| Chris@71 | 1 | 
| Chris@73 | 2 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.8 since the previous release 0.7: | 
| Chris@71 | 3 | 
| Chris@71 | 4  - Fix incorrect samplerate in reading m4a files on OS/X | 
| Chris@73 | 5  - Fix incorrect handling of FixedSampleRate outputs (Vamp SDK fix) | 
| Chris@65 | 6 | 
| Chris@65 | 7 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.7 since the previous release 0.6: | 
| Chris@65 | 8 | 
| Chris@65 | 9 Build changes: | 
| Chris@65 | 10 | 
| Chris@65 | 11  - Support 64-bit builds on OS/X (using CoreAudio instead of | 
| Chris@65 | 12    obsolete QuickTime audio file reader) | 
| Chris@65 | 13 | 
| Chris@65 | 14  - Simplify RDF reading and fix some bugs. Now requires Dataquay | 
| Chris@65 | 15    (http://breakfastquay.com/dataquay/) rather than using Redland | 
| Chris@65 | 16    directly. Release builds use Sord/Serd rather than Redland | 
| Chris@49 | 17 | 
| Chris@49 | 18 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.6 since the previous release 0.5: | 
| Chris@49 | 19 | 
| Chris@49 | 20 Build changes: | 
| Chris@49 | 21 | 
| Chris@49 | 22  - Switch to modular SV-libraries build using svcore library | 
| Chris@53 | 23  - We now require Vamp plugin SDK v2.3 | 
| Chris@49 | 24  - Add autoconf configure script | 
| Chris@49 | 25 | 
| Chris@49 | 26 Front-end changes: | 
| Chris@49 | 27 | 
| Chris@49 | 28  - Pick up default sample rate and channel count from the first | 
| Chris@49 | 29  audio file, where not specified in the transform, instead of using | 
| Chris@49 | 30  hard coded defaults | 
| Chris@53 | 31  - Make it possible to specify the window shape in transform | 
| Chris@49 | 32  - Fix the --csv-one-file option which did not work in 0.5 | 
| Chris@49 | 33  - Fix --force option when using playlists | 
| Chris@49 | 34  - Add -v option to print version number and exit | 
| Chris@36 | 35 | 
| Chris@36 | 36 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.5 since the previous release 0.4: | 
| Chris@36 | 37 | 
| Chris@36 | 38 Build changes: | 
| Chris@36 | 39 | 
| Chris@36 | 40  - Remove unused audioio library and avoid its dependencies | 
| Chris@36 | 41 | 
| Chris@36 | 42 Front-end changes: | 
| Chris@36 | 43 | 
| Chris@36 | 44  - Avoid leaking file descriptors on exceptions | 
| Chris@36 | 45  - Fix embarrassing bug that caused failure to mix down to mono | 
| Chris@36 | 46  properly for single-channel plugins with multi-channel input files | 
| Chris@36 | 47  - Fail sooner if the output file is not writable (i.e. don't wait | 
| Chris@36 | 48  until the first data is available for writing) | 
| Chris@23 | 49 | 
| Chris@27 | 50 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.4 since the previous release 0.3: | 
| Chris@27 | 51 | 
| Chris@27 | 52 Build changes: | 
| Chris@27 | 53 | 
| Chris@27 | 54  - Sonic Annotator now requires the Vamp plugin SDK v2.1 or newer. | 
| Chris@27 | 55 | 
| Chris@27 | 56 Front-end changes: | 
| Chris@27 | 57 | 
| Chris@28 | 58  - Frequency-domain plugins now use the PluginInputDomainAdapter's new | 
| Chris@28 | 59  ShiftData processing method, ensuring that the first block received | 
| Chris@28 | 60  by the plugin is the one centred on 0 rather than starting at 0. | 
| Chris@28 | 61  Unfortunately, the old behaviour omitted a timing compensation step, | 
| Chris@28 | 62  and this fix actually changes the results from some plugin processes: | 
| Chris@28 | 63  the previous behaviour was not always in line with the Vamp plugin | 
| Chris@28 | 64  specification. | 
| Chris@28 | 65 | 
| Chris@27 | 66  - More useful diagnostics are now available when a plugin fails to | 
| Chris@28 | 67  load or run. | 
| Chris@27 | 68 | 
| Chris@27 | 69 CSV back-end (feature writer) changes: | 
| Chris@27 | 70 | 
| Chris@27 | 71  - The CSV writer now closes its output files properly when it | 
| Chris@27 | 72  finishes writing to each one, rather than leaving them all open | 
| Chris@27 | 73  until the end and risk running out of file descriptors.  This was | 
| Chris@27 | 74  already the behaviour of the RDF writer, the CSV one has just been | 
| Chris@27 | 75  updated to match it. | 
| Chris@27 | 76  - The behaviour of the CSV writer has also been changed to match | 
| Chris@27 | 77  that of the RDF writer in handling file write failures (it now | 
| Chris@27 | 78  continues processing only if --force is given). | 
| Chris@27 | 79 | 
| Chris@27 | 80 | 
| Chris@27 | 81 Changes in Sonic Annotator 0.3 since the previous release 0.2: | 
| Chris@23 | 82 | 
| Chris@23 | 83 Front-end changes: | 
| Chris@23 | 84 | 
| Chris@23 | 85  - A new --force front-end option (distinct from the --csv-force and | 
| Chris@23 | 86  --rdf-force back-end options) has been added, which makes Sonic | 
| Chris@23 | 87  Annotator continue to process subsequent audio files instead of | 
| Chris@23 | 88  exiting after an error, if multiple audio files have been specified. | 
| Chris@23 | 89 | 
| Chris@23 | 90 RDF back-end (feature writer) changes: | 
| Chris@23 | 91 | 
| Chris@23 | 92  - The RDF writer now conforms more correctly with the Music Ontology | 
| Chris@23 | 93  in the way it relates signal, track, and track metadata.  Signals | 
| Chris@23 | 94  that have available metadata now gain a Track resource to associate | 
| Chris@23 | 95  that metadata with, instead of hanging it directly from the Signal | 
| Chris@23 | 96  resource; also the audio file now encodes the signal rather than the | 
| Chris@23 | 97  signal being available as the audio file (matching the domain | 
| Chris@23 | 98  specification of the Music Ontology).  Note that this new resource | 
| Chris@23 | 99  structure will not be properly read by versions of Sonic Visualiser | 
| Chris@23 | 100  prior to 1.6 (should importing the data into Sonic Visualiser be of | 
| Chris@23 | 101  interest to you). | 
| Chris@23 | 102 | 
| Chris@23 | 103  - The --rdf-signal-uri option has been removed and replaced with the | 
| Chris@23 | 104  more meaningful set of options --rdf-audiofile-uri, --rdf-track-uri, | 
| Chris@23 | 105  and --rdf-maker-uri. | 
| Chris@23 | 106 | 
| Chris@23 | 107  - A new --rdf-network option is available, to cause Sonic Annotator | 
| Chris@23 | 108  to try to retrieve RDF descriptions for plugins from the network | 
| Chris@23 | 109  where those descriptions are not available locally.  Use of this | 
| Chris@23 | 110  option is recommended, but it is not the default because of the | 
| Chris@23 | 111  possible performance implication (even though the results are mostly | 
| Chris@23 | 112  cached, there may be some network access involved). | 
| Chris@23 | 113 | 
| Chris@23 | 114  - The RDF writer now writes the computed_by property for signal | 
| Chris@23 | 115  features. | 
| Chris@23 | 116 | 
| Chris@23 | 117  - Plugin and output URIs in the resulting RDF are now percent-encoded. | 
| Chris@23 | 118 |