<TABLE WIDTH="100%" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0"><TR BGCOLOR="#000000"><TD><IMG SRC="images/1x1.gif" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD></TR></TABLE>
<TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#EEEED4">
<TR><TD><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">
- <P>FLAC is currently in the beta stage. As of version 0.5, the format has been frozen. The tools may already be archival quality but I want to do some more testing before an official release. Always use the verify option (-V) when encoding before deleting your originals. Also note the new
MD5 signature feature in the stream header and the new test mode (see the <A HREF="documentation.html">documentation</A> page).</P>
+ <P>FLAC is currently in the beta stage. As of version 0.5, the format has been frozen. The tools may already be archival quality but I want to do some more testing before an official release. Always use the verify option (-V) when encoding before deleting your originals. Also note the new
<A HREF="http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/cs/md5/md5.html">MD5 signature</A> feature in the stream header and the new test mode (see the <A HREF="documentation.html">documentation</A> page).</P>
<P>If you use FLAC and have suggestions or bugs, 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> and help us move to an official 1.0 version.</P>
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
<TABLE WIDTH="100%" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0"><TR BGCOLOR="#000000"><TD><IMG SRC="images/1x1.gif" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD></TR></TABLE>
<TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#EEEED4">
- <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010114">14-Jan-2001</A> :<BR> FLAC goes beta with version 0.5<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010115">15-Jan-2001</A> :<BR> FLAC goes beta with version 0.5<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20001223">23-Dec-2000</A> :<BR> Version 0.4 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20001210">10-Dec-2000</A> :<BR> FLAC <A HREF="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/flac/">debuts</A> on SourceForge<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
<TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#EEEED4">
<TR><TD><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">
<P>
- <A NAME="20010114">14-Jan-2001:</A>
+ <A NAME="20010115">15-Jan-2001:</A>
</P>
<P>
<UL>
<LI>
<B>FLAC 0.5 released.</B> This is the first beta version of FLAC. Being beta, there will be no changes to the format that will break older streams, unless a serious bug involving the format is found. What this means is that, barring such a bug, streams created with 0.5 will be decodable by future versions. This version also includes some new features:
<UL>
- <LI>An MD5 signature of the unencoded audio is computed during encoding, and stored in the Encoding metadata block in the stream header. When decoding, <B><TT>flac</TT></B> will now compute the MD5 signature of the decoded data and compare it against the signature in the stream header.</LI>
+ <LI>An <A HREF="http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/cs/md5/md5.html">MD5 signature</A> of the unencoded audio is computed during encoding, and stored in the Encoding metadata block in the stream header. When decoding, <B><TT>flac</TT></B> will now compute the MD5 signature of the decoded data and compare it against the signature in the stream header.</LI>
<LI>A test mode (<B><TT>-t</TT></B>) has been added to <B><TT>flac</TT></B>. It works like decode mode but doesn't write an output file.</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
projects / platform / upstream / flac.git / commitdiff