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Summary of changes between libmikmod 3.1.5 and libmikmod 3.1.6 (Romegier):
==========================================================================
libmikmod 3.1.6 was released on 03/24/1999.
BUGFIXES
- When the library was built thread-safe, calls to Player_SetPosition
resulted in a deadlock.
- The OSS driver was too strict and didn't allow OSS to select a different
playback frequency.
- A volume bug has been removed from the module player (thanks to Thomas
Neumann for the report).
NEW FEATURES
- Volume ramping has been ported from the high quality mixer to the regular
mixer, and is enabled when interpolated mixing is requested. You should hear
less clicks in interpolated mode from now ! (Suggested by Bjornar Henden)
- The UNI loader recognizes APlayer format 1.3 modules.
PLATFORM SPECIFIC
- The NetBSD and OpenBSD driver should work with recent NetBSD and OpenBSD
versions.
- Some Windows code has been merged. Feedback will be appreciated. Note that,
as I don't have a windows development system (and no plan to have one in the
near future), I can't test or debug the Windows part myself.
Summary of changes between libmikmod 3.1.2 and libmikmod 3.1.5 (Pradelles):
===========================================================================
libmikmod 3.1.5 was released on 03/01/1999.
THANKS
- Many thanks to Lutz Roeder and Uwe Thoma, who send me the description of
the Imago Orpheus file format (IMF), as well as some of Imago's code, which
made the creation of the IMF loader a pure C exercise (-:
- Many thanks to Claudio Matsuoka, Tobias Gloth, C. Ray C. and Ben Collver for
their contributions and bug reports.
- Also big thanks to Jan Havelka for his help in tracking and fixing bugs.
- I almost forgot to thank Cedric Hebert for pointing out the gcc 2.x
optimization options bug !
- And as a last-minute add-on, Kev Vance submitted a GDM loader.
BUGFIXES
- The OSS driver used much more memory than necessary without reason.
- Samples longer than 1 Mb were not played correctly. However, the fix now
requires that your C compiler provides a 64 bit integer type. As a result,
libmikmod will not compile anymore on AIX with old versions of xlC.
- Samples with ping pong loops could make the library segfault on some rare
conditions. This bug was also present in MikIT and in the module plugin
of winamp, which are also based on old MikMod 3 sources...
- The sample loaders will now load samples with extra information blocks in
them, and has been made more robust.
- More checks to detect empty song messages.
- The song message loading routine was bugged and could make the library
coredump.
- AMF modules in formats 1.0, 1.2 and 1.3 couldn't be loaded.
- MED loader now loads instrument names and song message if they exist.
- More check have been added to the 15 instrument MOD loader to prevent it
from hanging on non-mod files ; let me know if you still experience
problems with it.
- STM loader rejected STM created by MOD2STM ; the last pattern was never
played ; also, in some STM modules the samples were not loaded correctly.
- XM modules in format 1.02 couldn't be loaded.
- Envelope sustain loops in XM modules were not processed correctly.
- Porta to note using the command memory used sometimes an incorrect value
when playing AMF, IT, S3M and ULT modules.
- Volume slides for IT (Dxx) and XM (Axx) modules didn't continue in the
background.
- Porta down effect in the volume column of IT modules was not played
correctly.
- Problems occuring when compiling libmikmod when an older version of libmikmod
is installed are now fixed.
DOCUMENTATION FIXES
- The documentation incorrectly referred to PAN_MIDDLE instead of PAN_CENTER.
NEW FEATURES
- On platforms that support POSIX.4 threads, the library is now thread-safe.
- Depending on your system's capabilities, ALSA and EsounD driver can now
be dynamically loaded when a libmikmod application is run, so if you built
your binary with the shared ALSA or EsounD libraries (which is the default),
it will run on other systems lacking those libraries.
- New loaders for GDM (General Digital Music), IMF (Imago Orpheus) and STX
(STMIK 0.2) modules.
- UNI loader is back, for those who need to play the `Acid Tetris' songs.
- S3M loader correctly identifies S3M modules created by Impulse Tracker
an Imago Orpheus.
- IT effect T (slide tempo) is now implemented.
- The driver for the Linux Ultrasound project (the ancestor of ALSA) is back,
too.
- The selection of the standard or high-quality software mixer is now made at
runtime.
- New interfaces Voice_Get{Frequency,Panning,Volume} and
Player_GetChannelPeriod (this one is for x11amp's MikMod plugin).
- Due to the addition of the new driver and loaders, library version has
increased.
PLATFORM SPECIFIC
- Compiling with gcc 2.x under Linux on x86 platforms performed aggressive
optimizations which had nasty interferences with the channel volumes on
some modules. Hopefully this is now fixed, so gcc users will get the same
sound quality as egcs users.
I apologize to everyone told me of this volume problem for the time it took
me to figure out where it came from.
Previous versions of libmikmod were bundled with the MikMod player ; refer to
its "NEWS" file for older changes information.
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