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- <P>FLAC goes hardware! <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/">Phatnoise</A> has become the first commercial hardware platform to support FLAC. Firmware is now available for the PhatBox player or Kenwood Music Keg to play FLAC files, and FLAC encoding and playback is supported in the Phatnoise Music Manager software; see <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=74">here</A> for more info.</P>
- <P>The FLAC 1.0.3 beta period is wrapping up; the official release will be sometime in mid-July.</P>
+ <P>FLAC 1.0.3 is out. This release includes a decoder speedup, 24-bit input support, more robust plugins, a new metadata block for Vorbis-style tags, a vastly improved metadata editor, and for developers, a new C++ object wrapper library around <B><TT>libFLAC</TT></B>, among other things. For a complete list see <A HREF="news.html#20020703">here</A>.</P>
+ <P>Also note that <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/">PhatNoise</A> now officially supports FLAC in both the PhatBox/Kenwood Music Keg firmware and the PhatNoise Music Manager software; see the announcement <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=74">here</A> for more info.</P>
<P>If you use FLAC and have suggestions or patches, please <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=13478">join the mailing list</A> or <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=13478">developers group</A>. Bugs can be filed <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=addbug&group_id=13478">here</A>.</P>
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+ <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20020703">03-Jul-2002</A> :<BR> Version 1.0.3 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20020213">13-Feb-2002</A> :<BR> FLAC goes hardware<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20011203">03-Dec-2001</A> :<BR> Version 1.0.2 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20011114">14-Nov-2001</A> :<BR> Version 1.0.1 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/flac">Freshmeat page</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.firstpr.com.au/audiocomp/lossless/">First Principles</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><B>Hardware supporting FLAC:</B><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
- <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/">Phatnoise</A> car audio system: <A HREF="http://phatbox.sixpak.org/">Phatbox + FLAC</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/">PhatNoise</A> car audio system: <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=74">Phatbox + FLAC</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><B>Software supporting FLAC:</B><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.bagu.dhs.org/flac.html">Patch</A> for <A HREF="http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/">abcde</A> (A Better CD Encoder)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://easytag.sourceforge.net/">EasyTAG</A> versatile tagger<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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+ <A NAME="20020703">03-Jul-2002:</A>
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+ <P>
+ <UL>
+ <LI>
+ <B>FLAC 1.0.3 released</B> Although by number only a 0.0.1 increment, this release is significant. Remember, micro-revisions mean the FLAC format remains both forward and backward compatible, however, the libFLAC API has changed for the better.
+ <P>
+ New features:
+ <UL>
+ <LI>24-bit input support restored in <B><TT>flac</TT></B>.</LI>
+ <LI>Decoder speedup in <B><TT>libFLAC</TT></B>, which is directly passed on to the command-line decoder and plugins.</LI>
+ <LI>New <TT>-F</TT> option to <B><TT>flac</TT></B> to continue decoding in spite of errors.</LI>
+ <LI>Correctly set granulepos in Ogg packets so seeking Ogg FLAC streams will be easier.</LI>
+ <LI>New <A HREF="format.html#metadata_block_vorbis_comment">VORBIS_COMMENT</A> metadata block for tagging with Vorbis-style comments.</LI>
+ <LI>Vastly improved <B><TT>metaflac</TT></B>, now with many editing and tagging options.</LI>
+ <LI>Partial id3v1 support in Winamp plugins.</LI>
+ <LI>Updated Winamp 3 plugin.</LI>
+ <LI>Note: new semantics for -P option in <B><TT>flac</TT></B>.</LI>
+ <LI>Note: removed -R option in <B><TT>flac</TT></B>.</LI>
+ </UL>
+ <P>
+ New library features:
+ <UL>
+ <LI>Previously mentioned decoder speedup in <B><TT>libFLAC</TT></B>.</LI>
+ <LI>New metadata interface to <B><TT>libFLAC</TT></B> for manipulating metadata in FLAC files.</LI>
+ <LI>New <B><TT><A HREF="documentation.html#libflacpp">libFLAC++</A></TT></B> API, an object wrapper around <B><TT>libFLAC</TT></B>.</LI>
+ <LI>New <A HREF="format.html#metadata_block_vorbis_comment">VORBIS_COMMENT</A> metadata block for tagging with Vorbis-style comments.</LI>
+ <LI>Customizable metadata filtering by type in decoders.</LI>
+ <LI>Stream encoder can take an arbitrary list of metadata blocks, instead of just one SEEKTABLE and/or PADDING block.</LI>
+ </UL>
+ <P>
+ Bugs fixed:
+ <UL>
+ <LI>Fixed bug with using pipes under Windows.</LI>
+ <LI>Fixed several bugs in the plugins and made them more robust in general.</LI>
+ <LI>Fixed bug in <B><TT>flac</TT></B> where decoding to WAVE of a FLAC file with 0 for total_samples in the STREAMINFO block yielded a WAVE chunk of 0 size.</LI>
+ <LI>Fixed bug in Ogg packet numbering.</LI>
+ </UL>
+ </LI>
+ </UL>
+ </P>
+
+ <P>
<A NAME="20020213">13-Feb-2002:</A>
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