Rob, any news on an ETA for the next release ??
I had been holding back the release of 0.12.0 until more things could be included, but it's probably just as well to release it now.
Please note, I consider this an ALPHA release because there have been many sweeping changes, and I may surely have broken something along the way. Also, not all of the intended functionality (fade-out, gap handling) is complete.
You will note that I have not made any changes to the decoding library that should measurably affect performance. As I mentioned before, I am saving Andre's most recent patch for another release. The good news is that Andre's patch can still be safely applied to this release.
(Andre, maybe it would be worth posting the patch on SourceForge for the time being?)
To summarize the changes...
Throughout: - use of automake - use of libtool * a shared libmad can now be built with --enable-shared
libmad: - extended the timer API, making it very useful - the async API is almost finished * arbitrary messages can now be sent to the subsidiary process - extended the decoder API to enable fast header decoding and an opportunity to preempt decoding the rest of the frame (used for seeking) - numerous other API changes and a few bug fixes
madplay: - support for long-style options - support for internationalization via GNU gettext * French translation contributed by Gabriel Bouvigne * German, Norwegian, and Croatian translations in progress - support for start/stop playing in the middle of a file - support for shuffle/repeat - modularized filter framework * fade-in filter completed * fade-out, inter-song gap, and cross-fade handling in progress - new man page
For more details, see the CHANGES file in the distribution.
There is also the beginnings of a `mad123' program included, but it is currently useless and needs a lot of work. Is anyone interested in working on this?
The release is here:
ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/mpeg/
and will be mirrored on SourceForge shortly.
In other news, I have decided to write a MAD plug-in for Winamp. It seems a number of people want both a quality decoder and 24-bit output. :-) I hope to have a pre-release version ready in a few days.
Cheers, -rob