FREAC BY PATTERN UPDATE
I implemented some of the things announced in the previous status update during the past few weeks. Just in time for the end of the month, here's the development status update for April.
FREAC BY PATTERN SOFTWARE
Well, I decided it's more important to get the software ready for a 1.1 beta release first, so the website overhaul will be delayed a few months. I wrote about building a new website for the fre:ac project a few months ago and some of you might wonder what's the status of it. fre:ac 1.0.22 should be ready around mid June. When it's out, I will concentrate on a service release for the 1.0.x series. If everything goes as planned during the next week, the snapshot will be released on June 8th. That way they can be used on Mountain Lion and Mavericks without having to change the Gatekeeper settings. The OS X snapshots will be digitally signed starting with the next one. The new snapshot will also make use of this feature when using the original cdparanoia libary.
This will allow detection of drives with faulty cache management (which might result in bad rips) and issue a warning in that case. I'm now working on implementing cdparanoia III 10.2 cache modelling support in GNU libcdio, the CD ripping library used by fre:ac on Linux and OS X. Artists and original albums for compilations, chapter comments and even cover art.īy the way, while at it, I also implemented WMA chapter support to enable chapters in all formats that are able to store them.
You can add any information supported by ID3v2 on a per chapter basis. ID3v2 chapters allow storing much more information than just chapter titles. The designated main feature of the upcoming snapshot, chapter support for ID3v2 tags, has been implemented and tested and it's working fine already. I expect to be able to release it in July.Ī last minute status update again this month - here's what happened in fre:ac development in May. I found some problems with the compiler I planned to use for that release, so this is holding it back for a while.
If you read last month's status report, you will have noticed there's no fre:ac 1.0.22 release, yet. I'll probably be able go into detail about these in next month's update. I also worked on improving stability on Linux and FreeBSD in the past weeks and made some attempts to improve performance on OS X. Additionally, the search pattern itself can now include folders, so with a pattern like "Linkin Park*/*.flac" you could add all FLAC files belonging to Linkin Park albums. Starting with the next snapshot, you will be able to apply the search pattern to subfolders of the selected folder by checking the corresponding option. One thing I already implemented is an improved algorithm for the "Add files by pattern" functionality. libsndfile is already used to read such formats in current snapshots.
FREAC BY PATTERN WINDOWS
Plans include using the common menu bar on OS X, sorting the joblist by clicking on column headers and replacing the Windows Wave File output component with a more versatile one based on libsndfile, that will be able to output other basic formats like Apple AIFF in addition to Wave. Last month saw the release of a new snapshot and I'm now figuring out what to put into the next.
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