Changelog
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Subversion
- Ogg Vorbis: enable floating point quality settings, and VBR nominal bitrates
Version 1.7.5 (July 5, 2014)
- WavPack lossy: don't remove Replaygain tags after transcoding
- APEv2 tags: ignore tag fields with empty value, transform duplicate fields into unique multi-value fields
- APEv2: fix handling of tags that start with '('
- Opus: added support for embedded artwork
Version 1.7.4 (May 12, 2014)
- by default, set the number of processes to the number of logical CPU cores if equal to 4 or lower, or to the number of physical CPU cores
- when applying Replaygain, make additional -G parameter act as a preamp value
Version 1.7.3 (February 15, 2014)
- new -DDD parameter: delete source file upon successful transcoding (USE WITH CARE)
- new sampling rates and preset: 352800 Hz, 384000 Hz, -r dxd
- replaygain bugfix: check for multichannel audio instead of strictly mono or stereo
- bugfix: sanitize track and disc number metadata
Version 1.7.2 (October 22, 2013)
- added support for WavPack 4.70.0
- replaced all URLs with caudec.net
Version 1.7.1 (September 3, 2013)
- added peak normalization with -G albumpeak (by album) and -G trackpeak (by track)
- use TAK multithreading when it makes sense (faster encoding)
- replaced apetag optional dependency with a custom utility, APEv2, which supports previously missing features: NULL separated lists, embedded artwork and binary data
- added support for extracting and importing APEv2 artwork
- significantly sped up extracting embedded artwork from FLAC files
- support parsing version number of lossyWAV 1.3.1 and up
- added support for PERFORMER metadata
- new ID3Padding configuration parameter: size in bytes of padding to add to MP3 tags (default: 512 bytes)
Version 1.7.0 (June 17, 2013)
- new -2 parameter: convert mono and multichannel audio to stereo (upmix / downmix), using proper channel mappings
- -r cd preset now implies -b 16 -r 44100 -2 (includes automatic conversion to stereo where applicable)
- new -z parameter: produce machine-parsable output
- added support for AIFF and CAF (encoding / decoding)
- directories are now accepted as input: caudec will automatically find all eligible files within those directories (use in conjunction with ignoreUnsupportedFiles)
- new ignoreUnsupportedFiles configuration parameter: set to true to prevent caudec from aborting when some of the input files are unsupported (false by default)
- -t (testing file integrity) can now be used with all lossless codecs, using hash metadata (-H)
- added SHA256 and SHA512 hashing
- renamed 'CRC' to 'CRC32'; backward compatibility with files tagged with 'CRC=' is maintained
- check internal MD5 hash whenever possible, to detect potential codec bugs
- new enableColors configuration parameter: true by default, set to false to disable coloring of human-readable output
- new useBrightColors configuration parameter: true by default, set to false to use darker colors (enableColors needs to be true)
- -G parameter (apply gain) and -S parameter (compute Soundcheck data) can now take an arbitrary value (signed number from -99.99 to +99.99)
- significantly sped up computing album gain
- check the output of replaygain tools more thoroughly
- caudec -g: process multiline metadata
- various fixes when computing Replaygain with Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and AAC files
- new dependencies: SoX (mandatory) and ffmpeg (ALAC, AAC and Monkey's Audio)
- removed shntool and alac dependencies
- let SoX output Microsoft-compliant WAV files (fixes some compatibility issues with multichannel files)
- added support for eyeD3 version 0.6.x and 0.7.x; the former is recommended however, as the latter is broken
- workaround for broken eyeD3 0.7.1: set front cover artwork in MP3 files, if available
- better handling of Windows binaries with Wine; search home directory to find Wine user directories automatically
- don't store empty hash metadata, when hashing fails
- better detection of the number of CPU cores
- improved example command line that caudec outputs when fed too many files
- removed confusing 'm4a' codec name (with -c)
- fixed lossyTAK regression
- lossyWV: use --merge-blocks (better compression)
- better ramdisk space management (various fixes and improvements)
- new ramdisk space usage monitoring function: print a warning if the estimation was too low
- better comparison of version numbers when checking for new versions online
- only strip out ENCODING metadata field when transcoding
- more compact display of statistics in human-readable output: removed unnecessary values
- many, many more fixes
Version 1.6.4 (April 29, 2013)
- -o/O/P may now be specified after each -c parameter, in order to set per-codec destination directories (useful when transcoding to several codecs at once)
- allow simultaneous usage of codecs with the same file extension (e.g. ALAC and AAC; just make sure to specify per-codec destination directories)
- reduced ramdisk space requirements, especially with lossyWAV
Version 1.6.3 (April 16, 2013)
- new -k parameter: keep existing destination files (don't overwrite them)
- new -K parameter: keep existing destination files if they're newer than their source
- fixed OS Ⅹ compatibility (GNU version of sed required: gsed)
- fixed: -P DIR -c lossyWAV
- fixed APEv2 to APEv2 tagging regression
- fixed division by zero bug; use gdate on OS Ⅹ if available
- removed fgrep and readlink dependencies, consolidated various command lines
Version 1.6.2 (March 26, 2013)
- new -u parameter: check for new versions
- new sendHardwareDetails configuration parameter (defaults to false): include CPU and RAM information in caudec's User Agent string when checking for new versions
- added caudec's User Agent string in the output of caudec -h (test with sendHardwareDetails set to true and false)
- added CBR (constant) and CVBR (constrained) bitrate modes and parameters (-b/-B) for Opus (see important note)
- added tagCompressionSetting configuration parameter: store compression setting in metadata (defaults to false)
Version 1.6.1 (March 16, 2013)
- updated all files with new URL
Version 1.6.0 (March 3, 2013)
- new feature: format-agnostic tag whitelisting and blacklisting (tagWhitelist='' and tagBlacklist='' in caudecrc)
- new -P DIR parameter: set and create output directory, and mirror the source file's path components (e.g. 'a/b/file.flac' => 'DIR/a/b/file.ogg')
- added CBR (constant) and ABR (average) bitrate modes and parameters (-b/-B) for LAME, Ogg Vorbis, Nero AAC, qaac
- -H parameter can now be used as a standalone action, without transcoding (computes and tags specified hashes)
- added -q iTunes preset for -c qaac (CVBR, ~256 kbps)
- added -r sacd/dvda/bluray/pono resampling presets; -r now accepts values in kHz as well
- added maxInputFiles configuration parameter: raise a warning and abort when the number of input files is greater than that value (defaults to 100)
- added setCompilationFlagWithAlbumArtist configuration parameter, for setting the iTunes Compilation flag when ALBUMARTIST is used (defaults to false, but always true when ALBUMARTIST="Various Artists", regardless of that parameter)
- added keepWavMetadata configuration parameter, for keeping WAV metadata with FLAC and WavPack (defaults to false)
- added hashes configuration parameter; listed hashes will systematically be computed and tagged (e.g. for traceability)
- sanitize caudecrc input
- updated eyeD3 parameters (version 0.7 breaks compatibility with version 0.6)
- bugfix: all compression presets allowed with -q are now allowed in caudecrc
- bugfix: don't mix up tags when encoding to both lossless and lossy codecs
- bugfix: do tag hash metadata when requested, even when the rest of the metadata is ignored (-C)
- bugfix: compute and tag appropriate hash metadata for lossyFLAC, lossyWV and lossyTAK
- various fixes
Version 1.5.3 (December 23, 2012)
- added support for qaac (TVBR and CBR modes)
- removed support for winaac (neroAacEnc.exe with Wine)
- bugfix: preserve lossless tags accordingly when encoding to both lossless and lossy codecs (example: caudec -c flac -c vorbis *.wv)
- added option to apply gain after decoding and before encoding (for players that don't support Replaygain)
- moved preloadSources configuration parameter to caudecrc (see Performance)
- added preventClipping configuration parameter, used when resampling or applying gain, defaults to true
- clean up after other instances that terminated uncleanly
- clean up upon SIGTERM, SIGABRT and SIGPIPE in addition to SIGINT
Version 1.5.2 (September 30, 2012)
- removed deprecated opus encoding profiles (music and speech)
- added CBR encoding with LAME (e.g. caudec -c mp3 -b 192)
- added SoundCheck support (MP3, AAC and ALAC - code adapted from rg2sc by Richard van den Berg)
Version 1.5.1 (August 7, 2012)
- fixed file caching locking mechanism
- report actual read speed
Version 1.5.0 (July 30, 2012)
- Replaygain scanner (except for Opus and Musepack)
- preservation of embedded artwork from FLAC and ALAC, to FLAC, ALAC, AAC and MP3
- new -C switch disables metadata preservation
- report both read and write speeds
- better estimation of ramdisk space requirements with APE input files
- various fixes
Version 1.4.3 (July 10, 2012)
- support for ALAC encoding with ffmpeg
- try $TMPDIR and /tmp when ramdisk is too small
- output error messages from external tools when CAUDECDEBUG=true
- bugfix: use .wvc correction files when decoding WavPack Hybrid
- bugfix for ALAC files with multi-line comments
- more precise estimation of WavPack ramdisk space requirements
Version 1.4.2 (July 3, 2012)
- support for Opus (with both music and speech profiles)
- bugfix for non-english locales that don't use '.' as a decimal separator
- new -O switch: automatically create output directory
- copy non-standard metadata fields over to MP3 in TXXX frames
- maxInstances from /etc/caudecrc takes precedence over ~/.caudecrc
- precise evaluation of ramdisk space requirements with TAK input files
Version 1.4.1 (June 27, 2012)
- fixed bug that made other instances stall when aborting one instance
- install.sh: autodetect path of current caudec installation
Version 1.4.0 (June 27, 2012)
- now runs on OS Ⅹ (tested on OS Ⅹ Lion)
- smart handling of concurrent instances
- better detection of ramdisks
- don't abort if no ramdisk is available
- support for e/m TAK compression parameters
- removed reckless option to disable checking of available space
- fixed long standing bugs in the installation script
- fixed regression with empty APEv2 tags
- better handling of ALAC metadata
- changed handling of user interruption (Ctrl+C), removed pgrep dependency
- lots of minor fixes
Older versions
- 1.3.7: support for WavPack Lossy bitrates in bits per sample / support for TOTALTRACKS and TOTALDISCS vorbis comment fields / bugfix for multi-line tags / temporary workaround for NULL separated lists in APEv2 tags
- 1.3.6: bugfix for files with the '%' char in their filename and/or tags
- 1.3.5: add support for conductor, subtitle, license, iTunes compilation, disc fields / don't copy replaygain and hash fields to lossy codecs / don't downmix to stereo when resampling
- 1.3.4: add support for Album Artist, save tags with -c winaac
- 1.3.3: add discnumber field (TPOS) in MP3 files, only output debugging information in verbose mode
- 1.3.2: allow decoding and encoding at the same time
- 1.3.1: corrected lossyWAV decoding bug, set lossyTAK compression setting
- 1.3.0: added support for resampling, corrected bug that increased tmpfs usage, improved calculation of required space on tmpfs, added CAUDECDIR environment variable
- 1.2.0: added support for WavPack Lossy
- 1.1.2: added checking for required binaries, silenced external tool outputs
- 1.1.1: removed unnecessary code
- 1.1.0: added support for Musepack encoding
- 1.0.0: initial release