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Aqualung 0.9beta7 released
The authors are proud to announce the release of Aqualung 0.9beta7. Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at GNU/Linux, today also running on other operating systems such as FreeBSD and MS Windows. We are striving to create one of the finest music players available, with respect to sound quality, stability, features and ease of use. This release is the latest in a series of beta releases on our way to the future stable release of Aqualung 1.0. It adds significant new functionality as well as important bugfixes. The ChangeLog for this release is listed below. Homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net Enjoy, Tom 2007-02-05 Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net> * Aqualung 0.9beta7 http://aqualung.sf.net This release introduces important new features and bugfixes. Main reasons for upgrading: * CD Audio support, complete with CDDB, CD-Text, etc. You can play Audio CDs directly, or rip them to WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis or MP3 (CBR/VBR, gapless via LAME) complete with tagging, on the fly. * Revamped Music Store Builder: better operation, greater flexibility. * Support FFmpeg library enabling the recognition of numerous formats e.g. AC3, AAC, WMA, WavPack, and the soundtrack of many video files. * Replaygain support for APEv2 tags. * Ability to set looping range when looping a single file. Should be useful for people playing along a recording, trying to learn phrases of a song. * Adding music to the playlist is now a non-blocking, interruptible background operation. * Drag-and-drop files from external sources (Nautilus, Konqueror, etc) into the Aqualung playlist. * Several critical memory leak fixes. * Numerous GUI refinements; fixed some rare bugs in engine, too. * Support for building against the new FLAC 1.1.3 API. * Aqualung operates correctly on bigendian systems (32 and 64 bit). * Running natively on MS Windows. A port of TAP-plugins is included in the installer. See http://aqualung.sf.net/win32 for more. NEW LIBRARY DEPENDENCIES: All of these are optional; Aqualung will build without them, disabling the functionality they provide. * libcdio >= 0.76 is required for CD audio support. http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/ * libvorbisenc for ripping into Ogg Vorbis. http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ * libmp3lame for ripping into MP3. http://lame.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ linux-audio-announce mailing list linux-audio-announce@music.columbia.edu http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-an... (Log in to post comments)
Amusing priorities Posted Feb 8, 2007 21:43 UTC (Thu) by vmole (subscriber, #111) [Link] I've never used Aqualung, but I found this bit, taken from the front page of the website, amusing: [many existing players] are completely unusable to the serious listener because they fail to provide one humble feature: the ability to play back a list of consecutive audio files without terrible gaps in between tracks. (Although XMMS does have a plugin called xmms-crossfade which mitigates this problem.) Maybe I'm weird, but this seems excessive: "completely unusable"? Yeah, it's slighly annoying for the small percentage of albums (more in classical) that don't break between tracks, but the reality is that the vast majority of albums are issued with gaps between tracks. Quite often those gaps are longer than what you'd experience with, say, XMMS. Maybe we need a "gap extender" plugin? I also wonder if there are really any "serious listeners" who would actually prefer a crossfade over a slight gap, as the author implies. Note that I'm not arguing against gapless playback (although I can't think of a concert I've been to (classical, jazz, or rock) that didn't have small pauses between movements/songs). It just seems an odd conceit around which to build an entire new player. Why not just fix one of the existing players?
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