Chip 2001 May/Chip_2001-05_cd1.bin/sharewar/cdexcdex/CHANGES.TXT

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// Version 1.30 beta 8
Initial support for WMA decoding
First character of file Title field was garbled when Split track to Track Artist was enabled
Run Read CD function in seperate thread (should speed up CD reading process)
Small bug fixes in remote CDDB option
Initial support for CDDB batch option
384 kbits option was missing from MP2 encoder setting

// Version 1.30 beta 6
Fixed 1 bit rounding errors in MpgLib
Fixed bug, when root directory is selected in File open dialog box
Added artist/title/album info to Vorbis files
Added ABR and MaxBitrate lame option
Created installer script
Several MP2 encoder improvements (Added experimental VBR, can select to
write ancillary data, disable padding option, support for MPEG2)
Abort button added to CDex Autodetect
Select track by default is now configurable option
Fixed player problems on Windows NT systems
Added new buttons, thanks to the artist formally known as CHAR$(256)
Update to latest Lame version
Keyboard control in OpenFile dialog is now working


// Version 1.30 beta 5
Entries in the M3U files are now terminated with a newline character
CDDB items are now greyed out properly
Total number of tracks was not calculated properly
Fixed some problems regarding multi-session CDs and the generation of the CDDB-ID number
With some CD Rom drives the duration of the last track was not calculated properly
Fixed problem in submit-CDDB, track info was not updated proper
Add Ogg encoder option to select encoding mode + included beta 2 version of Ogg Encoder
Only disable the track window (instead of delete contents) when CD is ejected

// Version 1.30 beta 4
Fixed int partial track extract routine (track names were not filled out)
CDex Logo in the about box shoul be displayed correctly under all resolution settings
All files will be selected when CD is inserted
Added feature, so CD is ejected after ripping has been completed
Better handling of Multisession CDs
Created a new routine to calculate the CD Volume ID, so hopefully the CDPlayer.ini files
are now written correctly on all systems

// Version 1.30 beta 3
Better stream error recovery in MP3 decoder
Lower/Higher normalization factor can be specified seprately
Normalization factor will now be logged in the CDRipInfoDB
Normalization Spin buttons are now spinning the correct way
Incorrect TrackName was inserted into the ID3 Tag
Illegal characters replacement can now be set to empty without cutting of the string
Added vorbis decoding engine, it is now possible to convert and play ogg files
Track can be split up into Artist and Track, indicated by separation character
Leading and trailing space in the directory names could cause problems, therefore they will now be removed

// Version 1.30 beta 2
Added support for Gogo DLL encoder
Added support for Vorbis encoder
Introduced new file selection dialog box, now you should be able to select many files at once
Fixes problesm with play list generation
Many other small fixes
Added functionality to specify how with which character the illegal characters have to be replaced with

// Version 1.30 beta 1
Avoid double dot when converting MP3 file back to WAV files
Fixed initialization problem in MPGLib which could produce artifacts
File name Buffer size is now adjustable through FNBufferSize ini parameter (still does not work)
Fixed problem in ripping library that the file size was depending on Read Overlap parameter
Added logo to About box
Added initial support for CD-Text
Added initial support for CDDB submission
Added audible beep when ripping/converting is completed
ASPI retries was not persistant, is fixed now
ID3 V1.1 support
Comment field of ID3 tag can be filled out in config dialog box
Upgraded to latest lame encoder


// Version 1.30 beta 0
Switched to new MP3 decoder (MPG123 based)
Fixed CDDB proxy problem
Increased CDDB receive buffer to 32K
New lame encoder 3.80
Made changes to support latest FAAC encoder DLL
Added a simple WAV recorder (work in progress)
Fixed crash problem when there is not CD-ROM present during startup
Several small UI touch ups
Now you can dynamically create the playlist file name

// Version 1.20 release
Fixed WAV->MPEG bug (option did not work)
Updated manual
There were a few problems with the HIGH_QUALITY encoder setting.
Upgraded really to Lame 3.58 (was 3.57 in beta 9)



// Version 1.20 beta 9
Hopefully fixed problem with codec enumeration
Time out on CDDB Query sites added
Better handling of CDDB Query Sites
Automatic match of Logical drive
Added support for FAAC.dll (see http://www.slimline.net/aac/ how to get encoder)
Added support for on the fly encoding for external encoders
Switched to LibSnd (see http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/) for WAV generation,
many different WAV types are now supported (u-Law, a-Law, IMA and MS ADPCM)
Removed BladeDll from package
Removed Manual.doc file from package
Moved to GNU license (source available at www.sourceforge.net)





// Version 1.20 beta 7
Just a quick fix to avoid CDex to crash upon startup when not using the Adaptect ASPI
drivers


// Version 1.20 beta 6
Upgraded to LAME encoder version 3.30
Added percent complete to title bar.
Enhanced the extracting status information.
Fixed some problem in the low-level ripping routines (i.e. crashes with some tracks)
Added logic to switch to lower CD Speed when CD reading problem occur
Link against the latest Windows WMA library
Fixed bug where CD information was not saved when CD was ejected
Added option to use short/long CDDB directory names
Added special entry for Xing external encoder
Added encoder entry for PsyTel AAC encoder



// Version 1.20 beta 5
Upgraded to LAME encoder version 3.14
Normalization of files should now only occur within the specified range
Bug fix when extracting On the fly (it stopped after one track)
Fixed time estimate when ripping/normalizing very large files
Removed some spell check errors in the encoder dialog box
Fixed bug in lame encoder, which causes CDex to crash for certain files
when using the the joint stereo option

// Version 1.20 beta 4
Fixed time estimate when playing/decoding non VBR MP3 files.
Added new LAME encoder, now VBR crashes should not occur
Fixed the MP3 flag settings (private, original, copyright) are now
properly inserted
MP3 CRC will now be generated correctly


// Version 1.20 beta 3
Fixed bug when writing to M3U when file is opened
Added Variable Bit Rate encoding to CDex
Updated documentation (added manual.doc file, and updated help file)

// Version 1.20 beta 2
Fixed bug so CD-ROM settings are no stored properly for drive type that contain spaces
Included latest Lame Encoder (speed & quality improvements)
Added additional settings for Lame Encoder
Setting proper logical drive in CD-ROM configuration dialog
Save the remote CDDB sites properly
Fixed bugs in normalization code (Thanks to Frank!)
Decreased normalization buffer in order to avoid stack overflow problems
Linked to the lates MS-Audio SDK


// Version 1.20 beta 1
Save Correct TAG (Catagory Field) when performing Partial Track copy
Added Simple MP3 Player
Switches to Lame Encoder 3.0.2 (slower but improved quality)
Added Joint stereo and Fake Stereo option in Internal Encoder options
Fixed problems when converting MP3->RIFF WAV (was not doing anything)
Made changes to Codec enumeration, hopefully this solves the weird crashes
Store the CDDB query sites result correctly

// Version 1.20 beta 0
Added WMA encoder
Better handling of ASPI errors
Fixes problems with pause button
Avoid system crash when no CD-ROM drive is located