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• 11/26/2007 - V0.3.14 released

  Changes:

  • Improved software mixer. The volume is now applied just before sending the data to the output plugin, resulting in faster reaction to user input.
  • Fixed automatic and end-of-playlist songchange with audacious.
  • Fixed playback of internet radio streams.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.14.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 11/21/2007 - V0.3.13 released

  Changes:

  • Added support for Audacious 1.4.2 and later.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.13.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 11/20/2007 - Audacious 1.4.2 compatibility

  As many users have mailed me, XMMS-crossfade does not work with recent versions of Audacious. This will be fixed soon, which has been made possible by a little change the Audacious guys made to their ABI. Thanks, and expect a new release of XMMS-crossfade soon.

• 03/04/2007 - V0.3.12 released

  Changes:

  • Added support for Audacious 1.3.0. There were some changes in this version that broke compatibility with XMMS-crossfade.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.12.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 07/14/2006 - V0.3.11 released

  Changes:

  • Fixed songchange detection. This caused the end of some songs to be chopped of on a normal songchange. Also, re-enabled the songchange timeout settings in the configuration dialog to allow manual tuning.
  • Small fixes in the GTK2 GUI (for Audacious). Also, Audacious' headless mode is working, too. XMMS-crossfade should now work fine with the current release 1.1.0 of Audacious.
  • Added more sample rates to the drop-down box in the configuration dialog.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.11.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 04/12/2005 - V0.3.10 released

  Changes:

  • Fixed a bug that could cause a segfault when opening XMMS-crossfade's configuration dialog.
  • Fixed configure script detection of the Beep Media Player. It was only looking for 'beep-config', which does not exist on some distros. 'pkg-config bmp' is now being checked as well.
  • Fixed more compilation problems with gcc-4, finally working now.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.10.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 30/11/2005 - V0.3.9 released

  Changes:

  • Added support for the Beep Media Player and Audacious players.
  • Fixed compilation problems with gcc-4.
  • Added patches for supported players.
    These patches provide hooks for XMMS-crossfade, which are used for querying information about the current state of XMMS. With this information, it is possible to provide a more reliable songchange detection, which should fix broken crossfades when playing songs from slow media. This should also fix the SEGFAULT-on-exit bug that many users have been encountering.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.9.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 17/11/2005 - New maintainer for the Debian package

  Maintainership of the Debian package for XMMS-crossfade has been taken over by Florian Ernst. At this point, I would like to thank the old maintainer, Martin Waitz, for his work.

• 08/03/2004 - New homepage

  I am moving to another domain. The homepage for XMMS-crossfade is now located at http://www.eisenlohr.org/xmms-crossfade/.

  Also, my E-Mail-Adress changed to peter@eisenlohr.org. The old one, p.eisenlohr@gmx.net, will remain active for some time, though.

• 01/29/2004 - XMMS V1.2.9 released

  This time, no new version of crossfade is available, but rather a new version of XMMS itself. It includes a set of bugfixes to the ALSA output plugin that improve cooperation with XMMS-crossfade:

  • The bug that XMMS sometimes would not start playback when mmap-Mode was enabled in the ALSA output plugin has been fixed. (bug #1577)
  • The segfault when exitting during playback has been fixed. (bug #1572)
  • Somtimes, after a few hours of playback, XMMS + crossfade could become slow and hog a lot of memory when using the ALSA output plugin. This has been fixed as well. (bug #1571)

  Many thanks to Håvard Kvålen for the bugfixes.

• 10/08/2003 - V0.3.4 released

  Changes:

  • Fixed a bug in the bultin OSS driver which could cause a complete stop of playback under heavy system load.
  • When XMMS is closed while a songs is being played, the fadeout-on-stop crossfade is applied before quitting. Before, XMMS-crossfade just closed the output device, which could result in nasty clicks.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.4.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 10/06/2003 - V0.3.3 released

  Changes:

  • Fixed a bug in the mixer code. The 'Use alternate device' option was ignored.
  • Fixed a bug in the new pausing code which could cause distortions when using different times for fadeout/in.
  • The trailing gap killer is now disabled when the last song of the playlist is being played.
  • Small qualitiy improvement to the gap killer. It will now skip to the next zero crossing to further avoid clicks on songchanges.
  • Added an option to disable automatic crossfading when making a transition to the same file.
  • Updated to more recent versions of autoconf/automake.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.3.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 07/22/2003 - Fedora packages available

  There is now available an alternate set of RedHat Linux RPM packages:

  "Fedora is a community project dedicated to building high-quality, 3rd party rpms, for the RedHat Linux distribution. Our goal is to facilitate easy package installation through automatic update methods such as apt and yum, while at the same time maintaining first rate security procedures."

  Download links are not available since you are supposed to use the 'apt' our 'yum' tools to get your packages.

  To learn more about the Fedora project, visit their homepage: http://www.fedora.us/

• 04/22/2003 - V0.3.2 released

  Changes:

  • Bugfixes (fade on pause, PPC endianess problem)
  • Compiler warning fixes

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.2.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 03/12/2003 - V0.3.1 released

  Changes:

  • Fade out / Fade in on pause
  • Bugfixes

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.1.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 03/10/2003 - V0.3.0 (unstable)

  Finally, there is a new version available. Unfortunatelly, it does not contain tons of new features as you might expect after more than 18 months since the last version. Nevertheless, I have been receiving feedback about XMMS-crossfade in the past year, and as a result some bugs where fixed and a few small features have been added.

  Changes (in no particular order):

  • Better songchange detection.
  • Software mixer
  • Custom OSS buffer size
  • Ability to keep the device opened even when no song is playing
  • Lots of bugfixes

  There's still a ton of things to add, and hopefully I will find some time to implement them as well. On the wishlist are, among other things: Dynamic crossfading, better resampling quality, custom resampling rates and presets.

  As always, please do send me mail and tell me if how the new version works for you.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.3.0.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 12/18/2001 - Re World / Download links updated

  Sorry for the lack of updates in the last 6 Months. Unfortunatelly I did not have much time to work on XMMS-crossfade. Still, I am planning to release a new version soon with a few new features: Real volume normalization (probably using precalculated RMS values) and presets for the crossfading configuration.

  The download section has been updated.

• 06/07/2001 - V0.2.9 released

  Changes:

  • Fixed the pre-mixing effect plugin handling. In version 0.2.8, the effect was only applied after pressing OK or Apply in the configuration dialog, but not after restarting XMMS. :(
  • Added more verbose error messages when one of 'xmms-config', GLIB or GTK can not be found.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.2.9.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 05/12/2001 - V0.2.8 released

  Changes:

  • Fixed a bug which could cause very ugly feedback when using the silence-after-fadeout crossfader feature. This does only happen when you have activated an effect plugin in XMMS.
  • Fixed a small configure script error.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.2.8.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 04/20/2001 - V0.2.7 released

  Changes:

  • Lots of minor bugfixes.
  • Added an option to increase the device buffer size used by the builtin OSS driver. This may help avoiding buffer underruns during playback.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.2.7.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 03/24/2001 - V0.2.6 released

  Changes:

  • Added support for crossfading when seeking.
  • Added support for selecting a second effect plugin. In contrast to the effect plugin you can select in XMMS' configuration dialog, this plugin will be applied before mixing. This is usefull for example when using the volume normalizing plugin together with the icecast plugin.
  • Added tooltip help to most of XMMS-crossfade's configuration dialog.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.2.6.tar.gz (README / ChangeLog)

• 03/14/2001 - V0.2.5 released

  Changes:

  • Fixes the 'Limit OP buffer usage' bug, as well as another, tiny bug. See the ChangeLog for details.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.2.5.tar.gz

• 03/13/2001 - Problems with the new 'Limit OP buffer usage' option

  There is a bug in the new 'Limit OP buffer usage' option, which can lead to no sound playing at all or gaps/jumps in the output. Please turn this option off for now!

  A fixed release will be available soon. There is a preliminary patch available, which should fix the bug. You can help me by trying this patch and doing some playing around with the 'Limit OP buffer usage' option. Please report your findings to me.

  Sorry for the inconvenience.

• 03/12/2001 - V0.2.4 released

  Changes:

  • Added the option to fade in/out at the beginning/end of playback.
  • Added optimizations for latency and quality. The new fadeout option allows you to avoid the loud knacks some soundcards produce when suddenly being stopped.
  • Bugfixes (inserting pauses, playing small files)

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.2.4.tar.gz For mirrors and binary packages, visit the download section. Please allow for some time until all packages are available.

• 02/13/2001 - LinuxUser article

  I just found an old article in the LinuxUser Magazine (German) on XMMS-crossfade-0.1.1.

• 01/03/2001 - RedHat 7.0 RPMs available

  Get them from ftp.aldil.org. The package reflects the changes made to RedHat 7.0 (glibc, gcc, FHS paths...). Credit goes to Matthias Saou for packaging and hosting.

  Note: This package should also blend fine into the Mandrake 7.2 distribution.

• 01/02/2001 - V0.2.3 released

  Changes:

  • Added automatic album songchange detection. XMMS-crossfade can now detect pre-faded tracks (like on live albums or some compilations) and automatically disable crossfading.
  • Fixed a bug which caused the Leading gap length setting not to be saved.
  • Fixed automatic buffer size calculation.
  • Minor, mostly cosmetic updates of the configuration dialog.
  • Configure script updates.

  Screenshots (now PNG) / README / ChangeLog
  Download: xmms-crossfade-0.2.3.tar.gz

• 12/04/2000 - Debian package available

  Get it here: http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~martin/debian/xmms-crossfade/.
  The package was created and is maintained by Martin Waitz. Thanks a lot dude!

• 12/01/2000 - V0.2.2 released

  Changes:

  • Just some small bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details.

  Get the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.2.2.tar.gz

• 11/24/2000 - V0.2.1 released

  Changes:

  • XMMS-crossfade did not build without OSS. The configure script did not check if OSS was installed, and always tried to compile oss.c.
  • Under some cirumstances, playback could freeze during songchange.
  • A new plugin compatibility option to force close/reopening of the output plugin has been added. This is probably only useful with the disk_writer plugin, which will be allowed to create a separate WAV file for each song.
  • The songchange timeout can now be configured. The internal default value of 500 ms is not appropriate for all environments. You may need a higher timeout value when crossfading MP3s from slow sources (network).
  • Documentation -- There is a section in the README now which describes the configuration dialog in some detail. It is still not complete, but explains some of the more obscure options like 'Throttle Output' or 'Offset'.

  As usual, grab the new version here: xmms-crossfade-0.2.1.tar.gz

• 11/11/2000 - V0.2 finished

  First off, I want to apologize for the lack of updates in the last four months. I have been (and still am) busy with university. Nevertheless, I'm happy to release the new version of xmms-crossfade. It now supports using any existing output plugin (screenshot). Direct access to OSS is still implemented, allthough you can use XMMS' OSS-driver, too. Also, crossfading parameters are configureable in much greater detail than before (screenshot).

  Grab the new version here, or get a RPM package here. Thanx again to Ryan Weaver for packaging.

• 07/07/2000 - GUI Freezing

  Some people experienced a lockup of the XMMS GUI when pressing any of the buttons in xmms-crossfade's configuration dialog. This seems to be a problem with GLIB/GTK+ versions prior to 1.2.7. Upgrading to a recent version of the GIMP Toolkit (1.2.8) should solve the issue.

• 07/04/2000 - RPMs available:

  Get them here. Many thanks to Ryan Weaver for packaging and distributing!

• 06/28/2000 - Bugfix Release V0.1.1:

  Grab the new Version from here. It's not really a v0.2 so I decided to call it v0.1.1 -- its mainly bugfixes, although the frequently requested feature of crossfading on manual songchanges has been added.

  See the README for a more detailed list of the changes.

• Feedback / Preview of V0.2:

  I just yesterday put xmms-crossfade on freshmeat, and I already received several feedback mails. Thanx again. Here are some issues:

  • There seems to be a bug when running xmms-crossfade on SMP machines which occasionally locks up XMMS.
  • WAV's with sample rates other than 11025, 22050, 44100 can not be played. This is due to the very simple (but fast) resampling routines I use. I will add support for arbitrary sample rates in the next version.
  • Also, crossfading when manually selecting another song has been requested. I just didn't include this in the first release because of some problems this caused with the multithreading. But I am confident that I will be able to include it in V0.2.
  • Analyzer / vizualization plugin output is not exactly synchronous. The visual output is always about 500 ms early. This will be fixed.
  • The Effect plugin handling is broken. This bug shows only with plugins using the query_format() callback -- for example the QSound iQ plugin. This will be fixed, too.

  Features which will NOT be included in the next release (but maybe later) are: esd support and fading in/out at the beginning/end of playback.

  Added a Screenshots page.

• Inital Release: V0.1

  NOTE: This is the very first release of XMMS-crossfade. Please report any problems you encounter, especially configure/make problems or (hopefully not) any trouble running the plugin to me at p.eisenlohr@gmx.net. Thank you.