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82 This is an informal changelog, a summary of changes in each release. Particulary important for developers is the precise description of changes to the library interfaces.
86 <A NAME="flac_1_1_1"><B>FLAC 1.1.1</B></A>
93 <LI>New PPC optimizations almost double the decoding speed on OS X</LI>
94 <LI>Ogg FLAC seeking now works</LI>
100 <LI>Make invalid the metadata block type 127 so that audio frames can always be distinguished from metadata by seeing 0xff as the first byte.</LI>
106 <LI>Print an error when output file already exists instead of automatically overwriting.</LI>
107 <LI>New option <A HREF="documentation.html#flac_options_force"><TT>-f</TT> (<TT>--force</TT>)</A> to force overwriting if the output file already exists.</LI>
108 <LI>New option <A HREF="documentation.html#flac_options_cue"><TT>--cue</TT></A> to select a specific section to decode using cuesheet track/index points.</LI>
109 <LI>New option <A HREF="documentation.html#flac_options_totally_silent"><TT>--totally-silent</TT></A> to suppress all output.</LI>
110 <LI>New (but undocumented) option <TT>--apply-replaygain-which-is-not-lossless</TT> which applies ReplayGain to the decoded output. See <A HREF="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17293&st=11">this thread</A> for usage and caveats.</LI>
111 <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>
112 <LI>When encoding multiple Ogg FLAC streams, <TT>--serial-number</TT> 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>
113 <LI>Decoder no longer exits with an error when writing to stdout and the pipe is broken.</LI>
114 <LI>Better explanation of common error messages.</LI>
115 <LI>Default extension when writing AIFF files is .aif (before, it was .aiff).</LI>
116 <LI>Write more common representation of SANE numbers in AIFF files.</LI>
117 <LI>Bug fix: calculating ReplayGain on 48kHz streams.</LI>
118 <LI>Bug fix: check for supported block alignments in WAVE files.</LI>
119 <LI>Bug fix: <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=679166&group_id=13478&atid=113478">#679166</A>: flac doesn't respect RIFF subchunk padding byte.</LI>
120 <LI>Bug fix: <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=828391&group_id=13478&atid=113478">#828391</A>: --add-replay-gain segfaults.</LI>
121 <LI>Bug fix: <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=851155&group_id=13478&atid=113478">#851155</A>: Can't seek to position in flac file.</LI>
122 <LI>Bug fix: <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=851756&group_id=13478&atid=113478">#851756</A>: flac --skip --until reads entire file.</LI>
123 <LI>Bug fix: <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=877122&group_id=13478&atid=113478">#877122</A>: problem parsing cuesheet with CATALOG entry.</LI>
124 <LI>Bug fix: <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=896057&group_id=13478&atid=113478">#896057</A>: parsing ISRC number from cuesheet.</LI>
130 <LI>Better explanation of common error messages.</LI>
131 <LI>Bug fix: calculating ReplayGain on 48kHz streams.</LI>
132 <LI>Bug fix: incorrect numbers when printing seek points.</LI>
138 <LI>Speed optimization in ReplayGain synthesis.</LI>
139 <LI>Speed optimization in XMMS playback.</LI>
140 <LI>Support for big-endian architectures in XMMS plugin.</LI>
141 <LI>Bug fix: make hard limiter default to off in XMMS plugin.</LI>
142 <LI>Bug fix: stream length calculation bug in XMMS plugin, debian bug #200435; <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2733072&forum_id=6312">see also</A>.</LI>
143 <LI>Bug fix: small memory leak in XMMS plugin.</LI>
149 <LI><TT>ordinals.h</TT> is now static, not a build-generated file anymore.</LI>
155 <LI>libFLAC: PPC+Altivec optimizations of some decoder routines.</LI>
156 <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>
157 <LI>libFLAC: Bug fix: fixed seek routine where infinite loop could happen when seeking past end of stream.</LI>
158 <LI>libFLAC, libFLAC++: added methods to skip single frames, useful for quickly finding frame boundaries (see interface changes below).</LI>
159 <LI>libOggFLAC, libOggFLAC++: New seekable-stream and file encoder and decoder APIs to match native FLAC APIs (see interface changes below).</LI>
168 <LI><B>Added</B> callback-based versions of metadata editing functions:
170 <LI>FLAC__metadata_chain_read_with_callbacks()</LI>
171 <LI>FLAC__metadata_chain_write_with_callbacks()</LI>
172 <LI>FLAC__metadata_chain_write_with_callbacks_and_tempfile()</LI>
173 <LI>FLAC__metadata_chain_check_if_tempfile_needed()</LI>
176 <LI><B>Added</B> decoder functions for skipping single frames, also useful for quickly finding frame boundaries:
178 <LI>FLAC__stream_decoder_skip_single_frame()</LI>
179 <LI>FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_skip_single_frame()</LI>
180 <LI>FLAC__file_decoder_skip_single_frame()</LI>
183 <LI><B>Added</B> new required tell callback on seekable stream encoder:
185 <LI>FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoderTellStatus and FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoderTellStatusString[]</LI>
186 <LI>FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoderTellCallback</LI>
187 <LI>FLAC__seekable_stream_encoder_set_tell_callback()</LI>
190 <LI><B>Changed</B> FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoderState by adding FLAC__SEEKABLE_STREAM_ENCODER_TELL_ERROR</LI>
191 <LI><B>Changed</B> Tell callback is now required to initialize seekable stream encoder</LI>
192 <LI><B>Deleted</B> erroneous and unimplemented FLAC__file_decoder_process_remaining_frames()</LI>
198 <LI><B>Added</B> decoder functions for skipping single frames, also useful for quickly finding frame boundaries:
200 <LI>FLAC::Decoder::Stream::skip_single_frame()</LI>
201 <LI>FLAC::Decoder::SeekableStream::skip_single_frame()</LI>
202 <LI>FLAC::Decoder::File::skip_single_frame()</LI>
205 <LI><B>Added</B> encoder functions for setting metadata:
207 <LI>FLAC::Encoder::Stream::set_metadata(FLAC::Metadata::Prototype **metadata, unsigned num_blocks)</LI>
208 <LI>FLAC::Encoder::SeekableStream::set_metadata(FLAC::Metadata::Prototype **metadata, unsigned num_blocks)</LI>
209 <LI>FLAC::Encoder::File::set_metadata(FLAC::Metadata::Prototype **metadata, unsigned num_blocks)</LI>
212 <LI><B>Added</B> new required tell callback on seekable stream encoder:
214 <LI>pure virtual FLAC::Encoder::SeekableStream::tell_callback()</LI>
217 <LI><B>Changed</B> Tell callback is now required to initialize seekable stream encoder</LI>
218 <LI><B>Deleted</B> the following methods:
220 <LI>FLAC::Decoder::Stream::State::resolved_as_cstring()</LI>
221 <LI>FLAC::Encoder::Stream::State::resolved_as_cstring()</LI>
229 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC__SeekableStreamDecoder interface</LI>
230 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC__FileDecoder interface</LI>
231 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC__SeekableStreamEncoder interface</LI>
232 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC__FileEncoder interface</LI>
233 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC__stream_decoder_get_resolved_state_string()</LI>
234 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC__stream_encoder_get_resolved_state_string()</LI>
235 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC__stream_encoder_set_metadata_callback()</LI>
236 <LI><B>Changed</B> OggFLAC__StreamDecoderState by adding OggFLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM</LI>
242 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC::Decoder::SeekableStream interface</LI>
243 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC::Decoder::File interface</LI>
244 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC::Encoder::SeekableStream interface</LI>
245 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC::Encoder::File interface</LI>
246 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC::Decoder::Stream::get_resolved_state_string()</LI>
247 <LI><B>Added</B> OggFLAC::Encoder::Stream::get_resolved_state_string()</LI>
248 <LI><B>Added</B> pure virtual OggFLAC::Encoder::Stream::metadata_callback()</LI>
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