;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*-
changes in Benben v0.7.0 relative to Benben 0.6.2:
* Rewritten in Common Lisp.
* Breaking change: The TCP driver format names have changed.
* Breaking change: Format-specific command line arguments are now prepended
with their name (e.g., --vgm-* for all VGM-related arguments).
* Breaking change: The reverb preset names have changed.
* Breaking change: The resampler names have changed slightly.
* Breaking change: "schroeder" is no longer selectable as a reverb type for
midi playback.
* Breaking change: The PulseAudio and PortAudio drivers have been removed.
You can use the libao or out123 drivers as a substitute for these.
* New: Added the ALSA driver.
* New: Added the out123 driver.
* New: Added the --basedir argument.
* New: A DC offset filter is now available. This can be enabled with the
--dc-filter option, or in the config with the "dc-filter" key. It is
enabled by default. The --no-dc-filter option has also been added.
* New: The --ui argument has been added.
* New: An alternative UI, the "Minimal UI", has been added. This is bare
bones: it just prints information as the tracks change, and you have to
control Benben with the remote-benben program. This UI also works
perfectly in Emacs with Slime ^_^ The Original UI still exists, of
course, and is still the default.
* New: Added the --vgm-strict-gd3-loading command line option.
* New: Support for the Extended QOA Format (XQAF/XQA, .xqa) has been added.
* Enhancement: SoundFont paths are now checked earlier at startup, and
regardless of if MIDI files are being played.
* Enhancement: The remote control socket is now removed properly when
ctrl-c is used.
* Enhancement: VGMs with GD3 tag size mismatches are now more thoroghly
handled.
* Enhancement: ReplayGain, when present in the metadata, is now applied to
WavPack, MPEG-1, Vorbis, XQA, and Opus files as well as FLAC.
* Enhancement: The progress bar will now print 'fading' when the song is
being faded out.
* Enhancement: On platforms that support it, SIMD processing is now performed
to speed up a few sections of code.
* Enhancement: Initial file checking is now done in parallel and is
sometimes much faster.
* Enhancement: Much faster response times to remote-benben requests.
* Enhancement: The internal design has been streamlined, and a lot of
duplicated code has been removed.
* Changed: The default resampling mode is now "linear".
changes in Benben v0.6.2 relative to Benben 0.6.1:
* Fixed: Update Haematite to v0.5.4. This adds a workaround for handling of
SoundFonts that have unusual loop points for samples (e.g. the end
position comes before the start position).
* Fixed: The display of WavPack average bitrates is now correct (it was
showing bits, not kbits).
* Enhancement: the output directory that gets created when rendering will
now be created with mode 0700.
changes in Benben v0.6.1 relative to Benben 0.6.0:
* Fix a potential hang when resampling and playing a FLAC file.
* Fix truncated FLAC files causing a crash.
* Better debug output.
* Minimum buffer size has been reduced to 256, and is also the new default.
changes in Benben v0.6.0 relative to Benben 0.5.0:
* YunoSynth updated:
** YM2413/VRC7 added
* New: You can now play Commodore 64 SID files.
* New: Quite OK Audio (QOA) format support added. You can now play
Commodore 64 SID files, including 2SID and 3SID formats. Support for the
HVSC songlength's database is also included.
* New: WavPack format support added, including support for hybrid WavPack
files.
* New: Benben can now render to QOA format.
* New: Benben can now render to WavPack format, including hybrid WavPack
files.
* New: Benben can now be controlled remotely (see --remote).
* New: TCP audio output driver to send audio over a TCP connection.
* New: The --scan-only argument has been added, which tells Benben to scan
files at startup like normal, then exit before playing anything.
* New: You can now type a capital 'P' to toggle repeating the song queue
during playback.
* New: You can now type a capital 'I' to display extended information about
the state of the effects stack and resampler.
* Enhancement: String allocations reduced throughout for lower memory usage.
* Enhancement: You can now specify either a single theme, or an array of
themes, in the config file. When it's an array, a random one out of that
array will be chosen.
* Enhancement: If the terminal is larger than 80x24, the play queue will
expand to fill the empty space (it previously expanded horizontally, but
not vertically).
* Enhancement: Normalization now happens in parallel as jobs are being
rendered. This slightly improves performance.
* Enhancement: The terminal title is now set to the title or filename of the
currently playing song.
* Enhancement: The colors of the bars above and below the banner can now be
themed.
* Enhancement: The current theme can now be reloaded while the program is
running. This should aid in theme development.
* Enhancement: The soft-clipping effect can now have optional oversampling
applied, up to an absurd 65535x (default is just 1x, as before).
* Enhancement: Support for FLACs that are encapsulated in Ogg containers
added.
* Enhancement: Seeking support for Ogg Vorbis and Opus files.
* Enhancement: Faster Ogg demuxing.
* Enhancement: Slightly better memory usage when decoding FLAC files.
* Removed: HTTP/HTTPS support and Gemini support has been removed. These may
be added back in the future, however. This was only supported by VGM files
anyway.
* Fixed (partially): The progress bar when rendering is now slightly more
accurate. The inaccuracy would almost never, ever be noticed, however.
* Fixed: The screen now consistently redraws properly when resizing the
window, and when Ctrl-Z/SIGTTSP is used.
* Fixed: Module files would not be resampled correctly if the output rate
was not 44100.
* Fixed: MPEG-1 files that are being resampled no longer cut off early.
* Fixed: PCM files that are being resampled no longer cut off early.
* Fixed: Progress bar positions are now reported correctly for FLAC files
when resampling.
* Fixed: Progress bar positions are now reported correctly for MPEG-1 files
when resampling.
* Fixed: Progress bar positions are now reported correctly for PCM files
when resampling.
* Fixed: Progress bar positions are now reported correctly for module files
when resampling.
* Fixed: A possible crash when resizing the terminal window.
* Fixed: A possible crash/deadlock with the error "Logger not yet started".
changes in Benben 0.5.0 relative to Benben 0.4.1:
* Updated YunoSynth to v0.4.4
* Breaking change: The config file format has changed. You are encouraged
to backup your current config, then let Benben create a fresh one that you
then re-edit.
* New: MP3, MP2, and MP1 support added.
* New: Module file support added via RemiXMP. The interpolation mode can be
changed at runtime with the 'i' key.
* New: FLAC file support added via RemiAudio.
* New: Opus file support added.
* New: Ogg Vorbis file support added.
* New: MIDI file support added.
* New: Playback of WAV and Au files added.
* New: MPEG-1/FLAC/Opus/Ogg/PCM files are resampled using a high quality
resampler based on libsamplerate when their sample rates do not match the
player's output rate.
* New: Song-specific configs can be reloaded at run time with the 'C' key.
* New: theme support. If truecolor ANSI support isn't working, and you know
your terminal supports 24-bit colors, try setting the COLORTERM=truecolor
environment variable before using Benben.
* New: Added the --long-version argument.
* New: More startup animations added.
* New: Seeking support for MP3, MP2, MP1, RIFF WAV, module files, and Au
files added. Support for seeking in other formats will come in the
future.
* New: ReplayGain support for MPEG-1, Vorbis, Opus, and FLAC files.
* New: Added the --shuffle argument.
* Change: The maximum sample rate is now 48KHz.
* New: The code can now be compiled with -Dstrict_multi_assign and
-Dno_number_autocast
* New: A Texinfo manual is now available.
changes in Benben 0.4.1 relative to Benben 0.4.0:
* Updated to YunoSynth v0.4.1.
* Fixed: Building using Crystal v1.5.0 now works again.
* Fixed: Building on Dragonfly BSD now works again.
* Fixed: Disabling certain drivers with the Rakefile now works properly and
disables them in RemiSound as well.
changes in Benben 0.4.0 relative to Benben 0.3.1:
* Updated YunoSynth to v0.4.0:
** NES APU and DMC support
** Famicom Disk System support
** Seta X1-010 support
** Philips SAA1099 support
** Sega PWM (32x) support
** Bandai Wonderswan support
* Enhancement: Added the --normalize command line option for automatic peak
normalization of rendered files.
* Enhancement: Added the --quiet command line option.
* Enhancement: Pressing `S` will now let you toggle a "quit after current
song" option during playback.
* Enhancement: Added the equalizer-disabled-during-rendering config
option. Turning this on will allow you to normally have an EQ enabled
during playback, but also have it automatically disabled when
rendering. This also works in per-song config files.
* Enhancement: CUE files can now be generated when rendering.
* Enhancement: The CPU usage is now shown during playback and rendering.
* Enhancement: You can pass a directory to Benben directly and it will play
all files it finds in that directory.
* Enhancement: Errors that get printed on stderr are now redirected to a
file (e.g. ~/.local/share/benben/stderr.log) by default. This is to
prevent things such as PortAudio or YunoSynth from printing errors to the
screen that can mess up the UI. This can be disabled in the config.
* Fixed: JSPF playlist loading works again.
* Fixed: You can now go to the next/previous song, or quit, while a song is
fading out.
* Fixed: The EQ setting now properly "sticks" between songs when it's
toggled during playback.
changes in Benben 0.3.1 relative to Benben 0.3.0:
* Updated RemiAudio to a newer commit. This should fix a very subtle EQ
bug (probably inaudible to most people).
* Enhancement: The post-gain option in the equalizer section of the config
file can be used to set a post-EQ adjustment gain. This value is in
decibels.
* Fixed: the default EQ bands were being processed even when they did
were supposed to be overridden.
* Fixed: The 'rounded' banner can now be correctly selected with the
BENBEN_BANNER environment variable.
* Enhancement: Removed a few unused class fields to save a few bytes of memory.
* Fixed: Fix a potential bug in the UI regarding the loops. This would only
have been visible for one frame.
* Small cleanups.
changes in Benben 0.3.0 relative to Benben 0.2.0:
* Update YunoSynth to v0.3.0:
** Y8950 support
** YM3526 support
* Enhancement: libao is now supported as an audio backend.
* Enhancement: Entirely new UI based on S-Lang. It closely resembles the
old UI, but is faster, less prone to glitching, and has a few extra
features.
* Enhancement: Playback now takes advantage of multiple cores.
* Enhancement: The audio buffer size can now be adjusted.
* "Enhancement": Benben will now ensure the Crystal runtime spawns enough
worker threads.
* Enhancement: When a channel clips, even if it's just for one sample, it
will now be shown on the VU meter by highlighting the channel name in
red.
* Deprecation: The refresh-rate config option is now deprecated and ignored.
* Fixed: Changing the volume now properly carries over between tracks.
changes in Benben 0.2.0 relative to Benben 0.1.0:
* Update YunoSynth to v0.2.0:
** BZip2 compressed VGMs
** YM2612 support
** SN764xx support
** YM3812 support
** YMF262 support
** RF5C164 support
** VSU-VUE support
** ES5503 support
** Fixed an infinite loop in the uPD7759
** The Nuked core for the YM2151 now works (MAME is still the default)
* Updated RemiAudio to v0.3.1:
** Optimization: Improved rendering speed and resource usage.
* Added: The --chip-info command line argument will display a list of all
supported chips.
* Added: The output path when rendering can now contain optional template
strings, which will be filled out with GD3 tag information.
* Added: The display of the GD3 tag information can now be set to
"toggle_prefer_english" or "toggle_prefer_japanese" in the config file.
When this is set, then the tag information starts with the preferred
language, then toggles between them every 15 seconds during playback.
* Added: More banners.
* Added: The time it takes to fade out can now be set in the config file.
* Improvement: The fade out calculations have been improved.
* Improvement: The song-specific config files are now checked in
alphabetical order.
* Improvement: Display the overall average samples per second after
rendering.
* Added: The --overwrite parameter is now required to overwrite existing
files when rendering.
* Removed: The --yes parameter has been removed (it did nothing).
* Fixed: Too many jobs were being launched when rendering.
* Fixed: The progress bar display was showing incorrect information when
rendering.
* Fixed: The annotation in Au files was incorrect.
* Fixed: File paths in XSPF files are now decoded properly.
* Breaking change: Song-specific config files can no longer contain these
fields, all of which were previously unused and erroneously included:
** reverb-type
** mverb-reverb-preset
** zita-reverb-preset