Version History
Version 1.0d46: Not Released Yet
- on startup the logs now reflect how each QuickTime component is being used (import, export, imp/exp, none)
- if you got errors "getting length of track" i now revert to what i was able to glean from the table of contents, rather than failing
- whupps! Lite users were prevented from using the "Encoder Presets" for ripping, this has been fixed!
- d45r3 Dec 4, 2006
- songs who's unpacked audio data vs. cdg data had radically differing lengths could cause the "playhead" diamond to go all wonky, this has been fixed.
- in the "switchable albums" popup, that number that shows up in parentheses, no longer says "255" when it should say "0".
- wrote the "auto cue" code, that seeks the playhead to the first non-silent sample yeah!
- don't crash if you're running iTunes at the same time (there may be other cases not caught yet)
- disc meta info getter a bit more reliable in finding info
- when you're paused, and you then hit stop, it doesn't play a teeny bit more audio first
- when you've got "auto full screen" pref set to ON, and you manually turn off full screen mode, then you stop the song, it doesn't go back to full screen mode
- made the "cue" button, hooked it up, i hope it does what you want
- d45r4 Dec 7 2006
- no longer attempting to deactivate fonts that never got activated (error in log file when quitting)
- no longer nagging the user to install LAME if they don't have it, sorry that was annoying!
- okay all those global variables in the CDG Decoder were so annoying, and prevented me from having multiple independent streams, so i went ahead and cleaned it up. i'm now set up for video mixing (at least behind the scenes, it'll be a while before i implement that)
- you can now export multiple quicktimes simultaneously
- you can now export quicktime(s) while playing songs (even the same song)
- the little "show artwork" button in the lower left now actually works. When you're playing a song, you can click it to get a copy of the video window shown right in the browser window. (eventually it'll allow a singer to take a webcam pic of herself too!)
- i said i fixed that bug where QuickTime exports 1 white frame at the end of your movie. Now i really *really* fixed it. I swear.
- fixed a hang in the auto cue function, it would just freeze the program permanently if it couldn't find a sample within the song. now it just does nothing.
- turned up the sensitivity of the auto cue function by 2 orders of magnitude. If you find it's too sensitive tell me and i'll just add a pref.
- d45r5
- quicktime files now works in the "Artwork" panel in the browser window
- the text overlays (like "Playing <song name>" that you see in the video window now function even on quicktime files
- you can resize the "Artwork" panel, and you can now resize the sources pane
- something i've wanted to do for a long time, the "message" text in the video window now "fades out" instead of blinks off
- d45r6
- fixed the burner plugin installer to put it in the right place, duh
- fixed the japanese version, again.
- Holy Crashing QuickTime Batman! There was a bug preventing ripping using QuickTime encoders (ie: anyting not Ogg Vorbis or LAME MP3). Well hot dam! Fixed that bugger!
- Added ⌘-M for Mute (okay this is busted, must use ⌘⌥-M)
- d45r7 Dec 22 2006
- rewrote the video subsystem to use CoreGraphics instead of QuickDraw. Guess what? QuickDraw still wins. Only when Quartz 2D Extreme is enabled do I get a win in performance. The only alternative right now is to use OpenGL. Or wait for 10.5? Or keep using QuickDraw?
- Fixed more places where, if there was a percent sign in the name of a song ("99% Sure", "100% Pure Love" etc), it would give garbage characters in the display of the song name sometimes
- when showing a text blurb at the bottom of the video window, if it doesn't fit on the screen, now it scrolls
- when the current song is 95% finished, it now says (optionally what singer and) what song is up next.
- d45r8 Dec 30 2006
- fark fark fark fark
- fixed some bugs, like i don't have anything to do today
- d45r9 Dec 31 2006 Lite Pro
- on system 10.3.9, fixed the crash after "About…" or when quitting or when exporting quicktime
- fixed the crash after playing a song
- d45r10 Jan 4 2007 Lite Pro
- the word "next" got disappeared from the messenger text when a song started playing
- if you changed the tempo of a QuickTime song while it was paused, it would start the video playing again, no audio, and the program would think it was still paused, so un-pausing would only un-pause the audio, and now the audio and video are out of sync.
- got rid of the last of the global variables for a song, these were related to graphics tempo timers. Were another step closer to the full on video mixer board (now each song has an independent tempo and many can be played simultaneously)
- when you adjusted the tempo, it only said "95%" or whatever, now it says "Tempo: 95%"
- if you changed tempo while paused, the messenger text would stay on screen, rather than fade away
- closing the video window no longer makes it disappear forever (bring it back via the Window menu)
- the browser window controls no longer jump around the screen erratically.
- auto cue was busted when volume was set too low. (still busted for pitch bent or tempo shifted)
- d45r11 Jan 6 2007 Lite Pro
- added support for .BIN file format (uncompressed interleaved raw binary, comes from Windows programs, as in "bin/cue"
- fixed potential crasher when stopping a song (timer related)
- fixed yet another potential crasher when stopping a song
- okay after a month of procrastination, i've finally started to write the "arbitrary custom meta data per song / singer / playlist" thing, which comes before the whole "arbitrary custom columns" thing
- d45r12 Jan 8 2007 Lite Pro
- i broke the timer for the graphics and it was lagging behind, worse and worse as the song progressed!!
- d45r13 Jan 9 2007 Lite Pro
- made the Switchable Albums popup a bit more robust, maybe you won't crash on that as much?
- fixed the crash in the "get click activation" handler for the browser window
- you can finally click the stop signs in the Tasks window even if the application was in the background
- switched from using "NewMovieFromDataRef" to the newer "NewMovieFromProperties", what this means for you is, umm, err, not really much right now. But now i can use Core Graphics Visual Contexts, which is A Good Thing™! (actually, this will help me get much better frame rates for movies and works into the VideoMixer much nicerly)
- d45r15 Jan 11 2007 Lite Pro
What My Plan Is
- fully customizable columns & instant sorting (this necessarily includes arbitrary custom meta data per song and is going to be a major database change)
- Ability to play ALL quicktime types, even those that "can't be moved / extracted on a background thread"
- ability to burn (pitch bent) audio portion of non-CDG songs (aif, mov, midi, kar etc)
- iTunes integration
- ID3 Tagging Support (Wow then we can go Alpha!!)
Pokers In the Fire
- "smooth as glass" quicktime playback, using QTKit
- auto update the Map whenever someone makes a purchase (parse purchase info, geocode for lat/lon, add to address book, update map data, upload map data). Update: I have written a nice applescript that can parse my email and extract a new address book entry, including geocoded lat/lon info. Neat!
- auto-publish when I build a new version and invoke a script (export new vers.html file, zip lite and pro, upload lite and pro, upload vers file). Update: I now have all the parts I need for the workflow, just have to sew it all together now
Bugs I'm aware of that will be fixed
- the album popup may crash under certain situations
To Do
done: write Zip function so after you rip MP3+G they'll get zipped up together, with a canonical name, enable Zip after rip in the prefs pane- When editing meta info on Zipped files: unzip files, set ID3 tags, then zip them up again, but leave a copy unzipped so you can get them easily again.
- During import of pre-existing MP3's, scan ID3 tags. Also, write a one-shot utility to both scan for bad zips and also read ID3's from valid zips, and re-canonicalize the names. Move bad zips to a new folder.
- finish CDPedia support
100% done: ability to cue a song to the first non-silent sample, so un-pausing means instant-on- 80% done: ability to cue two songs for cross fade (same as: ability to export QuickTime (or iPod) at the same time as playing some other song)
- Allow a 'placeholder' track to be input into a singer's "Tonight" list, that includes the disc name and track number, and when it comes up, the dialog comes up, says "stick in the disc", to let it play direct from disc, automatically picking the right track. Alternately, allow KJ to drag a track from a CD into a playlist. then, eject disc. when that song is coming up next, put up a dialog that says "please stick that disc back in" and it'll go play it from disc, Alternately, rip the song when it gets drug from the CD into the singer's "Tonight"