This turned out to be the result of the GNU C library, glibc, and the CIFS mounting utility not playing together nicely. The current version has problems opening files and folders on mounted CIFS/SMB shares. Also note that this only affects the LAME decoder, not the encoder which is perfectly thread safe. Fortunately, the MAD or mpg123 decoders, which do not have such issues, are used on most systems. The next snapshot will fix that by disabling parallel mode for the LAME decoder. This turned out to be an issue with the LAME MP3 decoder not being thread safe - which unfortunately is not mentioned in the LAME docs and thus was not taken into account by fre:ac.
The bug hunting season is openĪfter a release usually is bug hunting time - even more so with two releases from different branches, so in the past three weeks I was mostly fixing issues reported by users:Ī user running fre:ac on Linux reported garbled output when converting MP3 files in multi core mode. I already made myself familiar with Haiku's package management system (which really is one of the best I've ever come across), but still have some issues to fix before I can provide official fre:ac packages. While there are not many places in fre:ac where that matters at the moment, it will become more important in future versions when the video downloader extension will be made available again.Īt the moment - besides other things -, I'm working on creating packages for the Haiku operating system (mentioned here in December). The smooth Class Library which forms the base for fre:ac now uses libcurl for HTTP transfers and enables support of the HTTPS protocol. It now supports all encoders available in the GUI version and recognizes a new option to select from different available configurations. The freaccmd command line utility also got some improvements in the March snapshot. In addition, the new snapshot introduces an placeholder for the filename pattern and supports an optional joblist column for the album artist. fre:ac now reads and writes this value and adds an edit field for it in the tag editor. Likely the most important addition is support for the album artist tag field. Here are some more that I didn't cover here yet: Lots of improvements, such as title info extraction from file names, per-folder playlists/cuesheets or reading embedded cuesheets, have been mentioned in previous posts already. 20170317 snapshot releaseĪfter fre:ac 1.0.28 was out, I concentrated on finishing the snapshot release. Previous versions of fre:ac had problems handling files with invalid tags that announced the presence of cover art, but contained no actual data. fre:ac 1.0.28įre:ac 1.0.28 was finally released in February with the FLAC codec updated to version 1.3.2 and an important fix for cover art handling.
Freac covers update#
Thus, this update covers the past two months - February and March - and got rather lengthy.
Sorry for not giving an update last month - I was really busy preparing the March snapshot release. Her secret passion with computers means every file on them is available to her eyes, and when she is saved from assassination by international criminals, by the father-figure who becomes her life-partner, she builds up the planet's largest high-tech and finance institutions, but at enormous personal cost to herself, her closest friends, and especially her estranged family, whom she almost destroys.Hi folks, here's a new update on fre:ac development progress. Correcting Einstein's errors at the age of 15-and immediately hiding them again when she realises their potential military use- she moves into the world of International Finance.
Born to a latter-day Hippie mother, whose broad-mindedness shape's Freak's outlook, her millionaire step-father feels morally obliged to throw unlimited money on her private education. Flashbacks in alternate chapters chart her life and rise to power. The methods she uses to try and save her sibling will ultimately set in train the threat of her own destruction. The methods she uses to try and save he The four books of the Quaternary covers the period from 1990-2130 as Freak pushes technology advances forwards by several centuries, totally reshaping society by dismantling the ability to wage wars, or the need for money, or work! Part One of Freak covers a three week period following the brutal kidnapping of her 14 year old sister. The four books of the Quaternary covers the period from 1990-2130 as Freak pushes technology advances forwards by several centuries, totally reshaping society by dismantling the ability to wage wars, or the need for money, or work! Part One of Freak covers a three week period following the brutal kidnapping of her 14 year old sister.