annotate CHANGELOG @ 690:01ee04f9539f

Added tag sv_v2.3-f for changeset 59c68b5ae5be
author Chris Cannam
date Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:44:06 +0000
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Chris@675 3 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.3 since the previous release 2.2:
Chris@675 4
Chris@675 5 - Add a startup welcome dialog that also explains what SV makes
Chris@675 6 network connections for and allows user to forbid them
Chris@675 7
Chris@675 8 - Add "Export Audio Data" feature
Chris@675 9
Chris@675 10 - Show piano keyboard scale in note and time-value layers as well
Chris@675 11 as spectrogram, where vertical scale is log Hz; also show
Chris@675 12 numerical scale in note and region layers when not auto-aligned
Chris@675 13
Chris@675 14 - Speed up CSV file import and avoid showing crazily wide window
Chris@675 15 for CSV file format dialog when file has lots of columns
Chris@675 16
Chris@675 17 - Fix incorrectly saved window geometry when exiting from maximised
Chris@675 18 state
Chris@675 19
Chris@675 20 - Reduce number of timer wakeups when idle
Chris@675 21
Chris@675 22 - Add American English translation and make choice of translation
Chris@675 23 into a preference (defaulting to system locale)
Chris@675 24
Chris@675 25 - Permit installation to non-default location with Windows installer
Chris@675 26 build
Chris@675 27
Chris@608 28
Chris@608 29 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.2 since the previous release 2.1:
Chris@608 30
Chris@608 31 - Build with support for hidpi ("retina") text on OS/X
Chris@675 32
Chris@608 33 - Fix very slow analysis when using Ogg or FLAC files decoded
Chris@608 34 via libsndfile
Chris@675 35
Chris@608 36 - Fix inaccurate scale auto-align between time-value layers and
Chris@608 37 others
Chris@675 38
Chris@608 39 - Fix failure to open files specified on command line (or via
Chris@608 40 Open With) on Windows
Chris@675 41
Chris@608 42 - Reset cyclical counters and switch back to navigate mode when
Chris@608 43 a new session is started
Chris@579 44
Chris@675 45
Chris@579 46 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.1 since the previous release 2.0.1:
Chris@579 47
Chris@579 48 - Fix incorrect handling of FixedSampleRate outputs (Vamp SDK fix)
Chris@675 49
Chris@579 50 - Make it easier to see results from transforms that return a single point
Chris@675 51
Chris@579 52 - Make labelling clearer on time-value layers
Chris@675 53
Chris@579 54 - Add discrete-curve mode for time-value layers (for curves with gaps)
Chris@675 55
Chris@579 56 - Update code to build against Qt5
Chris@523 57
Chris@675 58
Chris@523 59 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.0.1 since the previous release 2.0:
Chris@523 60
Chris@523 61 - Fix incorrect samplerate in reading m4a files on OS/X
Chris@512 62
Chris@675 63
Chris@512 64 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.0 since the previous release 1.9:
Chris@512 65
Chris@512 66 - Support 64-bit builds on OS/X (using CoreAudio instead of
Chris@512 67 obsolete QuickTime audio file reader)
Chris@512 68
Chris@512 69 - Simplify RDF reading and fix some bugs. Now requires Dataquay
Chris@512 70 (http://breakfastquay.com/dataquay/) rather than using Redland
Chris@512 71 directly. Release builds use Sord/Serd rather than Redland
Chris@512 72
Chris@512 73 - Add a fullscreen mode on the F11 key
Chris@471 74
Chris@675 75
Chris@471 76 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.9 since the previous release 1.8:
Chris@471 77
Chris@471 78 - Add session templates; save session as template; apply template to
Chris@471 79 session
Chris@471 80
Chris@471 81 - Tidy up the file open logic so as to remove the dialog asking how
Chris@471 82 to open a file, where possible
Chris@471 83
Chris@471 84 - Various bug fixes.
Chris@394 85
Chris@675 86
Chris@394 87 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.8 since the previous release 1.7.2:
Chris@394 88
Chris@394 89 - Sonic Visualiser now registers as a file type handler on OS/X,
Chris@394 90 providing better integration with the desktop generally (Dan Stowell)
Chris@394 91
Chris@394 92 - There is a new function to toggle all Time Rulers at once (key #)
Chris@394 93
Chris@407 94 - The CSV import dialog has been overhauled, allowing more flexible
Chris@407 95 selection of purpose for each column
Chris@407 96
Chris@394 97 - Text overlays are now easier to read on dark backgrounds
Chris@394 98
Chris@394 99 - Hidden layers are now ignored when exporting an image (Dan Stowell)
Chris@394 100
Chris@394 101 - A crash when starting a new session or exiting the application
Chris@394 102 after loading a session with saved alignment data has been fixed
Chris@394 103
Chris@394 104 - The duplication of right-button menu functions when multiple files
Chris@394 105 were loaded has been fixed
Chris@394 106
Chris@394 107 - The layer-add menu functions now have shortcuts (Dan Stowell)
Chris@394 108
Chris@394 109 - The codebase has been reorganised into libraries and a configure
Chris@394 110 step added. It should be easier to build and maintain on OS/X and
Chris@394 111 Linux than previously, although it won't make much difference on
Chris@394 112 Windows.
Chris@394 113
Chris@397 114 - A Czech translation is now included (thanks to Pavel Fric).
Chris@397 115
Chris@675 116
Chris@394 117 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.7.2 since the previous release 1.7.1:
Chris@394 118
Chris@394 119 - The time-value layer now has an origin line and an option to
Chris@394 120 show derivatives (change from one point to the next) rather than
Chris@394 121 raw values
Chris@394 122
Chris@394 123 - A static initialiser race has been fixed, possibly fixing an
Chris@394 124 occasional crash on startup in Windows
Chris@394 125
Chris@394 126 - A crash when pressing Play straight after New Session has been
Chris@394 127 fixed
Chris@394 128
Chris@675 129
Chris@394 130 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.7.1 since the previous release 1.7:
Chris@394 131
Chris@394 132 - The RDF importer does a better job of assigning labels to layers,
Chris@394 133 layers to panes, and values to labelled regions
Chris@394 134
Chris@394 135 - Interactive editing in the Text layer benefits from the same
Chris@394 136 improvements as made in 1.7 to Note and Region layers
Chris@394 137
Chris@394 138 - The layer data editor window has a text search feature
Chris@394 139
Chris@394 140 - The main window status bar now shows the last label to have passed
Chris@394 141 the playback position in the current layer, at the right end of the
Chris@394 142 status bar
Chris@394 143
Chris@394 144 - The Russian translation has been updated (thanks Alexandre)
Chris@394 145
Chris@675 146
Chris@394 147 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.7 since the previous release 1.6:
Chris@394 148
Chris@394 149 - A new "Insert Item At Selection" function on the Edit menu
Chris@394 150 can be used to create Note and Region layer items whose time
Chris@394 151 extents correspond to the current selection(s)
Chris@394 152
Chris@394 153 - Interactively editing points in the Note and Region layers
Chris@394 154 now works much more smoothly
Chris@394 155
Chris@394 156 - SV can now import MIDI files that use SMPTE timecode for event
Chris@394 157 timing (importing MIDI files using with the more common
Chris@394 158 timebase-based timing was already supported)
Chris@394 159
Chris@394 160 - Time values throughout the display may optionally be shown in
Chris@394 161 seconds and frames at various frame rates
Chris@394 162
Chris@394 163 - A crash on exit in Windows has been fixed
Chris@394 164
Chris@394 165 - A very unobtrusive user survey is now included
Chris@394 166
Chris@394 167 - Various other bug fixes.
Chris@394 168
Chris@675 169
Chris@394 170 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.6 since the previous release 1.5:
Chris@394 171
Chris@394 172 - The Colour 3D Plot layer now supports logarithmic vertical
Chris@394 173 scale and linear interpolation options.
Chris@394 174
Chris@394 175 - A new colour scheme (High Gain) has been added for spectrogram
Chris@394 176 and Colour 3D Plot, which improves readability for some data.
Chris@394 177
Chris@394 178 - Further performance improvements have been made to Colour 3D
Chris@394 179 Plot.
Chris@394 180
Chris@394 181 - Various other bug fixes.
Chris@394 182
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Chris@394 184 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.5 since the previous version 1.4:
Chris@394 185
Chris@394 186 - You can now insert time instants, time values, and notes using
Chris@394 187 a MIDI device during playback. If a time value or note layer is
Chris@394 188 current it will be used for insertion (giving a value equal to
Chris@394 189 the pitch class, or the played note, respectively); otherwise an
Chris@394 190 existing or new time instants layer will be used just as it is
Chris@394 191 when inserting instants using the PC keyboard. Using a MIDI
Chris@394 192 device should give better timing than using the PC keyboard.
Chris@394 193
Chris@394 194 - There is a new Activity Log window with a (purely informative) list
Chris@394 195 of events and user interactions that happen while SV is running.
Chris@394 196
Chris@394 197 - The spectrogram has somewhat improved graphical scaling, and
Chris@394 198 this is now the default (being much faster than the 4x oversampled
Chris@394 199 method). The previous default is still available as a preference.
Chris@394 200
Chris@394 201 - Visualisation of very dense colour plots (such as spectrograms
Chris@394 202 calculated by plugins) is substantially faster in this release.
Chris@394 203
Chris@394 204 - Spectrogram display is now faster in many circumstances.
Chris@394 205
Chris@394 206 - Alignment using the MATCH plugin is faster on OS/X than before.
Chris@394 207
Chris@394 208 - SV will take into account RDF plugin descriptions, if available,
Chris@394 209 in order to make somewhat better decisions about display of plugin
Chris@394 210 outputs (for example, placing segmentation data into a layer with
Chris@394 211 segmentation plot type).
Chris@394 212
Chris@394 213 - You can now switch layers by clicking on the spare area at the left
Chris@394 214 end of the pane that is also used for the current pane indicator.
Chris@394 215
Chris@394 216 - The vertical black lines dividing segments in the time value
Chris@394 217 layer's segmentation plot style are now optional.
Chris@394 218
Chris@394 219 - Several widget layout bugs on OS/X have been fixed.
Chris@394 220
Chris@394 221 - Several serious crashing, deadlock, and data corruption bugs have
Chris@394 222 been fixed.
Chris@394 223
Chris@394 224
Chris@394 225 New features in Sonic Visualiser 1.4 since the previous version 1.3:
Chris@394 226
Chris@394 227 - SV now has a Region layer type, used for display of features with
Chris@394 228 durations. It also supports Vamp v2.0 plugins that provide durations
Chris@394 229 for features.
Chris@394 230
Chris@394 231 - Layer data can now be imported from RDF described using the Audio
Chris@394 232 Features Ontology, as well as from the existing text file types. SV
Chris@394 233 can also export annotation layer data to RDF/Turtle, although in a
Chris@394 234 somewhat simplistic manner at present.
Chris@394 235
Chris@394 236 - You can search for transforms by text in the new "Find a Transform"
Chris@394 237 dialog. This searches both installed plugins, and plugins that have
Chris@394 238 not been installed but that have descriptions available on the
Chris@394 239 semantic web.
Chris@394 240
Chris@394 241 - You can now zoom and scroll vertically in the time-value, note,
Chris@394 242 and colour 3d plot layers.
Chris@394 243
Chris@394 244 - Sonic Visualiser can now load sessions from uncompressed XML files
Chris@394 245 as well as its own compressed-XML .sv format. Files with extension
Chris@394 246 .xml that contain suitable session data will be loaded as sessions.
Chris@394 247 Note that .xml extension files still do not show up in the default
Chris@394 248 file load filter. This is intentional, as there may be any kind of
Chris@394 249 data in them -- if you want to load uncompressed session files from
Chris@394 250 XML, you need to know you're doing it.
Chris@394 251
Chris@394 252 - Several crashes and other bugs have been fixed.
Chris@394 253
Chris@675 254
Chris@394 255 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.3 since the previous version 1.2:
Chris@394 256
Chris@394 257 - There is a new spreadsheet-style data viewer and editor for
Chris@394 258 viewing and editing the data in some types of annotation layer.
Chris@394 259
Chris@394 260 - Alignments are now saved to the session file.
Chris@394 261
Chris@394 262 - The spectrogram layer is usually somewhat faster than it was.
Chris@394 263
Chris@394 264 - You can now hold Shift while dragging to move an item, in order
Chris@394 265 to override the initial drag resistance introduced in 1.2.
Chris@394 266
Chris@394 267 - The gross mis-labelling of time lines in the ruler has been fixed.
Chris@394 268
Chris@394 269 - There is a new, somewhat provisional PulseAudio output driver.
Chris@394 270
Chris@394 271 - Several other bug fixes.
Chris@394 272
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Chris@394 274 New features in Sonic Visualiser 1.2, since the previous version 1.0:
Chris@394 275
Chris@394 276 - SV now supports time-alignment of multiple performances of a work
Chris@394 277 loaded at the same time. This option is enabled when the MATCH Vamp
Chris@394 278 plugin is installed. When alignment is switched on and more than one
Chris@394 279 audio file is open, SV will assume that all open files are
Chris@394 280 differently timed performances of the same work, and will calculate
Chris@394 281 time alignments for them. Playback will then play only a single file
Chris@394 282 at a time, and the playback cursors in other files will track at the
Chris@394 283 varying speeds to try to ensure that each is at the same point in the
Chris@394 284 underlying score. This enables effective comparison of several such
Chris@394 285 files, as well as a meaningful way to switch from one performance to
Chris@394 286 another during playback (ensuring that the switch happens at the
Chris@394 287 correct point in the performance being switched to).
Chris@394 288
Chris@394 289 - There is a new Image layer, which can display images from the
Chris@394 290 local filesystem or retrieved via HTTP or FTP.
Chris@394 291
Chris@394 292 - A new measurement tool has been added. With the measurement tool
Chris@394 293 selected, dragging in a pane draws a rectangle labelled with the
Chris@394 294 scale values for its start and end corners and its size. You can
Chris@394 295 have any number of measurements present at once; they are associated
Chris@394 296 with the top layer, their scale values depend on the scale for that
Chris@394 297 layer, and they are only shown when that layer is at the top and the
Chris@394 298 measurement tool is active. Measurements are saved and reloaded in
Chris@394 299 the session file. Drawing measurements can be undone and redone, and
Chris@394 300 a measurement can be deleted by hitting Del when highlighted. Note
Chris@394 301 that the measurement tool shows the scale values associated with the
Chris@394 302 pixel positions of the mouse when dragging, not any values associated
Chris@394 303 with actual features present in the audio or its analysis (e.g. the
Chris@394 304 values are not rounded to the nearest spectrogram bin).
Chris@394 305
Chris@394 306 - You can double-click using the measurement tool in the spectrogram
Chris@394 307 to get an instant measurement rectangle for a feature. This is a
Chris@394 308 purely graphical feature that works by calculating the boundary of a
Chris@394 309 contiguous region of pixels "similar to" the one you double-clicked
Chris@394 310 on; it does not use audio analysis. Adjusting the gain and colour
Chris@394 311 scheme etc of the spectrogram will (by design) affect the
Chris@394 312 measurements obtained this way.
Chris@394 313
Chris@394 314 - The spectrum can now optionally show frequency estimates of peaks
Chris@394 315 aligned with a piano keyboard along the horizontal axis (this needs
Chris@394 316 some refinement).
Chris@394 317
Chris@394 318 - The harmonic cursor in the spectrogram has moved from the Select
Chris@394 319 tool to the Measurement tool. There is now a similar harmonic cursor
Chris@394 320 in the spectrum. Both of them show more information as text
Chris@394 321 alongside the cursor than previously.
Chris@394 322
Chris@394 323 - There is a new Erase tool for erasing individual points from an
Chris@394 324 editable layer.
Chris@394 325
Chris@394 326 - Several keyboard shortcuts have changed -- all of the Alt+key
Chris@394 327 shortcuts now either use Ctrl or a plain keypress with no modifier,
Chris@394 328 to avoid clashes with window manager shortcuts and to make them
Chris@394 329 easier to use and remember
Chris@394 330
Chris@394 331 - The playback controls are now in a Playback menu as well as the
Chris@394 332 toolbar.
Chris@394 333
Chris@394 334 - There is a new key and mouse control reference under Help (or press
Chris@394 335 F2).
Chris@394 336
Chris@394 337 - You can double-click on a pane in navigate mode to jump to a time.
Chris@394 338
Chris@394 339 - All of the single-colour layers (waveform, time values etc) now
Chris@394 340 allow you to define your own colours as well as using the built-in
Chris@394 341 set. The colour of a layer is now shown next to its name on the pane.
Chris@394 342
Chris@394 343 - When you add a new single-colour layer it will use a default colour
Chris@394 344 that is not yet in use in another layer (if there is one).
Chris@394 345
Chris@394 346 - Single-colour layers can now optionally have black backgrounds (with
Chris@394 347 a set of lighter colours in the default colour palette that use black
Chris@394 348 backgrounds by default).
Chris@394 349
Chris@394 350 - There's a new Printer colour scheme in the spectrogram with only a
Chris@394 351 small number of grey shades.
Chris@394 352
Chris@394 353 - Vertical zoom in a log-scaled spectrogram is much more intuitive;
Chris@394 354 it now leaves the point that was in the centre of the visible area in
Chris@394 355 the centre after zoom, instead of the point that was in the centre of
Chris@394 356 the linear range corresponding to the visible area.
Chris@394 357
Chris@394 358 - You can now turn a colour 3d plot layer upside down by clicking the
Chris@394 359 Invert Vertical Scale button.
Chris@394 360
Chris@394 361 - There's a new Layer Summary window which shows the panes and
Chris@394 362 layer data in a tree layout. This is very simplistic at the moment.
Chris@394 363
Chris@394 364 - Each pane now has an [X] button at its top left, which removes that
Chris@394 365 pane when clicked.
Chris@394 366
Chris@394 367 - There's a new Solo play mode toggle button; when active, only the
Chris@394 368 currently selected pane is played. This is also the default when
Chris@394 369 time alignment is in use.
Chris@394 370
Chris@394 371 - Rewind/ffwd now stay confined to the selection if Play Selection is
Chris@394 372 enabled; also, the rewind and ffwd "one step" buttons are now enabled
Chris@394 373 even if there is no time instants layer for them to align to (they
Chris@394 374 align to the time ruler instead and so jump in steps of a size
Chris@394 375 dependent on the zoom level).
Chris@394 376
Chris@394 377 - You can now export note layers to MIDI.
Chris@394 378
Chris@394 379 - MIDI note velocity is partially supported. Note velocity is
Chris@394 380 retained when importing and exporting MIDI and is used in playback,
Chris@394 381 but it is not yet shown in the display and cannot yet be edited.
Chris@394 382
Chris@394 383 - You can now drag-and-drop files (of whatever type) onto SV from
Chris@394 384 other programs such as file managers or web browsers.
Chris@394 385
Chris@394 386 - mp3 files (and Ogg, but they aren't supported on Windows at the
Chris@394 387 moment) are now decoded in a background thread so you can see the
Chris@394 388 start of the track without waiting for the rest to decode.
Chris@394 389
Chris@394 390 - Mac builds of SV can now load AAC/mp4 files and anything else
Chris@394 391 supported by QuickTime.
Chris@394 392
Chris@394 393 - There is now an option to resample audio files on import if they
Chris@394 394 don't match the samplerate of the first file loaded. By default this
Chris@394 395 is switched off, as it affects the visible waveform. The default
Chris@394 396 behaviour is unchanged (play at the wrong rate). There is still no
Chris@394 397 option to handle multiple rates "correctly" (i.e. by resampling
Chris@394 398 on playback and showing the waveforms at different resolutions
Chris@394 399 according to each one's underlying rate) and there probably never
Chris@394 400 will be.
Chris@394 401
Chris@394 402 - SV can now open .m3u playlist files, though it's a hazardous thing
Chris@394 403 to do as it simply loads all the files in the playlist at once.
Chris@394 404
Chris@394 405 - SV now has various options for how to number tapped time instants
Chris@394 406 (bar/beat, plain counter, time in seconds, tempo etc).
Chris@394 407
Chris@394 408 - The official builds use Qt 4.3, which fixes some nasty
Chris@394 409 bugs in the file dialog that the version 1.0 builds suffered from.
Chris@394 410