annotate CHANGELOG @ 49:6c87f6443fe6

* Update copyright date and CHANGELOG
author Chris Cannam
date Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:45:23 +0000
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Chris@49 1
Chris@49 2 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.6 since the previous release 0.5:
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Chris@49 4 Build changes:
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Chris@49 6 - Switch to modular SV-libraries build using svcore library
Chris@49 7 - Add autoconf configure script
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Chris@49 9 Front-end changes:
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Chris@49 11 - Pick up default sample rate and channel count from the first
Chris@49 12 audio file, where not specified in the transform, instead of using
Chris@49 13 hard coded defaults
Chris@49 14 - Fix the --csv-one-file option which did not work in 0.5
Chris@49 15 - Fix --force option when using playlists
Chris@49 16 - Add -v option to print version number and exit
Chris@36 17
Chris@36 18 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.5 since the previous release 0.4:
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Chris@36 20 Build changes:
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Chris@36 22 - Remove unused audioio library and avoid its dependencies
Chris@36 23
Chris@36 24 Front-end changes:
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Chris@36 26 - Avoid leaking file descriptors on exceptions
Chris@36 27 - Fix embarrassing bug that caused failure to mix down to mono
Chris@36 28 properly for single-channel plugins with multi-channel input files
Chris@36 29 - Fail sooner if the output file is not writable (i.e. don't wait
Chris@36 30 until the first data is available for writing)
Chris@23 31
Chris@27 32 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.4 since the previous release 0.3:
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Chris@27 34 Build changes:
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Chris@27 36 - Sonic Annotator now requires the Vamp plugin SDK v2.1 or newer.
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Chris@27 38 Front-end changes:
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Chris@28 40 - Frequency-domain plugins now use the PluginInputDomainAdapter's new
Chris@28 41 ShiftData processing method, ensuring that the first block received
Chris@28 42 by the plugin is the one centred on 0 rather than starting at 0.
Chris@28 43 Unfortunately, the old behaviour omitted a timing compensation step,
Chris@28 44 and this fix actually changes the results from some plugin processes:
Chris@28 45 the previous behaviour was not always in line with the Vamp plugin
Chris@28 46 specification.
Chris@28 47
Chris@27 48 - More useful diagnostics are now available when a plugin fails to
Chris@28 49 load or run.
Chris@27 50
Chris@27 51 CSV back-end (feature writer) changes:
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Chris@27 53 - The CSV writer now closes its output files properly when it
Chris@27 54 finishes writing to each one, rather than leaving them all open
Chris@27 55 until the end and risk running out of file descriptors. This was
Chris@27 56 already the behaviour of the RDF writer, the CSV one has just been
Chris@27 57 updated to match it.
Chris@27 58 - The behaviour of the CSV writer has also been changed to match
Chris@27 59 that of the RDF writer in handling file write failures (it now
Chris@27 60 continues processing only if --force is given).
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Chris@27 62
Chris@27 63 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.3 since the previous release 0.2:
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Chris@23 65 Front-end changes:
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Chris@23 67 - A new --force front-end option (distinct from the --csv-force and
Chris@23 68 --rdf-force back-end options) has been added, which makes Sonic
Chris@23 69 Annotator continue to process subsequent audio files instead of
Chris@23 70 exiting after an error, if multiple audio files have been specified.
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Chris@23 72 RDF back-end (feature writer) changes:
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Chris@23 74 - The RDF writer now conforms more correctly with the Music Ontology
Chris@23 75 in the way it relates signal, track, and track metadata. Signals
Chris@23 76 that have available metadata now gain a Track resource to associate
Chris@23 77 that metadata with, instead of hanging it directly from the Signal
Chris@23 78 resource; also the audio file now encodes the signal rather than the
Chris@23 79 signal being available as the audio file (matching the domain
Chris@23 80 specification of the Music Ontology). Note that this new resource
Chris@23 81 structure will not be properly read by versions of Sonic Visualiser
Chris@23 82 prior to 1.6 (should importing the data into Sonic Visualiser be of
Chris@23 83 interest to you).
Chris@23 84
Chris@23 85 - The --rdf-signal-uri option has been removed and replaced with the
Chris@23 86 more meaningful set of options --rdf-audiofile-uri, --rdf-track-uri,
Chris@23 87 and --rdf-maker-uri.
Chris@23 88
Chris@23 89 - A new --rdf-network option is available, to cause Sonic Annotator
Chris@23 90 to try to retrieve RDF descriptions for plugins from the network
Chris@23 91 where those descriptions are not available locally. Use of this
Chris@23 92 option is recommended, but it is not the default because of the
Chris@23 93 possible performance implication (even though the results are mostly
Chris@23 94 cached, there may be some network access involved).
Chris@23 95
Chris@23 96 - The RDF writer now writes the computed_by property for signal
Chris@23 97 features.
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Chris@23 99 - Plugin and output URIs in the resulting RDF are now percent-encoded.
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