| Chris@49 | 1 | 
| Chris@49 | 2 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.6 since the previous release 0.5: | 
| Chris@49 | 3 | 
| Chris@49 | 4 Build changes: | 
| Chris@49 | 5 | 
| Chris@49 | 6  - Switch to modular SV-libraries build using svcore library | 
| Chris@49 | 7  - Add autoconf configure script | 
| Chris@49 | 8 | 
| Chris@49 | 9 Front-end changes: | 
| Chris@49 | 10 | 
| 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: | 
| Chris@36 | 19 | 
| Chris@36 | 20 Build changes: | 
| Chris@36 | 21 | 
| Chris@36 | 22  - Remove unused audioio library and avoid its dependencies | 
| Chris@36 | 23 | 
| Chris@36 | 24 Front-end changes: | 
| Chris@36 | 25 | 
| 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: | 
| Chris@27 | 33 | 
| Chris@27 | 34 Build changes: | 
| Chris@27 | 35 | 
| Chris@27 | 36  - Sonic Annotator now requires the Vamp plugin SDK v2.1 or newer. | 
| Chris@27 | 37 | 
| Chris@27 | 38 Front-end changes: | 
| Chris@27 | 39 | 
| 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: | 
| Chris@27 | 52 | 
| 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). | 
| Chris@27 | 61 | 
| Chris@27 | 62 | 
| Chris@27 | 63 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.3 since the previous release 0.2: | 
| Chris@23 | 64 | 
| Chris@23 | 65 Front-end changes: | 
| Chris@23 | 66 | 
| 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. | 
| Chris@23 | 71 | 
| Chris@23 | 72 RDF back-end (feature writer) changes: | 
| Chris@23 | 73 | 
| 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. | 
| Chris@23 | 98 | 
| Chris@23 | 99  - Plugin and output URIs in the resulting RDF are now percent-encoded. | 
| Chris@23 | 100 |