Subject: Re: [ecasound] ecasound 2.3.0 mp3 header problem
From: Julian Dobson (juliand_AT_braverock.com)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 20:28:57 EEST
I've been recently having difficulty with 2.2.1, so took the opportunity
to upgrade to 2.3.0. Unfortunately, this release also didn't solve my
problem.
On investigation, it turned out that while the code had been updated to
search the whole file for a header, the code checked for a second header
incorrectly. Specifically, the first header is found inside a loop while
the second header is found outside the loop. In my particular situation,
the id3v2 tags appear to fake a header, so the second check fails.
The solution was to move the second check inside the loop, so the loop
only exits after two consecutive good frame headers.
If anyone would like to look over the code, please let me know and I can
post it to the list.
Julian
Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> Lots of important bugfixes plus the new JACK transport stuff,
> so it's time to increment the minor version.
>
> 1. A short summary of changes
>
> A set of severe bugs in audio mixing code have been fixed.
> Pyecasound build process has been improved. Reporting chainsetup
> parsing errors has been improved significantly. Support for
> the JACK 0.80 transport interface has been added. Support for
> reading and writing aiff, snd and au files has been fixed.
> Changes have been made to ensure correct operation with
> the NPTL package recently added to Linux kernel and glibc.
> A serious bug in metronome timing was fixed. Minor bugs
> in dynamic sample rate changes, MIDI-server initialization
> and the ewf file format have been fixed.
>
> ---
> 2. What is Ecasound?
>
> Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio
> processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback,
> recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect
> processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports
> a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms.
> Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their
> parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators
> and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included
> in the package.
>
> Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface
> (ECI) is licensed under the LGPL.
>
> ---
> 3. Changes since last release
>
> * Support for JACK 0.80 transport interface. The recently
> released JACK 0.80.0 marks another milestone for Linux audio
> development. The new transport interface allows concurrent use
> of multiple independent audio applications with full
> sample-accurate transport synchronization. This release of
> Ecasound provides full support for the new transport API.
>
> See the following links to ecasound-list postings that
> give examples of how to use Ecasound with the new transport API:
> http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2003/08/0005.html
> http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2003/08/0070.html
>
> * Metronome timing bug. There was a subtle bug in the
> pulse gate operator that is used to generate the
> metronome signal. This bug caused a small (<0.5%) timing
> error in metronome speed. The bug has been fixed, but the
> change in speed might cause problems for working with
> sessions recorded with previous versions of Ecasound.
> Thanks to Carsten Bauer for finding the bug.
>
> Full list of changes is available at
> <http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/history.html>.
>
> ---
> 4. Interface and configuration file changes
>
> Libecasound interface version number was incremented to 11.
> This release is backwards compatible with interface
> versions 9 and 10. See 'ecasound/libecasound/ChangeLog'
> for a detailed list of changes.
>
> Libkvutils interface version number was incremented to 6.
> This release is backwards compatible with versions 5 and 4.
> See 'ecasound/kvutils/ChangeLog' for a detailed list of changes.
>
> Note! Using libecasound and libkvutils outside Ecasound has
> been discouraged since the release of 2.2.0 in Jan 2003. The
> interface changes introduced in this 2.3.0 release should
> only affect a small group of distributors and developers.
> Apps such as Ecamegapedal need to be recompiled only if
> you want to take advantage of the new features introduced
> in the latest Ecasound release.
>
> ---
> 5. Contributors
>
> Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes
>
> Kai Vehmanen (various)
>
> Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed)
>
> Jeremy Hall (3) -- non-default chainsetup srates, mixdown
> signal leak bug, pyecasound install
> Junichi Uekawa (3) -- non-default chainsetup srates,
> pyecasound install, gcc-3.3 verification
> Janne Halttunen (2) -- locale-settings broke map-* commands,
> MIDI-server startup bug
> Vegard Lima (2) -- feedback bug, ewf srate bug
> Carsten Bauer (1) -- timing bug in metronome and pulse gate
> Ismail Donmez (1) -- build errors with sys-readline option
> Lars Henrik Mai (1) -- aiff/au/snd bug
> Stephan Niemz (1) -- non-default chainsetup srates
> Al Oemens (1) -- reporting chainsetup parsing errors
> Oliver Thuns (1) -- -ei big shift-x values
> Tommi Uimonen (1) -- problems with ecasignalview channel meter
> layout
>
> ---
> 6. Links and files
>
> Web sites:
> http://www.eca.cx
> http://www.eca.cx/ecasound
>
> Source packages:
> http://ecasound.seul.org/download
> http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.3.0.tar.gz
>
> Distributions with maintained Ecasound support:
> Agnula - http://www.agnula.org
> Debian - http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/ecasound2.2.html
> DeMuDi - http://www.demudi.org
> FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html
> Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org
> PLD Linux - http://www.pld.org.pl
> PlanetCCRMA - http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software
> SuSE Linux - http://www.suse.de/en
>
> Contrib Packages for Distributions:
> Mandrake - http://rpm.nyvalls.se/
> Slackware - http://www.audioslack.com
> Various distros - http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/info/id/2146
>
> Note! Distributors do not necessarily provide packages for
> the very latest Ecasound version.
>
> --
> http://www.eca.cx
> Audio software for Linux!
>
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