1.0.00 finally out

I meant to create a Release Candidate but I was too busy with something else, so I'm just doing the final 1.0.00.

Very little has changed since 0.99.06.044, mostly wording to reflect that the program is no longer in beta, as no bugs have been reported in a long while (well, except for a crash that I was notified about by mail, but there was no follow-up.)

One small change since 0.99.06.044 is that you can now copy to the clipboard images from ID3V2 tags. This is done by pressing CTRL+C when viewing full-size images in the tag editor or in "Tag details" in the main window. This feature isn't perfect. For some reason in Windows 7 Paint works OK, but GIMP fails to paste the images. I'll investigate some more if anybody cares about this.

In case Linux users accessing the repositories at openSUSE Build Service missed it last time, I'll say it again: the repositories have changed. The old ones no longer have up-to-date builds, so please go to the main download page and see where the new repositories are located. Note that you might have to uninstall the program first, as some distributions / versions only allow upgrades from the repository that was used to install a package initially.

Note for packagers: MP3 Diags has a feature that detects when new versions are available at SourceForge. You may remove this feature by uncommenting the line #DEFINES += DISABLE_CHECK_FOR_UPDATES at the end of src/src.pro

New repositories

As several major Linux distributions release new versions this fall, I had to figure out what to do to support them. The solution was to make packages more generic, so they could be used on several versions of a distribution. As a result, instead of the "Ubuntu 8.10", "Ubuntu 9.04", and "Debian 5.0" repositories that were used before, there is now a single "Ubuntu" repository that takes care of all of them, and I expect it to work with Ubuntu 9.10 as well. Similar things happened for the other distributions and things are OK according to my tests; e.g. 1-Click Install on openSUSE seems to be working OK. If you notice that something doesn't work, though, please let me know about it.

Currently both the old repositories and the new ones contain version 0.99.06.044, but the plan is to switch to the new repositories starting with the next version. The download page is already changed to point to the new repositories.

Switching to the new repository might cause the MP3 files to be rescanned, due to a different serialization library. (There will just be an error message and when you press OK the rescan starts.)

Note for packagers: if you are using the debian.rules or MP3Diags.spec that I provide, you may want to patch them, to remove the STATIC_SER parameter that is passed to AdjustMt.sh, thus linking Boost Serialization dynamically. (Currently these files haven't been changed in the source tarball, though, but the Subversion repository has been updated.)

Playing with the link options

It turns out that static linking is trickier than I thought: either the mt.a library doesn't exist although the non-mt is there, or it's in a different package. On top of that, although with Boost 1.33 the size of the binary increases by less than 2%, the increase nears 10% for 1.37.

So I'm reverting to dynamic linking by default. I'll change AdjustMt.sh to better figure out what's available, but that's in the future. For now, I replaced the source archives with ones that do dynamic linking, so the build can proceed as before for those who build from source.

Those who use binaries shouldn't be affected. Whatever was built is OK (Windows, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 11, Debian 5) and I'll fix the openSUSE 11.1 builds, which failed.

More generic packages in 0.99.06.044

Starting with 0.99.06.044 the .deb and .rpm files are supposed to be more generic, so they can be shared among versions and / or distributions. There are some issues, though. As I write this, the Fedora 11 build failed, but I think I'll be able to fix it. Debian succeeded, so I expect Ubuntu to be fine as well. I'll post an update after I reach some conclusion. (The Windows version and the generic Linux binaries are already available, as they are not affected by this.)

Other changes:

As I was trying to check something, the folder filter caused a crash. It turns out it's an old bug. Since nobody reported this before, I guess this filter isn't used much. Well, I fixed it.

Another fix concerns a bug that caused some files to appear normalized even when they weren't. This led me to look more closely at how TXXX and text frames were handled and I noticed several issues, which I fixed (hopefully without introducing others.)

Finally, starting with this version, files with .Mp3 or .mP3 extensions are processed. (Until now there was a case-sensitive test, causing only files whose names ended with .mp3 or .MP3 to be processed.)