annotate CHANGELOG @ 874:cd5ccb1e613b 2.4-stable

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author Chris Cannam
date Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:26:09 +0100
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Chris@716 1
Chris@714 2 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.4 since the previous release 2.3:
Chris@714 3
Chris@776 4 - Add support for left/right scrolling using a two-finger touchpad
Chris@776 5 gesture (where available)
Chris@776 6
Chris@716 7 - Make the octave numbering into a configurable option, and change
Chris@716 8 the default. Previously Sonic Visualiser labelled middle-C as "C3";
Chris@716 9 now it labels middle-C as "C4", a more common standard in the world
Chris@776 10 outside MIDI sequencer software. The previous system is available
Chris@776 11 as an option in the Preferences. This affects only the visible
Chris@776 12 labels: there is no change to analysis or to the file format
Chris@714 13
Chris@714 14 - Sonify time-value layers. Any time-value curve whose scale unit is
Chris@714 15 set to Hz will now acquire a playback toggle control; this control
Chris@714 16 is off by default, but if it is switched on, the curve will be
Chris@714 17 played back using a variable-frequency sound generator
Chris@714 18
Chris@714 19 - Add support for playback of note layers with non-MIDI frequencies
Chris@714 20 (formerly the note playback was limited to exact MIDI pitch)
Chris@714 21
Chris@714 22 - Change the default playback sample for note layers from piano to an
Chris@714 23 electric piano with sustain. The piano sample is still available,
Chris@714 24 and any sessions saved using it should continue to use it
Chris@714 25
Chris@867 26 - Add a cancel button for Vamp plugin processing: currently,
Chris@867 27 cancelling a transform results in a part-complete layer rather than
Chris@867 28 removing the results
Chris@867 29
Chris@790 30 - Add keyboard shortcuts to cycle the current layer (in addition to
Chris@790 31 the existing ones to cycle the current pane)
Chris@790 32
Chris@790 33 - Fix various bugs related to layer ordering: layer tabs re-ordering
Chris@790 34 themselves randomly when new layer added, layers being ordered
Chris@791 35 randomly when saving and reloading a session
Chris@790 36
Chris@848 37 - Fix incorrect interaction with non-Unicode usernames when creating
Chris@848 38 temporary and template directories on Windows
Chris@848 39
Chris@714 40 - Shade the start and end of the main audio file, to make them easier
Chris@714 41 to see for files that start or end in silence
Chris@714 42
Chris@714 43 - Speed up rendering and scrolling in time-value layers
Chris@714 44
Chris@714 45 - Make it possible to import CSV files directly into Note layers by
Chris@714 46 adding Pitch as a data type in the CSV file import dialog
Chris@675 47
Chris@856 48 - Fix play pointer jump to wrong frame when clicking on row in the
Chris@856 49 layer edit dialog
Chris@856 50
Chris@848 51 - Fix problems with keyboard shortcuts when using Qt5 on OS/X. This
Chris@848 52 is the first release in which the official builds use Qt5 for all
Chris@848 53 platforms.
Chris@848 54
Chris@675 55
Chris@675 56 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.3 since the previous release 2.2:
Chris@675 57
Chris@675 58 - Add a startup welcome dialog that also explains what SV makes
Chris@675 59 network connections for and allows user to forbid them
Chris@675 60
Chris@675 61 - Add "Export Audio Data" feature
Chris@675 62
Chris@675 63 - Show piano keyboard scale in note and time-value layers as well
Chris@675 64 as spectrogram, where vertical scale is log Hz; also show
Chris@675 65 numerical scale in note and region layers when not auto-aligned
Chris@675 66
Chris@675 67 - Speed up CSV file import and avoid showing crazily wide window
Chris@675 68 for CSV file format dialog when file has lots of columns
Chris@675 69
Chris@675 70 - Fix incorrectly saved window geometry when exiting from maximised
Chris@675 71 state
Chris@675 72
Chris@675 73 - Reduce number of timer wakeups when idle
Chris@675 74
Chris@675 75 - Add American English translation and make choice of translation
Chris@675 76 into a preference (defaulting to system locale)
Chris@675 77
Chris@675 78 - Permit installation to non-default location with Windows installer
Chris@675 79 build
Chris@714 80
Chris@608 81
Chris@608 82 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.2 since the previous release 2.1:
Chris@608 83
Chris@608 84 - Build with support for hidpi ("retina") text on OS/X
Chris@675 85
Chris@608 86 - Fix very slow analysis when using Ogg or FLAC files decoded
Chris@608 87 via libsndfile
Chris@675 88
Chris@608 89 - Fix inaccurate scale auto-align between time-value layers and
Chris@608 90 others
Chris@675 91
Chris@608 92 - Fix failure to open files specified on command line (or via
Chris@608 93 Open With) on Windows
Chris@675 94
Chris@608 95 - Reset cyclical counters and switch back to navigate mode when
Chris@608 96 a new session is started
Chris@579 97
Chris@675 98
Chris@579 99 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.1 since the previous release 2.0.1:
Chris@579 100
Chris@579 101 - Fix incorrect handling of FixedSampleRate outputs (Vamp SDK fix)
Chris@675 102
Chris@579 103 - Make it easier to see results from transforms that return a single point
Chris@675 104
Chris@579 105 - Make labelling clearer on time-value layers
Chris@675 106
Chris@579 107 - Add discrete-curve mode for time-value layers (for curves with gaps)
Chris@675 108
Chris@579 109 - Update code to build against Qt5
Chris@523 110
Chris@675 111
Chris@523 112 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.0.1 since the previous release 2.0:
Chris@523 113
Chris@523 114 - Fix incorrect samplerate in reading m4a files on OS/X
Chris@512 115
Chris@675 116
Chris@512 117 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.0 since the previous release 1.9:
Chris@512 118
Chris@512 119 - Support 64-bit builds on OS/X (using CoreAudio instead of
Chris@512 120 obsolete QuickTime audio file reader)
Chris@512 121
Chris@512 122 - Simplify RDF reading and fix some bugs. Now requires Dataquay
Chris@512 123 (http://breakfastquay.com/dataquay/) rather than using Redland
Chris@512 124 directly. Release builds use Sord/Serd rather than Redland
Chris@512 125
Chris@512 126 - Add a fullscreen mode on the F11 key
Chris@471 127
Chris@675 128
Chris@471 129 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.9 since the previous release 1.8:
Chris@471 130
Chris@471 131 - Add session templates; save session as template; apply template to
Chris@471 132 session
Chris@471 133
Chris@471 134 - Tidy up the file open logic so as to remove the dialog asking how
Chris@471 135 to open a file, where possible
Chris@471 136
Chris@471 137 - Various bug fixes.
Chris@394 138
Chris@675 139
Chris@394 140 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.8 since the previous release 1.7.2:
Chris@394 141
Chris@394 142 - Sonic Visualiser now registers as a file type handler on OS/X,
Chris@394 143 providing better integration with the desktop generally (Dan Stowell)
Chris@394 144
Chris@394 145 - There is a new function to toggle all Time Rulers at once (key #)
Chris@394 146
Chris@407 147 - The CSV import dialog has been overhauled, allowing more flexible
Chris@407 148 selection of purpose for each column
Chris@407 149
Chris@394 150 - Text overlays are now easier to read on dark backgrounds
Chris@394 151
Chris@394 152 - Hidden layers are now ignored when exporting an image (Dan Stowell)
Chris@394 153
Chris@394 154 - A crash when starting a new session or exiting the application
Chris@394 155 after loading a session with saved alignment data has been fixed
Chris@394 156
Chris@394 157 - The duplication of right-button menu functions when multiple files
Chris@394 158 were loaded has been fixed
Chris@394 159
Chris@394 160 - The layer-add menu functions now have shortcuts (Dan Stowell)
Chris@394 161
Chris@394 162 - The codebase has been reorganised into libraries and a configure
Chris@394 163 step added. It should be easier to build and maintain on OS/X and
Chris@394 164 Linux than previously, although it won't make much difference on
Chris@394 165 Windows.
Chris@394 166
Chris@397 167 - A Czech translation is now included (thanks to Pavel Fric).
Chris@397 168
Chris@675 169
Chris@394 170 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.7.2 since the previous release 1.7.1:
Chris@394 171
Chris@394 172 - The time-value layer now has an origin line and an option to
Chris@394 173 show derivatives (change from one point to the next) rather than
Chris@394 174 raw values
Chris@394 175
Chris@394 176 - A static initialiser race has been fixed, possibly fixing an
Chris@394 177 occasional crash on startup in Windows
Chris@394 178
Chris@394 179 - A crash when pressing Play straight after New Session has been
Chris@394 180 fixed
Chris@394 181
Chris@675 182
Chris@394 183 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.7.1 since the previous release 1.7:
Chris@394 184
Chris@394 185 - The RDF importer does a better job of assigning labels to layers,
Chris@394 186 layers to panes, and values to labelled regions
Chris@394 187
Chris@394 188 - Interactive editing in the Text layer benefits from the same
Chris@394 189 improvements as made in 1.7 to Note and Region layers
Chris@394 190
Chris@394 191 - The layer data editor window has a text search feature
Chris@394 192
Chris@394 193 - The main window status bar now shows the last label to have passed
Chris@394 194 the playback position in the current layer, at the right end of the
Chris@394 195 status bar
Chris@394 196
Chris@394 197 - The Russian translation has been updated (thanks Alexandre)
Chris@394 198
Chris@675 199
Chris@394 200 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.7 since the previous release 1.6:
Chris@394 201
Chris@394 202 - A new "Insert Item At Selection" function on the Edit menu
Chris@394 203 can be used to create Note and Region layer items whose time
Chris@394 204 extents correspond to the current selection(s)
Chris@394 205
Chris@394 206 - Interactively editing points in the Note and Region layers
Chris@394 207 now works much more smoothly
Chris@394 208
Chris@394 209 - SV can now import MIDI files that use SMPTE timecode for event
Chris@394 210 timing (importing MIDI files using with the more common
Chris@394 211 timebase-based timing was already supported)
Chris@394 212
Chris@394 213 - Time values throughout the display may optionally be shown in
Chris@394 214 seconds and frames at various frame rates
Chris@394 215
Chris@394 216 - A crash on exit in Windows has been fixed
Chris@394 217
Chris@394 218 - A very unobtrusive user survey is now included
Chris@394 219
Chris@394 220 - Various other bug fixes.
Chris@394 221
Chris@675 222
Chris@394 223 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.6 since the previous release 1.5:
Chris@394 224
Chris@394 225 - The Colour 3D Plot layer now supports logarithmic vertical
Chris@394 226 scale and linear interpolation options.
Chris@394 227
Chris@394 228 - A new colour scheme (High Gain) has been added for spectrogram
Chris@394 229 and Colour 3D Plot, which improves readability for some data.
Chris@394 230
Chris@394 231 - Further performance improvements have been made to Colour 3D
Chris@394 232 Plot.
Chris@394 233
Chris@394 234 - Various other bug fixes.
Chris@394 235
Chris@675 236
Chris@394 237 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.5 since the previous version 1.4:
Chris@394 238
Chris@394 239 - You can now insert time instants, time values, and notes using
Chris@394 240 a MIDI device during playback. If a time value or note layer is
Chris@394 241 current it will be used for insertion (giving a value equal to
Chris@394 242 the pitch class, or the played note, respectively); otherwise an
Chris@394 243 existing or new time instants layer will be used just as it is
Chris@394 244 when inserting instants using the PC keyboard. Using a MIDI
Chris@394 245 device should give better timing than using the PC keyboard.
Chris@394 246
Chris@394 247 - There is a new Activity Log window with a (purely informative) list
Chris@394 248 of events and user interactions that happen while SV is running.
Chris@394 249
Chris@394 250 - The spectrogram has somewhat improved graphical scaling, and
Chris@394 251 this is now the default (being much faster than the 4x oversampled
Chris@394 252 method). The previous default is still available as a preference.
Chris@394 253
Chris@394 254 - Visualisation of very dense colour plots (such as spectrograms
Chris@394 255 calculated by plugins) is substantially faster in this release.
Chris@394 256
Chris@394 257 - Spectrogram display is now faster in many circumstances.
Chris@394 258
Chris@394 259 - Alignment using the MATCH plugin is faster on OS/X than before.
Chris@394 260
Chris@394 261 - SV will take into account RDF plugin descriptions, if available,
Chris@394 262 in order to make somewhat better decisions about display of plugin
Chris@394 263 outputs (for example, placing segmentation data into a layer with
Chris@394 264 segmentation plot type).
Chris@394 265
Chris@394 266 - You can now switch layers by clicking on the spare area at the left
Chris@394 267 end of the pane that is also used for the current pane indicator.
Chris@394 268
Chris@394 269 - The vertical black lines dividing segments in the time value
Chris@394 270 layer's segmentation plot style are now optional.
Chris@394 271
Chris@394 272 - Several widget layout bugs on OS/X have been fixed.
Chris@394 273
Chris@394 274 - Several serious crashing, deadlock, and data corruption bugs have
Chris@394 275 been fixed.
Chris@394 276
Chris@394 277
Chris@394 278 New features in Sonic Visualiser 1.4 since the previous version 1.3:
Chris@394 279
Chris@394 280 - SV now has a Region layer type, used for display of features with
Chris@394 281 durations. It also supports Vamp v2.0 plugins that provide durations
Chris@394 282 for features.
Chris@394 283
Chris@394 284 - Layer data can now be imported from RDF described using the Audio
Chris@394 285 Features Ontology, as well as from the existing text file types. SV
Chris@394 286 can also export annotation layer data to RDF/Turtle, although in a
Chris@394 287 somewhat simplistic manner at present.
Chris@394 288
Chris@394 289 - You can search for transforms by text in the new "Find a Transform"
Chris@394 290 dialog. This searches both installed plugins, and plugins that have
Chris@394 291 not been installed but that have descriptions available on the
Chris@394 292 semantic web.
Chris@394 293
Chris@394 294 - You can now zoom and scroll vertically in the time-value, note,
Chris@394 295 and colour 3d plot layers.
Chris@394 296
Chris@394 297 - Sonic Visualiser can now load sessions from uncompressed XML files
Chris@394 298 as well as its own compressed-XML .sv format. Files with extension
Chris@394 299 .xml that contain suitable session data will be loaded as sessions.
Chris@394 300 Note that .xml extension files still do not show up in the default
Chris@394 301 file load filter. This is intentional, as there may be any kind of
Chris@394 302 data in them -- if you want to load uncompressed session files from
Chris@394 303 XML, you need to know you're doing it.
Chris@394 304
Chris@394 305 - Several crashes and other bugs have been fixed.
Chris@394 306
Chris@675 307
Chris@394 308 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.3 since the previous version 1.2:
Chris@394 309
Chris@394 310 - There is a new spreadsheet-style data viewer and editor for
Chris@394 311 viewing and editing the data in some types of annotation layer.
Chris@394 312
Chris@394 313 - Alignments are now saved to the session file.
Chris@394 314
Chris@394 315 - The spectrogram layer is usually somewhat faster than it was.
Chris@394 316
Chris@394 317 - You can now hold Shift while dragging to move an item, in order
Chris@394 318 to override the initial drag resistance introduced in 1.2.
Chris@394 319
Chris@394 320 - The gross mis-labelling of time lines in the ruler has been fixed.
Chris@394 321
Chris@394 322 - There is a new, somewhat provisional PulseAudio output driver.
Chris@394 323
Chris@394 324 - Several other bug fixes.
Chris@394 325
Chris@675 326
Chris@394 327 New features in Sonic Visualiser 1.2, since the previous version 1.0:
Chris@394 328
Chris@394 329 - SV now supports time-alignment of multiple performances of a work
Chris@394 330 loaded at the same time. This option is enabled when the MATCH Vamp
Chris@394 331 plugin is installed. When alignment is switched on and more than one
Chris@394 332 audio file is open, SV will assume that all open files are
Chris@394 333 differently timed performances of the same work, and will calculate
Chris@394 334 time alignments for them. Playback will then play only a single file
Chris@394 335 at a time, and the playback cursors in other files will track at the
Chris@394 336 varying speeds to try to ensure that each is at the same point in the
Chris@394 337 underlying score. This enables effective comparison of several such
Chris@394 338 files, as well as a meaningful way to switch from one performance to
Chris@394 339 another during playback (ensuring that the switch happens at the
Chris@394 340 correct point in the performance being switched to).
Chris@394 341
Chris@394 342 - There is a new Image layer, which can display images from the
Chris@394 343 local filesystem or retrieved via HTTP or FTP.
Chris@394 344
Chris@394 345 - A new measurement tool has been added. With the measurement tool
Chris@394 346 selected, dragging in a pane draws a rectangle labelled with the
Chris@394 347 scale values for its start and end corners and its size. You can
Chris@394 348 have any number of measurements present at once; they are associated
Chris@394 349 with the top layer, their scale values depend on the scale for that
Chris@394 350 layer, and they are only shown when that layer is at the top and the
Chris@394 351 measurement tool is active. Measurements are saved and reloaded in
Chris@394 352 the session file. Drawing measurements can be undone and redone, and
Chris@394 353 a measurement can be deleted by hitting Del when highlighted. Note
Chris@394 354 that the measurement tool shows the scale values associated with the
Chris@394 355 pixel positions of the mouse when dragging, not any values associated
Chris@394 356 with actual features present in the audio or its analysis (e.g. the
Chris@394 357 values are not rounded to the nearest spectrogram bin).
Chris@394 358
Chris@394 359 - You can double-click using the measurement tool in the spectrogram
Chris@394 360 to get an instant measurement rectangle for a feature. This is a
Chris@394 361 purely graphical feature that works by calculating the boundary of a
Chris@394 362 contiguous region of pixels "similar to" the one you double-clicked
Chris@394 363 on; it does not use audio analysis. Adjusting the gain and colour
Chris@394 364 scheme etc of the spectrogram will (by design) affect the
Chris@394 365 measurements obtained this way.
Chris@394 366
Chris@394 367 - The spectrum can now optionally show frequency estimates of peaks
Chris@394 368 aligned with a piano keyboard along the horizontal axis (this needs
Chris@394 369 some refinement).
Chris@394 370
Chris@394 371 - The harmonic cursor in the spectrogram has moved from the Select
Chris@394 372 tool to the Measurement tool. There is now a similar harmonic cursor
Chris@394 373 in the spectrum. Both of them show more information as text
Chris@394 374 alongside the cursor than previously.
Chris@394 375
Chris@394 376 - There is a new Erase tool for erasing individual points from an
Chris@394 377 editable layer.
Chris@394 378
Chris@394 379 - Several keyboard shortcuts have changed -- all of the Alt+key
Chris@394 380 shortcuts now either use Ctrl or a plain keypress with no modifier,
Chris@394 381 to avoid clashes with window manager shortcuts and to make them
Chris@394 382 easier to use and remember
Chris@394 383
Chris@394 384 - The playback controls are now in a Playback menu as well as the
Chris@394 385 toolbar.
Chris@394 386
Chris@394 387 - There is a new key and mouse control reference under Help (or press
Chris@394 388 F2).
Chris@394 389
Chris@394 390 - You can double-click on a pane in navigate mode to jump to a time.
Chris@394 391
Chris@394 392 - All of the single-colour layers (waveform, time values etc) now
Chris@394 393 allow you to define your own colours as well as using the built-in
Chris@394 394 set. The colour of a layer is now shown next to its name on the pane.
Chris@394 395
Chris@394 396 - When you add a new single-colour layer it will use a default colour
Chris@394 397 that is not yet in use in another layer (if there is one).
Chris@394 398
Chris@394 399 - Single-colour layers can now optionally have black backgrounds (with
Chris@394 400 a set of lighter colours in the default colour palette that use black
Chris@394 401 backgrounds by default).
Chris@394 402
Chris@394 403 - There's a new Printer colour scheme in the spectrogram with only a
Chris@394 404 small number of grey shades.
Chris@394 405
Chris@394 406 - Vertical zoom in a log-scaled spectrogram is much more intuitive;
Chris@394 407 it now leaves the point that was in the centre of the visible area in
Chris@394 408 the centre after zoom, instead of the point that was in the centre of
Chris@394 409 the linear range corresponding to the visible area.
Chris@394 410
Chris@394 411 - You can now turn a colour 3d plot layer upside down by clicking the
Chris@394 412 Invert Vertical Scale button.
Chris@394 413
Chris@394 414 - There's a new Layer Summary window which shows the panes and
Chris@394 415 layer data in a tree layout. This is very simplistic at the moment.
Chris@394 416
Chris@394 417 - Each pane now has an [X] button at its top left, which removes that
Chris@394 418 pane when clicked.
Chris@394 419
Chris@394 420 - There's a new Solo play mode toggle button; when active, only the
Chris@394 421 currently selected pane is played. This is also the default when
Chris@394 422 time alignment is in use.
Chris@394 423
Chris@394 424 - Rewind/ffwd now stay confined to the selection if Play Selection is
Chris@394 425 enabled; also, the rewind and ffwd "one step" buttons are now enabled
Chris@394 426 even if there is no time instants layer for them to align to (they
Chris@394 427 align to the time ruler instead and so jump in steps of a size
Chris@394 428 dependent on the zoom level).
Chris@394 429
Chris@394 430 - You can now export note layers to MIDI.
Chris@394 431
Chris@394 432 - MIDI note velocity is partially supported. Note velocity is
Chris@394 433 retained when importing and exporting MIDI and is used in playback,
Chris@394 434 but it is not yet shown in the display and cannot yet be edited.
Chris@394 435
Chris@394 436 - You can now drag-and-drop files (of whatever type) onto SV from
Chris@394 437 other programs such as file managers or web browsers.
Chris@394 438
Chris@394 439 - mp3 files (and Ogg, but they aren't supported on Windows at the
Chris@394 440 moment) are now decoded in a background thread so you can see the
Chris@394 441 start of the track without waiting for the rest to decode.
Chris@394 442
Chris@394 443 - Mac builds of SV can now load AAC/mp4 files and anything else
Chris@394 444 supported by QuickTime.
Chris@394 445
Chris@394 446 - There is now an option to resample audio files on import if they
Chris@394 447 don't match the samplerate of the first file loaded. By default this
Chris@394 448 is switched off, as it affects the visible waveform. The default
Chris@394 449 behaviour is unchanged (play at the wrong rate). There is still no
Chris@394 450 option to handle multiple rates "correctly" (i.e. by resampling
Chris@394 451 on playback and showing the waveforms at different resolutions
Chris@394 452 according to each one's underlying rate) and there probably never
Chris@394 453 will be.
Chris@394 454
Chris@394 455 - SV can now open .m3u playlist files, though it's a hazardous thing
Chris@394 456 to do as it simply loads all the files in the playlist at once.
Chris@394 457
Chris@394 458 - SV now has various options for how to number tapped time instants
Chris@394 459 (bar/beat, plain counter, time in seconds, tempo etc).
Chris@394 460
Chris@394 461 - The official builds use Qt 4.3, which fixes some nasty
Chris@394 462 bugs in the file dialog that the version 1.0 builds suffered from.
Chris@394 463