josh Coalsonca70f162007-07-07 07:01:36 +0000165 <li>One of the reserved bits in the FLAC frame header has been assigned for future use; make sure to refer to the <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/api/group__porting__1__1__4__to__1__2__0.html">porting guide</a> if you parse FLAC streams manually.</li>
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000166 </ul>
167 </li>
168 <li>
169 Ogg FLAC format:
170 <ul>
171 <li>(none)</li>
172 </ul>
173 </li>
174 <li>
175 flac:
176 <ul>
Josh Coalsond0255952007-07-07 06:08:42 +0000177 <li>Added runtime detection of SSE OS support for most operating systems.</li>
Josh Coalson224177c2007-07-10 02:08:51 +0000178 <li>Added a new undocumented option <span class="argument">--ignore-chunk-sizes</span> for ignoring the size of the 'data' chunk (WAVE) or 'SSND' chunk (AIFF). Can be used to encode files with bogus data sizes (e.g. with WAV files piped from foobar2000 to flac.exe as an external encoder). <b>Use with caution</b>: all subsequent data is treated as audio, so the data/SSND chunk must be the last or the following data/tags will be treated as audio and encoded.</li>
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000179 </ul>
180 </li>
181 <li>
182 metaflac:
183 <ul>
184 <li>(none)</li>
185 </ul>
186 </li>
187 <li>
188 plugins:
189 <ul>
190 <li>(none)</li>
191 </ul>
192 </li>
193 <li>
194 build system:
195 <ul>
Josh Coalsond0255952007-07-07 06:08:42 +0000196 <li>Added solution and project files for building with VC++ 2005.</li>
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000197 </ul>
198 </li>
199 <li>
200 libraries:
201 <ul>
Josh Coalsond0255952007-07-07 06:08:42 +0000202 <li>Added runtime detection of SSE OS support for most operating systems.</li>
Josh Coalson224177c2007-07-10 02:08:51 +0000203 <li>Fixed bug where invalid seek tables could cause some seeks to fail.</li>
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000204 </ul>
205 </li>
206 <li>
Josh Coalsond0255952007-07-07 06:08:42 +0000207 Interface changes (see also the <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/api/group__porting__1__1__4__to__1__2__0.html">porting guide</a> for specific instructions on porting to FLAC 1.2.0):
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000208 <ul>
209 <li>
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000210 libFLAC:
211 <ul>
Josh Coalson2258fa82007-03-30 01:02:40 +0000212 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__format_sample_rate_is_subset()</li>
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000213 </ul>
214 </li>
215 <li>
216 libFLAC++:
217 <ul>
Josh Coalsona4f93912007-04-05 00:49:41 +0000218 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Decoder::Stream::get_decode_position()</li>
Josh Coalson32821c02007-02-22 02:56:16 +0000219 </ul>
220 </li>
221 </ul>
222 </li>
223 </ul>
224
225 <br />
226
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000227 <a name="flac_1_1_4"><b>FLAC 1.1.4</b></a>
228
229 <br />
230
231 <ul>
232 <li>
233 General:
234 <ul>
Josh Coalsonfcbbf662007-02-14 06:00:26 +0000235 <li>Improved compression with no change to format or decrease in speed.</li>
Josh Coalson9a486212007-02-08 16:22:06 +0000236 <li>Encoding and decoding speedups for all modes. Encoding at -8 is twice as fast.</li>
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000237 </ul>
238 </li>
239 <li>
240 FLAC format:
241 <ul>
242 <li>(none)</li>
243 </ul>
244 </li>
245 <li>
246 Ogg FLAC format:
247 <ul>
248 <li>(none)</li>
249 </ul>
250 </li>
251 <li>
252 flac:
253 <ul>
Josh Coalsonfcbbf662007-02-14 06:00:26 +0000254 <li>Improved compression with no change to format or decrease in speed.</li>
Josh Coalson9a486212007-02-08 16:22:06 +0000255 <li>Encoding and decoding speedups for all modes. Encoding at -8 is twice as fast.</li>
Josh Coalson516532d2007-02-08 06:19:21 +0000256 <li>Added a new option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_warnings_as_errors">-w,--warnings-as-errors</a></span> for treating all warnings as errors.</li>
257 <li>Allow <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_picture">--picture</a></span> option to take only a filename, and have all other attributes extracted from the file itself.</li>
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000258 <li>Fixed a bug that caused suboptimal default compression settings in some locales (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1608883&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1608883</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson4de80522006-12-14 01:08:15 +0000259 <li>Fixed a bug where FLAC-to-FLAC transcoding of a corrupted FLAC file would truncate the transcoded file at the first error (<a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1615019&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1615019</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +0000260 <li>Fixed a bug where using <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_decode_through_errors">-F</a></span> with FLAC-to-FLAC transcoding of a corrupted FLAC would have no effect (<a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1615391&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1615391</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson9a486212007-02-08 16:22:06 +0000261 <li>Fixed a bug where new PICTURE metadata blocks specified with <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_picture">--picture</a></span> would not be transferred during FLAC-to-FLAC transcoding (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1627993&group_id=13478&atid=113478">SF #1627993</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000262 </ul>
263 </li>
264 <li>
265 metaflac:
266 <ul>
Josh Coalson516532d2007-02-08 06:19:21 +0000267 <li>Allow <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_metaflac.html#metaflac_shorthand_import_picture_from">--import-picture-from</a></span> option to take only a filename, and have all other attributes extracted from the file itself.</li>
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000268 </ul>
269 </li>
270 <li>
271 plugins:
272 <ul>
Josh Coalson516532d2007-02-08 06:19:21 +0000273 <li>Fixed a bug in the XMMS plugin where Ctrl-3 (file info) would cause a crash if the file did not exist (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1634941&amp;group_id=13478&amp;amp;atid=313478">SF #1634941</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000274 </ul>
275 </li>
276 <li>
277 build system:
278 <ul>
Josh Coalson516532d2007-02-08 06:19:21 +0000279 <li>Fixed a makefile linkage bug with libogg (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1611414&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1611414</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson9a486212007-02-08 16:22:06 +0000280 <li>Added pkg-config files for libFLAC and libFLAC++ (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1647881&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=313478">SF #1647881</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsonc0f51e72007-02-09 16:18:38 +0000281 <li>Added <span class=argument>--disable-ogg</span> option for building without Ogg support even if libogg is installed (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1196996&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1196996</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000282 </ul>
283 </li>
284 <li>
285 libraries:
286 <ul>
Josh Coalson9a486212007-02-08 16:22:06 +0000287 <li>Completely rewritten bitbuffer which uses native machine word size instead of bytes for dramatic speed improvements. The speedup should be most dramatic on CPUs with slower byte manipulation capability and big-endian machines.</li>
Josh Coalson8640da32007-02-04 01:42:08 +0000288 <li>Much faster Rice partition size estimation which greatly speeds encoding in higher modes.</li>
Josh Coalson9a486212007-02-08 16:22:06 +0000289 <li>Increased compression for all modes.</li>
290 <li>Reduced memory requirements for encoder and decoder.</li>
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000291 <li>Fixed a bug with default apodization settings that were erroneous in some locales (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1608883&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1608883</a>).</li>
292 </ul>
293 </li>
294 <li>
Josh Coalson9a486212007-02-08 16:22:06 +0000295 Interface changes:
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000296 <ul>
297 <li>
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000298 libFLAC:
299 <ul>
Josh Coalsonfcbbf662007-02-14 06:00:26 +0000300 <li>(behavior only) FLAC__stream_encoder_set_metadata() now makes a copy of the "metadata" array of pointers (but still not copies of the objects themselves) so the client does not need to maintain its copy of the array after the call.</li>
Josh Coalson4e8fe852006-12-05 01:36:46 +0000301 </ul>
302 </li>
303 <li>
304 libFLAC++:
305 <ul>
306 <li>(none)</li>
307 </ul>
308 </li>
309 </ul>
310 </li>
311 </ul>
312
313 <br />
314
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000315 <a name="flac_1_1_3"><b>FLAC 1.1.3</b></a>
316
317 <br />
318
319 <ul>
320 <li>
321 General:
322 <ul>
Josh Coalson6d8ce242006-10-07 01:19:20 +0000323 <li>Improved compression with no impact on format or decoding speed.</li>
Josh Coalson1a8afc72006-07-06 07:49:07 +0000324 <li>Much better recovery for corrupted files</li>
Josh Coalsonb51392b2006-10-06 05:51:13 +0000325 <li>Better multichannel support</li>
Josh Coalson6d8ce242006-10-07 01:19:20 +0000326 <li>Large file (&gt;2GB) support everywhere</li>
Josh Coalson15723782006-11-21 01:42:10 +0000327 <li><span class="commandname">flac</span> now supports FLAC and Ogg FLAC as input to the encoder (e.g. can re-encode FLAC to FLAC) and preserve all the metadata like tags, etc.</li>
Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +0000328 <li>New <span class="code"><a href="format.html#def_PICTURE">PICTURE</a></span> metadata block for storing things like cover art, new <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_picture">--picture</a></span> option to <span class="commandname">flac</span> and <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_metaflac.html#metaflac_shorthand_import_picture_from">--import-picture-from</a></span> option to <span class="commandname">metaflac</span> for importing pictures, new <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_metaflac.html#metaflac_shorthand_export_picture_to">--export-picture-to</a></span> option to <span class="commandname">metaflac</span> for exporting pictures, and metadata API <a href="api/group__flac__metadata__level0.html#ga3">additions</a> for searching for suitable pictures based on type, size and color constraints.</li>
Josh Coalsonb292e752006-09-14 00:40:03 +0000329 <li>Support for new <tt>REPLAYGAIN_REFERENCE_LOUDNESS</tt> tag.</li>
Josh Coalson15723782006-11-21 01:42:10 +0000330 <li>Fixed a bug in Ogg FLAC encoding where metadata was not being updated properly. Existing Ogg FLAC files should be recoded to fix up the metadata, e.g. <span class="command">flac -Vf -S 10s --ogg file.ogg</span></li>
Josh Coalson8da98c82006-10-15 04:24:05 +0000331 <li>In the developer libraries, the interface has been simplfied by merging the three decoding layers into a single class; ditto for the encoders. Also, libOggFLAC has been merged into libFLAC and libOggFLAC++ has been merged into libFLAC++ so there is a single API supporting both native FLAC and Ogg FLAC.</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000332 </ul>
333 </li>
334 <li>
335 FLAC format:
336 <ul>
Josh Coalsonaec8bb32006-11-02 04:06:56 +0000337 <li>New <span class="code"><a href="format.html#def_PICTURE">PICTURE</a></span> metadata block for storing things like cover art.</li>
Josh Coalsond0edb972006-10-07 06:50:08 +0000338 <li>Speaker assignments and channel orders for 3-6 channels (see <a href="format.html#frame_header">frame header</a>).</li>
339 <li>Further restrictions on the <a href="format.html#subset">FLAC subset</a> when the sample rate is &lt;=48kHz; in this case the maximum LPC order is now 12 and maximum blocksize is 4608. This is to further limit the processing and memory requirements for hardware implementations while not measurably affecting compression.</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000340 </ul>
341 </li>
342 <li>
343 Ogg FLAC format:
344 <ul>
345 <li>(none)</li>
346 </ul>
347 </li>
348 <li>
349 flac:
350 <ul>
Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +0000351 <li>Improved the <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_decode_through_errors">-F</a></span> option to allow decoding of FLAC files whose metadata is corrupted, and other kinds of severe corruption.</li>
Josh Coalsonc28efe22006-11-04 03:04:21 +0000352 <li>Encoder can now take FLAC and Ogg FLAC as input. The output FLAC file will have all the same metadata as the original unless overridden with options on the command line.</li>
Josh Coalsonb51392b2006-10-06 05:51:13 +0000353 <li>Encoder can now take WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE WAVE files as input; decoder will output WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE WAVE files when necessary to conform to the latest Microsoft specifications.</li>
354 <li>Now properly supports AIFF and WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE multichannel input, performing necessary channel reordering both for encoding and decoding. WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE channel mask is also saved to a tag on encoding and restored on decoding for situations when there is no natural mapping to FLAC channel assignments.</li>
Josh Coalson6d8ce242006-10-07 01:19:20 +0000355 <li>Expanded support for "odd" sample resolutions to WAVE and AIFF input; all resolutions from 4 to 24 bits-per-sample now supported for all input types.</li>
Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +0000356 <li>Added a new option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_tag_from_file">--tag-from-file</a></span> for setting a tag from file (e.g. for importing a cuesheet as a tag).</li>
357 <li>Added a new option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_picture">--picture</a></span> for adding pictures.</li>
358 <li>Added a new option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_apodization">--apodization</a></span> for specifying the window function(s) to be used in LPC analysis.</li>
Josh Coalson26c82352006-05-18 07:57:16 +0000359 <li>Added support for encoding from non-compressed AIFF-C (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&amp;atid=113478&amp;aid=1090933&amp;group_id=13478">SF #1090933</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsoncee66cf2005-08-24 00:32:40 +0000360 <li>Importing of non-CDDA-compliant cuesheets now only issues a warning, not an error (see <a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=31282">here</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson7688f8e2006-07-07 01:05:33 +0000361 <li>MD5 comparison failures on decoding are now an error instead of a warning and will also return a non-zero exit code (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1493725&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1493725</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson6f5568e2006-09-27 05:02:11 +0000362 <li>The default padding size is now 8K, or 64K if the input audio stream is more than 20 minutes long.</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000363 <li>Fixed a bug in cuesheet parsing where it would return an error if the last line of the cuesheet did not end with a newline.</li>
Josh Coalson7fdd6882005-09-03 01:33:12 +0000364 <li>Fixed a bug that caused a crash when <span class="argument">-a</span> and <span class="argument">-t</span> were used together (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1229481&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1229481</a>).</li>
365 <li>Fixed a bug with --sector-align where appended samples were not always totally silent (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1237707&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1237707</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsondee53392005-08-27 01:52:11 +0000366 <li>Fixed bugs with --sector-align and raw input files.</li>
Josh Coalson7fdd6882005-09-03 01:33:12 +0000367 <li>Fixed a bug printing out unknown AIFF subchunk names (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1267476&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1267476</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsone7c17102006-11-14 05:22:12 +0000368 <li>Fixed a bug where WAVE files with "data" subchunks of size 0 where accepted (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1293830&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1293830</a>).</li>
369 <li>Fixed a bug where sync error at end-of-stream of truncated files was not being caught (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1244071&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1244071</a>).</li>
370 <li>Fixed a problem with filename parsing if file does not have extension but also has a . in the path (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1161916&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1161916</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson8ad9a122006-11-14 06:29:13 +0000371 <li>Fixed a problem with fractional-second parsing for <span class="argument">--skip</span>/<span class="argument">--until</span> in some locales (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1031043&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1031043</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsone7c17102006-11-14 05:22:12 +0000372 <li>Increase progress report rate when -p and -e are used together (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1580122&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1580122</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000373 </ul>
374 </li>
375 <li>
376 metaflac:
377 <ul>
Josh Coalson7d273b42006-11-15 06:12:30 +0000378 <li>Added support for read-only operations on Ogg FLAC files.</li>
Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +0000379 <li>Added a new option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_metaflac.html#metaflac_shorthand_set_tag_from_file">--set-tag-from-file</a></span> for setting a tag from file (e.g. for importing a cuesheet as a tag).</li>
380 <li>Added a new option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_metaflac.html#metaflac_shorthand_import_picture_from">--import-picture-from</a></span> for importing pictures.</li>
381 <li>Added a new option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_metaflac.html#metaflac_shorthand_export_picture_to">--export-picture-to</a></span> for exporting pictures.</li>
382 <li>Added shorthand operation <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_metaflac.html#metaflac_shorthand_remove_replay_gain">--remove-replay-gain</a></span> for removing ReplayGain tags.</li>
383 <li><span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_metaflac.html#metaflac_shorthand_export_cuesheet_to">--export-cuesheet-to</a></span> now properly specifies the FLAC file name (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1272825&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=363478">SF #1272825</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsoncee66cf2005-08-24 00:32:40 +0000384 <li>Importing of non-CDDA-compliant cuesheets now issues a warning.</li>
Josh Coalson2e29c932006-09-26 01:25:52 +0000385 <li>Removed the following deprecated tag editing options; you should use the new option names shown instead:
386 <ul>
387 <li>Removed <span class="argument">--show-vc-vendor</span>; use <span class="argument">--show-vendor-tag</span></li>
388 <li>Removed <span class="argument">--show-vc-field</span>; use <span class="argument">--show-tag</span></li>
389 <li>Removed <span class="argument">--remove-vc-all</span>; use <span class="argument">--remove-all-tags</span></li>
390 <li>Removed <span class="argument">--remove-vc-field</span>; use <span class="argument">--remove-tag</span></li>
391 <li>Removed <span class="argument">--remove-vc-firstfield</span>; use <span class="argument">--remove-first-tag</span></li>
392 <li>Removed <span class="argument">--set-vc-field</span>; use <span class="argument">--set-tag</span></li>
393 <li>Removed <span class="argument">--import-vc-from</span>; use <span class="argument">--import-tags-from</span></li>
394 <li>Removed <span class="argument">--export-vc-to</span>; use <span class="argument">--export-tags-to</span></li>
395 </ul>
396 </li>
Josh Coalsone7c17102006-11-14 05:22:12 +0000397 <li>Disallow multiple input FLAC files when --import-tags-from=- is used (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1082577&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1082577</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000398 </ul>
399 </li>
400 <li>
401 plugins:
402 <ul>
Josh Coalson95e39a82005-09-01 01:01:08 +0000403 <li>When ReplayGain is on, if tags for the preferred kind of gain (album/track) are not in a stream, the other kind will be used.</li>
Josh Coalsonb1ec7962006-05-24 04:41:36 +0000404 <li>Added ReplayGain info to file info box in XMMS plugin</li>
Josh Coalsonc2af4282005-08-25 00:25:59 +0000405 <li>Fixed UTF-8 decoder to disallow non-shortest-form and surrogate sequences (see <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum1.html">here</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000406 </ul>
407 </li>
408 <li>
409 build system:
410 <ul>
Josh Coalsonde9091e2006-05-25 02:48:22 +0000411 <li>Added support for building on OS/2 with EMX (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1229495&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1229495</a>)</li>
Josh Coalson15723782006-11-21 01:42:10 +0000412 <li>Added support for building with Borland C++ (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1599018&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=313478">SF #1599018</a>)</li>
Josh Coalsonc933c932006-05-25 04:21:43 +0000413 <li>Added a <span class="argument">--disable-xmms-plugin</span> option to <span class="command">configure</span> to prevent building the XMMS plugin (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=930494&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=363478">SF #930494</a>).</li>
414 <li>Added a <span class="argument">--disable-doxygen-docs</span> option to <span class="command">configure</span> for disabling Doxygen-based API doc generation (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1365935&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=313478">SF #1365935</a>).</li>
415 <li>Added a <span class="argument">--disable-thorough-tests</span> option to <span class="command">configure</span> to do the basic library, stream, and tool tests in a reasonable time (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1077948&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=363478">SF #1077948</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsonb1ec7962006-05-24 04:41:36 +0000416 <li>Added large file support with <span class="argument">AC_SYS_LARGEFILE</span>; use <span class="argument">--disable-largefile</span> with <span class="command">configure</span> to disable.</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000417 </ul>
418 </li>
419 <li>
420 libraries:
421 <ul>
Josh Coalson8da98c82006-10-15 04:24:05 +0000422 <li>Merged libOggFLAC into libFLAC; both formats are now supporte through the same API.</li>
423 <li>Merged libOggFLAC++ into libFLAC++; both formats are now supporte through the same API.</li>
Josh Coalson1a90ac42006-11-03 16:15:02 +0000424 <li>libFLAC and libFLAC++: Simplified encoder setup with new <span class="argument">FLAC__stream_encoder_set_compression_level()</span> function.</li>
Josh Coalson6d8ce242006-10-07 01:19:20 +0000425 <li>libFLAC: Improved compression with no impact on FLAC format or decoding time by adding a windowing stage before LPC analysis.</li>
Josh Coalson15723782006-11-21 01:42:10 +0000426 <li>libFLAC: Fixed a bug where missing STREAMINFO fields (min/max framesize, total samples, MD5 sum) and seek point offsets were not getting rewritten back to Ogg FLAC file (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1338969&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1338969</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000427 <li>libFLAC: Fixed a bug in cuesheet parsing where it would return an error if the last line of the cuesheet did not end with a newline.</li>
Josh Coalsonc2af4282005-08-25 00:25:59 +0000428 <li>libFLAC: Fixed UTF-8 decoder to disallow non-shortest-form and surrogate sequences (see <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum1.html">here</a>).</li>
Josh Coalsond9264962005-09-03 01:41:11 +0000429 <li>libFLAC: Fixed a bug in the return value for <span class="argument">FLAC__stream_decoder_set_metadata_respond_application()</span> and <span class="argument">FLAC__stream_decoder_set_metadata_ignore_application()</span> when there was a memory allocation error (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=1235005&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">SF #1235005</a>).</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000430 </ul>
431 </li>
432 <li>
Josh Coalson6b21f662006-09-13 01:42:27 +0000433 Interface changes (see also the <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/api/group__porting__1__1__2__to__1__1__3.html">porting guide</a> for specific instructions on porting to FLAC 1.1.3):
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000434 <ul>
435 <li>
Josh Coalson6b21f662006-09-13 01:42:27 +0000436 all libraries;
437 <ul>
Josh Coalson8da98c82006-10-15 04:24:05 +0000438 <li>Merged libOggFLAC into libFLAC; both formats are now supporte through the same API.</li>
439 <li>Merged libOggFLAC++ into libFLAC++; both formats are now supporte through the same API.</li>
Josh Coalson6b21f662006-09-13 01:42:27 +0000440 <li>Merged seekable stream decoder and file decoder into the stream decoder.</li>
441 <li>Merged seekable stream encoder and file encoder into the stream encoder.</li>
Josh Coalson6d8ce242006-10-07 01:19:20 +0000442 <li>Added #defines for the API version number to make porting easier; see <tt>include/lib*FLAC*/export.h</tt>.</li>
Josh Coalson6b21f662006-09-13 01:42:27 +0000443 </ul>
444 </li>
445 <li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000446 libFLAC:
447 <ul>
Josh Coalson6b21f662006-09-13 01:42:27 +0000448 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__stream_encoder_set_apodization()</li>
Josh Coalson1a90ac42006-11-03 16:15:02 +0000449 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__stream_encoder_set_compression_level()</li>
Josh Coalson7cfac0b2006-04-10 05:37:34 +0000450 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_object_cuesheet_calculate_cddb_id()</li>
451 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_get_cuesheet()</li>
Josh Coalsond63c2312006-09-26 01:02:01 +0000452 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_get_picture()</li>
Josh Coalson7d273b42006-11-15 06:12:30 +0000453 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_chain_read_ogg() and FLAC__metadata_chain_read_ogg_with_callbacks()</li>
Josh Coalsona7dceb92006-11-16 01:35:13 +0000454 <li><b>Changed</b> FLAC__stream_encoder_finish() now returns a FLAC__bool to signal a verify failure, or error processing last frame or updating metadata.</li>
Josh Coalson1a8afc72006-07-06 07:49:07 +0000455 <li><b>Changed</b> FLAC__StreamDecoderState: removed state FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM</li>
456 <li><b>Changed</b> FLAC__StreamDecoderErrorStatus: new error code FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM</li>
457 <li>The above two changes mean that when the decoder encounters what it thinks are unparseable frames from a future decoder, instead of returning a fatal error with the FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM state, it just calls the error callback with FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM and leaves the behavior up to the application.</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000458 </ul>
459 </li>
460 <li>
461 libFLAC++:
462 <ul>
Josh Coalsond63c2312006-09-26 01:02:01 +0000463 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::Picture</li>
Josh Coalson6b21f662006-09-13 01:42:27 +0000464 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Encoder::Stream::set_apodization()</li>
Josh Coalson1a90ac42006-11-03 16:15:02 +0000465 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Encoder::Stream::set_compression_level()</li>
Josh Coalson7cfac0b2006-04-10 05:37:34 +0000466 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::CueSheet::calculate_cddb_id()</li>
467 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::get_cuesheet()</li>
Josh Coalsond63c2312006-09-26 01:02:01 +0000468 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::get_picture()</li>
Josh Coalson7d273b42006-11-15 06:12:30 +0000469 <li><b>Changed</b> FLAC::Metadata::Chain::read() to accept a flag denoting Ogg FLAC input</li>
Josh Coalsona5862262006-11-09 06:58:26 +0000470 <li><b>Changed</b> FLAC::Decoder::Stream::finish() now returns a bool to signal an MD5 failure like FLAC__stream_decoder_finish() does.</li>
Josh Coalsona7dceb92006-11-16 01:35:13 +0000471 <li><b>Changed</b> FLAC::Encoder::Stream::finish() now returns a bool to signal a verify failure, or error processing last frame or updating metadata.</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000472 </ul>
473 </li>
474 <li>
475 libOggFLAC:
476 <ul>
Josh Coalson8da98c82006-10-15 04:24:05 +0000477 <li>Merged into libFLAC.</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000478 </ul>
479 </li>
480 <li>
481 libOggFLAC++:
482 <ul>
Josh Coalson8da98c82006-10-15 04:24:05 +0000483 <li>Merged into libFLAC++.</li>
Josh Coalson0d903aa2005-08-09 00:59:39 +0000484 </ul>
485 </li>
486 </ul>
487 </li>
488 </ul>
489
490 <br />
491
Josh Coalson950e3ca2005-02-09 03:37:59 +0000492 <a name="flac_1_1_2"><b>FLAC 1.1.2</b></a>
Josh Coalson71ed9692004-07-23 05:08:01 +0000493
Josh Coalson950e3ca2005-02-09 03:37:59 +0000494 <br />
Josh Coalson71ed9692004-07-23 05:08:01 +0000495
Josh Coalson950e3ca2005-02-09 03:37:59 +0000496 <ul>
497 <li>
498 General:
499 <ul>
500 <li>Sped up decoding by a few percent overall.</li>
501 <li>Sped up encoding when not using LPC (i.e. when using <span class="commandname">flac</span> options <span class="argument">-0</span>, <span class="argument">-1</span>, <span class="argument">-2</span>, or <span class="argument">-l 0</span>).</li>
502 <li>Fixed a decoding bug that could cause sync errors with some ID3v1-tagged FLAC files.</li>
Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +0000503 <li>Added <a href="documentation_tools_metaflac.html#metaflac">HTML documentation for metaflac</a>.</li>
Josh Coalson950e3ca2005-02-09 03:37:59 +0000504 </ul>
505 </li>
506 <li>
507 FLAC format:
508 <ul>
509 <li>(none)</li>
510 </ul>
511 </li>
512 <li>
513 Ogg FLAC format:
514 <ul>
515 <li>(none)</li>
516 </ul>
517 </li>
518 <li>
519 flac:
520 <ul>
Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +0000521 <li>New option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_input_size">--input-size</a></span> to manually specify the input size when encoding raw samples from stdin.</li>
Josh Coalson950e3ca2005-02-09 03:37:59 +0000522 </ul>
523 </li>
524 <li>
525 metaflac:
526 <ul>
527 <li>(none)</li>
528 </ul>
529 </li>
530 <li>
531 plugins:
532 <ul>
533 <li>Added support for HTTP streaming in XMMS plugin. <b>NOTE</b>: there is a <a href="http://bugs.xmms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2038">bug</a> in the XMMS mpg123 plugin that hijacks FLAC streams; to fix it you will need to add the '.flac' extension to the list of exceptions in <span class="code">Input/mpg123/mpg123.c:is_our_file()</span> in the XMMS sources and recompile.</li>
534 </ul>
535 </li>
536 <li>
537 build system:
538 <ul>
539 <li>(none)</li>
540 </ul>
541 </li>
542 <li>
543 libraries:
544 <ul>
545 <li>libFLAC: Sped up Rice block decoding in the bitbuffer, resulting in decoding speed gains of a few percent.</li>
546 <li>libFLAC: Sped up encoding when not using LPC (i.e. <span class="code">max_lpc_order == 0</span>).</li>
547 <li>libFLAC: Trailing NUL characters maintained on Vorbis comment entries so they can be treated like C strings.</li>
548 <li>libFLAC: More FLAC tag (i.e. Vorbis comment) validation.</li>
549 <li>libFLAC: Fixed a bug in the logic that determines the frame or sample number in a frame header; the bug could cause sync errors with some ID3v1-tagged FLAC files.</li>
550 <li>libFLAC, libOggFLAC: Can now be compiled to use only integer instructions, including encoding. The decoder is almost completely integer anyway but there were a couple places that needed a fixed-point replacement. There is no fixed-point version of LPC analysis yet, so if libFLAC is compiled integer-only, the encoder will behave as if the max LPC order is 0 (i.e. used fixed predictors only). LPC decoding is supported in all cases as it always was integer-only.</li>
551 </ul>
552 </li>
553 <li>
554 Interface changes:
555 <ul>
556 <li>
557 libFLAC:
558 <ul>
559 <li><b>Changed:</b> Metadata object interface now maintains a trailing NUL on Vorbis comment entries for convenience.</li>
560 <li><b>Changed:</b> Metadata object interface now validates all Vorbis comment entries on input and returns false if an entry does not conform to the Vorbis comment spec.</li>
561 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__format_vorbiscomment_entry_name_is_legal()</li>
562 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__format_vorbiscomment_entry_value_is_legal()</li>
563 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__format_vorbiscomment_entry_is_legal()</li>
564 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_object_vorbiscomment_entry_from_name_value_pair()</li>
565 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_object_vorbiscomment_entry_to_name_value_pair()</li>
566 <li><b>Changed</b> the signature of FLAC__metadata_object_vorbiscomment_entry_matches(): the first argument is now <span class="code">FLAC__StreamMetadata_VorbisComment_Entry entry</span> (was <span class="code">const FLAC__StreamMetadata_VorbisComment_Entry *entry</span>), i.e. <span class="code">entry</span> is now pass-by-value.</li>
567 </ul>
568 </li>
569 <li>
570 libFLAC++:
571 <ul>
572 <li><b>Changed:</b> Metadata object interface now maintains a trailing NUL on Vorbis comment values for convenience.</li>
573 <li><b>Changed:</b> Metadata object interface now validates all Vorbis comment entries on input and returns false if an entry does not conform to the Vorbis comment spec.</li>
574 <li><b>Changed:</b> All Metadata objects' operator=() methods now return a reference to themselves.</li>
575 <li><b>Added</b> methods to FLAC::Metadata::VorbisComment::Entry for setting comment values from null-terminated strings:
576 <ul>
577 <li>Entry(const char *field)</li>
578 <li>Entry(const char *field_name, const char *field_value)</li>
579 <li>bool set_field(const char *field)</li>
580 <li>bool set_field_value(const char *field_value)</li>
581 </ul>
582 </li>
583 <li><b>Changed</b> the signature of FLAC::Metadata::VorbisComment::get_vendor_string() and FLAC::Metadata::VorbisComment::set_vendor_string() to use a UTF-8, NUL-terminated string <span class="code">const FLAC__byte *</span> for the vendor string instead of <span class="code">FLAC::Metadata::VorbisComment::Entry</span>.</li>
584 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::*::assign() to all Metadata objects.</li>
585 <li><b>Added</b> bool FLAC::Metadata::get_tags(const char *filename, VorbisComment &amp;tags)</li>
586 </ul>
587 </li>
588 <li>
589 libOggFLAC:
590 <ul>
591 <li>(none)</li>
592 </ul>
593 </li>
594 <li>
595 libOggFLAC++:
596 <ul>
597 <li>(none)</li>
598 </ul>
599 </li>
600 </ul>
601 </li>
602 </ul>
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Josh Coalson71ed9692004-07-23 05:08:01 +0000605
Josh Coalson950e3ca2005-02-09 03:37:59 +0000606 <a name="flac_1_1_1"><b>FLAC 1.1.1</b></a>
Josh Coalson71ed9692004-07-23 05:08:01 +0000607
Josh Coalson950e3ca2005-02-09 03:37:59 +0000608 <br />
609
610 <ul>
611 <li>
612 General:
613 <ul>
614 <li>Ogg FLAC seeking now works</li>
615 <li>New optimizations almost double the decoding speed on PowerPC (e.g. Mac G4/G5)</li>
616 <li>A native OS X release thanks to updated Project Builder and autotools files</li>
617 </ul>
618 </li>
619 <li>
620 FLAC format:
621 <ul>
622 <li>Made invalid the metadata block type 127 so that audio frames can always be distinguished from metadata by seeing 0xff as the first byte. (This was also required for the Ogg FLAC mapping.)</li>
623 </ul>
624 </li>
625 <li>
626 Ogg FLAC format:
627 <ul>
Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +0000628 <li>First official FLAC-&gt;Ogg bitstream mapping standardized (see new <a href="ogg_mapping.html">FLAC-to-Ogg mapping specification</a>). See the documentation for the <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_ogg">--ogg</a></span> switch about having to re-encode older Ogg FLAC files.</li>
Josh Coalson950e3ca2005-02-09 03:37:59 +0000629 </ul>
630 </li>
631 <li>
632 flac:
633 <ul>
634 <li>Print an error when output file already exists instead of automatically overwriting.</li>
Josh Coalson34cc68f2006-12-22 02:53:20 +0000635 <li>New option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_force">-f</a></span> (<span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_force">--force</a></span>) to force overwriting if the output file already exists.</li>
636 <li>New option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_cue">--cue</a></span> to select a specific section to decode using cuesheet track/index points.</li>
637 <li>New option <span class="argument"><a href="documentation_tools_flac.html#flac_options_totally_silent">--totally-silent</a></span> to suppress all output.</li>
Josh Coalson950e3ca2005-02-09 03:37:59 +0000638 <li>New (but undocumented) option <span class="argument">--apply-replaygain-which-is-not-lossless</span> which applies ReplayGain to the decoded output. See <a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17293&amp;st=11">this thread</a> for usage and caveats.</li>
639 <li>When encoding to Ogg FLAC, use a random serial number (instead of 0 as was done before) when a serial number is not specified.</li>
640 <li>When encoding multiple Ogg FLAC streams, <span class="argument">--serial-number</span> or random serial number sets the first number, which is then incremented for subsequent streams (before, the same serial number was used for all streams).</li>
641 <li>Decoder no longer exits with an error when writing to stdout and the pipe is broken.</li>
642 <li>Better explanation of common error messages.</li>
643 <li>Default extension when writing AIFF files is .aif (before, it was .aiff).</li>
644 <li>Write more common representation of SANE numbers in AIFF files.</li>
645 <li>Bug fix: calculating ReplayGain on 48kHz streams.</li>
646 <li>Bug fix: check for supported block alignments in WAVE files.</li>
647 <li>Bug fix: "offset" field in AIFF SSND chunk properly handled.</li>
648 <li>Bug fix: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=679166&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">#679166</a>: flac doesn't respect RIFF subchunk padding byte.</li>
649 <li>Bug fix: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=828391&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">#828391</a>: --add-replay-gain segfaults.</li>
650 <li>Bug fix: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=851155&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">#851155</a>: Can't seek to position in flac file.</li>
651 <li>Bug fix: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=851756&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">#851756</a>: flac --skip --until reads entire file.</li>
652 <li>Bug fix: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=877122&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">#877122</a>: problem parsing cuesheet with CATALOG entry.</li>
653 <li>Bug fix: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&amp;aid=896057&amp;group_id=13478&amp;atid=113478">#896057</a>: parsing ISRC number from cuesheet.</li>
654 </ul>
655 </li>
656 <li>
657 metaflac:
658 <ul>
659 <li>Renamed the tag editing options as follows (the <span class="argument">...-vc-...</span> options still work but are deprecated):
660 <ul>
661 <li><span class="argument">--show-vc-vendor</span> becomes <span class="argument">--show-vendor-tag</span></li>
662 <li><span class="argument">--show-vc-field</span> becomes <span class="argument">--show-tag</span></li>
663 <li><span class="argument">--remove-vc-all</span> becomes <span class="argument">--remove-all-tags</span></li>
664 <li><span class="argument">--remove-vc-field</span> becomes <span class="argument">--remove-tag</span></li>
665 <li><span class="argument">--remove-vc-firstfield</span> becomes <span class="argument">--remove-first-tag</span></li>
666 <li><span class="argument">--set-vc-field</span> becomes <span class="argument">--set-tag</span></li>
667 <li><span class="argument">--import-vc-from</span> becomes <span class="argument">--import-tags-from</span></li>
668 <li><span class="argument">--export-vc-to</span> becomes <span class="argument">--export-tags-to</span></li>
669 </ul>
670 </li>
671 <li>Better explanation of common error messages.</li>
672 <li>Bug fix: calculating ReplayGain on 48kHz streams.</li>
673 <li>Bug fix: incorrect numbers when printing seek points.</li>
674 </ul>
675 </li>
676 <li>
677 plugins:
678 <ul>
679 <li>Speed optimization in ReplayGain synthesis.</li>
680 <li>Speed optimization in XMMS playback.</li>
681 <li>Support for big-endian architectures in XMMS plugin.</li>
682 <li>Removed support for ID3 tags.</li>
683 <li>Bug fix: make hard limiter default to off in XMMS plugin.</li>
684 <li>Bug fix: stream length calculation bug in XMMS plugin, debian bug #200435; <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2733072&amp;forum_id=6312">see also</a>.</li>
685 <li>Bug fix: small memory leak in XMMS plugin.</li>
686 </ul>
687 </li>
688 <li>
689 build system:
690 <ul>
691 <li><span class="code">ordinals.h</span> is now static, not a build-generated file anymore.</li>
692 </ul>
693 </li>
694 <li>
695 libraries:
696 <ul>
697 <li>libFLAC: PPC+Altivec optimizations of some decoder routines.</li>
698 <li>libFLAC: Make stream encoder encode the blocksize and sample rate in the frame header if at all possible (not in STREAMINFO), even if subset encoding was not requested.</li>
699 <li>libFLAC: Bug fix: fixed seek routine where infinite loop could happen when seeking past end of stream.</li>
700 <li>libFLAC, libFLAC++: added methods to skip single frames, useful for quickly finding frame boundaries (see interface changes below).</li>
701 <li>libOggFLAC, libOggFLAC++: New seekable-stream and file encoder and decoder APIs to match native FLAC APIs (see interface changes below).</li>
702 </ul>
703 </li>
704 <li>
705 Interface changes:
706 <ul>
707 <li>
708 libFLAC:
709 <ul>
710 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC__metadata_get_tags()</li>
711 <li><b>Added</b> callback-based versions of metadata editing functions:
712 <ul>
713 <li>FLAC__metadata_chain_read_with_callbacks()</li>
714 <li>FLAC__metadata_chain_write_with_callbacks()</li>
715 <li>FLAC__metadata_chain_write_with_callbacks_and_tempfile()</li>
716 <li>FLAC__metadata_chain_check_if_tempfile_needed()</li>
717 </ul>
718 </li>
719 <li><b>Added</b> decoder functions for skipping single frames, also useful for quickly finding frame boundaries:
720 <ul>
721 <li>FLAC__stream_decoder_skip_single_frame()</li>
722 <li>FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_skip_single_frame()</li>
723 <li>FLAC__file_decoder_skip_single_frame()</li>
724 </ul>
725 </li>
726 <li><b>Added</b> new required tell callback on seekable stream encoder:
727 <ul>
728 <li>FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoderTellStatus and FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoderTellStatusString[]</li>
729 <li>FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoderTellCallback</li>
730 <li>FLAC__seekable_stream_encoder_set_tell_callback()</li>
731 </ul>
732 </li>
733 <li><b>Changed</b> FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoderState by adding FLAC__SEEKABLE_STREAM_ENCODER_TELL_ERROR</li>
734 <li><b>Changed</b> Tell callback is now required to initialize seekable stream encoder</li>
735 <li><b>Deleted</b> erroneous and unimplemented FLAC__file_decoder_process_remaining_frames()</li>
736 </ul>
737 </li>
738 <li>
739 libFLAC++:
740 <ul>
741 <li><b>Added</b> FLAC::Metadata::get_tags()</li>
742 <li><b>Added</b> decoder functions for skipping single frames, also useful for quickly finding frame boundaries:
743 <ul>
744 <li>FLAC::Decoder::Stream::skip_single_frame()</li>
745 <li>FLAC::Decoder::SeekableStream::skip_single_frame()</li>
746 <li>FLAC::Decoder::File::skip_single_frame()</li>
747 </ul>
748 </li>
749 <li><b>Added</b> encoder functions for setting metadata:
750 <ul>
751 <li>FLAC::Encoder::Stream::set_metadata(FLAC::Metadata::Prototype **metadata, unsigned num_blocks)</li>
752 <li>FLAC::Encoder::SeekableStream::set_metadata(FLAC::Metadata::Prototype **metadata, unsigned num_blocks)</li>
753 <li>FLAC::Encoder::File::set_metadata(FLAC::Metadata::Prototype **metadata, unsigned num_blocks)</li>
754 </ul>
755 </li>
756 <li><b>Added</b> new required tell callback on seekable stream encoder:
757 <ul>
758 <li>pure virtual FLAC::Encoder::SeekableStream::tell_callback()</li>
759 </ul>
760 </li>
761 <li><b>Changed</b> Tell callback is now required to initialize seekable stream encoder</li>
762 <li><b>Deleted</b> the following methods:
763 <ul>
764 <li>FLAC::Decoder::Stream::State::resolved_as_cstring()</li>
765 <li>FLAC::Encoder::Stream::State::resolved_as_cstring()</li>
766 </ul>
767 </li>
768 </ul>
769 </li>
770 <li>
771 libOggFLAC:
772 <ul>
773 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC__SeekableStreamDecoder interface</li>
774 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC__FileDecoder interface</li>
775 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC__SeekableStreamEncoder interface</li>
776 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC__FileEncoder interface</li>
777 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC__stream_decoder_get_resolved_state_string()</li>
778 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC__stream_encoder_get_resolved_state_string()</li>
779 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC__stream_encoder_set_metadata_callback()</li>
780 <li><b>Changed</b> OggFLAC__StreamDecoderState by adding OggFLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM</li>
781 </ul>
782 </li>
783 <li>
784 libOggFLAC++:
785 <ul>
786 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC::Decoder::SeekableStream interface</li>
787 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC::Decoder::File interface</li>
788 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC::Encoder::SeekableStream interface</li>
789 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC::Encoder::File interface</li>
790 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC::Decoder::Stream::get_resolved_state_string()</li>
791 <li><b>Added</b> OggFLAC::Encoder::Stream::get_resolved_state_string()</li>
792 <li><b>Added</b> pure virtual OggFLAC::Encoder::Stream::metadata_callback()</li>
793 </ul>
794 </li>
795 </ul>
796 </li>
797 </ul>
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