release 1.04
Added --delay option. Take delay amount in integer milliseconds. When positive, specified amount of silence is prepended. When negative, specified length is truncated from the beginning.
--normalize (-N) now works as general normalization function independent from --rate. This forces two pass, and creates HUGE temporary file for large input. This is just a simple peak normalization, and usually not recommended for music (EBU R128 or replaygain is much better).
Switched to use taglib for parsing APEv2 tag in tak file.
release 1.03
Fixed --format. Printed bitrate range was incorrect since 1.00.
Fixed wave muxer (for refalac -D) to properly update riff/data chunk size when finishing write, in case of length is not predictable beforehand. Also fixed to pad data chunk when it's size is not even.
Updated to automatically work in ignorelength mode when wave input data chunk size is equal to zero. At least ffmpeg seems to set zero as data chunk size, when sending to pipe and length is not predictable.
release 1.02
posted Nov 11, 2011 10:31 PM by nu 774 [ updated Nov 11, 2011 10:42 PM ]
Add CoreAudio AudioFile API importer, as a replacement of QuickTime importer. Now you can directly read AIFF and Sun/AU files without libsndfile-1.dll. As a bonus, AIFF CHAN chunk (undocumented feature used by Apple, to specify channel layout) is properly handled.
refalac -D now accepts input formats other than ALAC.
refalac -D is decoding mode, but actually, you can think of this as wave encoding mode (Though I don't know it has any use).
Better handling of UTF-8 encoded text file, which consists of latin characters only. It seems mlang tends to pick latin-1 code page first for this kind of text file.
Fixed to remove BOM from mlang decoded result. This is basically regression introduced when mlang text encoding detector was applied. mlang doesn't remove BOM from the beginning.
Add --text-codepage option. When automatic character encoding detection by mlang fails and you get something wrong in the resulting tags, you can use this to give hint to it. Code page is a number used in MS Windows to specify character encoding. 1252 is for Latin-1, 65001 for UTF-8.
By the way, from 1.00, qaac doesn't support mingw compilation (probably nobody cares, I think). qaac 1.00 uses implicit lazy loading (delay-load) feature of recent MSVC, for CoreAudio DLLs.
release 1.01 + 0.99
Fixed a bug: When you encode from wave file, reported length is way longer than the actual length, and looks as if encoding has finished in the middle (Actually, encoding finishes at correct length, and the result file is correctly encoded).
1.01 is the newest CoreAudio version, and 0.99 is back-ported QuickTime version.
release 1.00
This is a very experimental release.
In this version, qaac directly accesses CoreAudioToolbox, and doesn't depend on QuickTime anymore. However, qaac still requires "Apple Application Support" libraries (This is the same as iTunes 10.5).
You need the most recent Apple Application Support, which is shipped with QuickTime 7.7.1, or iTunes 10.5. AAC-HE encoder is not available with older versions.
Since QuickTime importer is not usable, you need libsndfile-1.dll for directly reading AIFF files or something (This restriction might be removed in future). Also, if you want --artwork-size, you need Windows Imaging Component.
--remix was removed, since matrix mixer was a builtin feature of SCAudio, and not CoreAudio.
Older QuickTime version is in "qt" branch at github repository.
