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+ 10-Sep-2002:
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+ -
+ FLAC 1.0.4 released There are a lot of improvements since 1.0.3; let's get right to it:
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+ Plugins:
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+ - Support for Vorbis comments, ID3 v1 and v2 tags.
+ - Configurable title formatting and charset conversion in XMMS plugin.
+ - Support for 8- and 24-bit FLAC files. There is a compile-time option for raw 24-bit output or 24bps-to-16bps linear dithering (the default).
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+ flac:
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+ - Improved option parser (now uses getopt).
+ - AIFF input support (thanks to Brady Patterson).
+ - Small decoder speedup.
+ - --sector-align now supported for raw input files.
+ - New --serial-number option for use with --ogg.
+ - Automatically writes vendor string in Vorbis comments.
+ - Drastically reduced memory requirements.
+ - Fixed bug where extra fmt/data chunks that were supposed to be skipped were not getting skipped.
+ - Fixed bug in granulepos setting for Ogg FLAC streams.
+ - Fixed memory leak when encoding multiple files with -V.
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+ metaflac:
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+ - UTF-8 support in Vorbis comments.
+ - New --import-vc-from and --export-vc-to commands for importing/exporting Vorbis comments from/to a file. For example, the following can be used to copy tags back and forth:
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+ metaflac --export-vc-to=- --no-utf8-convert file.flac | vorbiscomment --raw -w -c file.ogg
+ vorbiscomment -l --raw file.ogg | metaflac --import-vc-from=- --no-utf8-convert file.flac
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+
+ - Fixed bug #606796 where metaflac was failing on read-only files.
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+ Libraries:
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+ - All APIs now meticulously documented via Doxygen. See here.
+ - New libOggFLAC and libOggFLAC++ libraries. These wrap around libFLAC to provide encoding and decoding of Ogg FLAC streams, providing interfaces similar to the ones of the native FLAC libraries. These are also documented via Doxygen.
+ - New FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoder and FLAC__FileEncoder in libFLAC simplify common encoding tasks.
+ - New verify mode in all encoders.
+ - FLAC__stream_encoder_finish() now resets the defaults just like the stream decoders.
+ - Drastically reduced memory requirements of encoders and decoders.
+ - Encoder now automatically writes vendor string in VORBIS_COMMENT block.
+ - MD5 speedup for 16bps mono/stereo signals on x86 (thanks to Miroslav Lichvar).
+ - Fixed bug in metadata interface where a bps in STREAMINFO > 16 was incorrectly parsed.
+ - Fixed bug where aborting stream decoder could cause infinite loop.
+ - Behavior change: simplified decoder *_process() commands.
+ - Behavior change: calling FLAC__stream_encoder_init() calls write callback once for "fLaC" signature and once for each metadata block.
+ - Behavior change: deprecated do_escape_coding and rice_parameter_search_distance in encoder.
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22-Aug-2002:
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