mp3DirectCut Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Martin Pesch VERSION HISTORY 2003-07-10: v1.33 - Title/Artist names are now stored and displayed when editing existing areas (ideal for moving named Cues) - Keeping selection after normalizing - MPEG graph level height adjustable - Optional relative timer to previous edit part (e.g. for reading track positions in Cue sheets) - Autoselection modified (always previous part selected, no longer the nearest) - In rare cases the last cue of a Cue sheet was not loaded, fixed - Like ID3v2 tags also Xing VBR headers will be removed to avoid wrong length informations - Silence detection improved 2003-05-21: v1.32 - Split feature saved too long parts, fixed Thanks Chris and Christian. The bug was caused by enabling cue autoselection while play in 1.31 (*) - Program crashed when calling encoder settings while recording with ACM, fixed - Lame: R3Mix quality supported - Some minor things 2003-05-17: v1.31 - Lame: VBR support implemented - Optional bitrate visualization for VBR - Dynamic cursor: shows correct position on VBR - Silence detection slightly improved - Cues were not autoselected while play, corrected (*) - Display of widest zoom level slightly improved - Shortcut for recording settings (F12) - Audio filenames in Cue sheets created with relative paths if possible - File Info: 'Genre' and 'Track No.' enabled for translation - Several corrections and adaptions 2003-03-16: v1.30 - Language file support implemented - Graph: cut/gain and selection ranges were shown one frame too long (system conditioned), cues covered a whole frame, corrections applied - Return key in Names dialog works now - Split: first file had no title/artist in the name when Cue was at file beginning - Thanks Mark - Split: first file had no title/artist in ID3v1 when Cue was at file beginning - Thanks Marco - Query for reloading Cue sheet after Notepad call - Some other corrections 2003-02-12: v1.29 - Cue sheets: corrected a load error that occured when the INDEX lines ended with blanks - Thanks Johan - Cue sheets: fixed that on some files without an empty line at the end the last cue was not loaded - Thanks Felix - Cue sheets: added option to open sheet in Notepad - MPEG2.5 support added - Help menu: Manual and FAQ should now open under NT/2K/XP - Pause detection: skip after find option added - Split: sync errors now shown only as summary - Split: starting number can be entered - Split: optional ID3v1.1 creation - ID3 Tag: Track field added (v1 -> v1.1) - ID3 Tag: keep v2 grayed while duration tag problem not solved - Project save query: 'Yes' followed by 'Cancel' at the file selection closed the program without saving - fixed - Lots of other modifications 2002-12-08: v1.28 - Auto Cue function for generating multiple Cues - Optional level margin dB meter - Optional record peak beeper 2002-11-12: v1.27 - Optional dB scale added to VU meter - Filename in Window title did not disappear after file closing - Added four modes for prelistening to and from the selection boundaries - Removed "Prelisten begin and end" button - Added "Special" menu with fine shift functions - Modified query on unsaved changes - Play/Rec buttons stay pressed while function in use - Some more keyboard shortcuts (menu shortcuts, single frame moving) 2002-10-14: v1.26 - Wave devices for input and output selectable - Cut list in own "List" menu - Two lines added to recent file list - Some edit functions moved to the "Edit" menu - Fixed: files with large ID3v2 Tags (>50K) did not open - Filename creation pattern now max. 200 instead of 50 chars - Sheet title and artist now saved in project files - Lots of other corrections and modifications 2002-08-10: v1.25 - Tooltips - Title and artist strings editable - Title and artist strings saved in Project files - Cue sheet and Project files appear in recent list - Some keyboard shortcuts for the menus - Miscellaneous improvements 2002-08-01: v1.24 - Main window rewritten (style kept, new interiors) - Thereby: improved keyboard shortcuts (see doc) - Editable fields for position and selection - Fixed a framesize calculation error on MPEG 2 Layer II - Check for illegal chars on split saving - Larger buffer size on recording with Lame - VU meter display improved - Some smaller corrections 2002-07-17: v1.23 - VBR compatibility of the display improved - Cue sheet parser rewritten - Tabbed configuration dialog - Lots of minor improvements 2002-05-11: v1.22 - Cue sheet support improved: program reads titles and artists - Split dialog with filename scheme implemented - Fixed: Pressing the Play button while already recording restarted and erased existing recording - Fixed: Program crashed when loading a Cue sheet with cues >99 minutes - Thanks Robert - ID3 and File info dialog redesigned - "Use ID3v1" enabled if ID3v1 found or user adds, "Keep ID3v2" saved in config - Last cursor position is saved in Project files - Maximum height of big timer limited - Manual in HTML - Embedded manual removed - Some other corrections and adaptions 2002-04-03: v1.21 - Silence detection implemented - Peak level detection on normalize drastically sped up - Negative dB values can bet set on normalize - Info window hang at some large ID3v2 Tags - Lame encoder setting fields renewed - Quality options for Lame and ACM implemented - The maximum number of edit regions is now 200 - Cut/Cue/Gain Edit menue entries limited to 40 - User range of <<< and >>> now 10 - 10000 frames - << and >> now seperately adjustable from 1 to 1000 frames - ID3 Tag is now checked/skipped when appending to file to prevent from creating corrupted files - Entire file will be selected automatically for some functions (append, normalize...) if user didn't select anything - With some formats the selection disappeared when selecting at end of files, should be fixed - Allocated wave buffer size now adjustable in 1K steps - Source can now be replaced via temp file 2002-03-01: v1.20 - Minor map view issue fixed - Cue Sheet used incorrect 1/100 seconds instead of correct 1/75 seconds (CD sector format) - Thanks Bart - Save dialogs remember last saved file now - Thanks Dan - Minor button design changes - Maximize Button enabled (maximized window will not be saved) - Program asks before losing unsaved changes if you wish 2002-01-03: v1.19 - Major graphics issue fixed that could occur in rare cases (mpeg level was not shown) - Thanks Dave - Now four recent files selectable - Option for appending a selection implemented (allows joining files) 2001-12-16: v1.18 - Normalize function implemented - Shift+LMB works now like RMB (in 2nd mouse mode) - Layer 2 graph changed its shape when pressing |< / >| - Thanks Ian - Split saving always had the extension .mp3 2001-11-22: v1.17 - Layer II support implemented (playback only possible with mpglib.dll v0.92 or higher, not with ACM!) - Buffer indicator in the recording screen is bigger now - '/r' command line option added for immediate recording - Program crashed after load errors - Minor corrections, manual updates 2001-10-25: v1.16 - Split file saving implemented - Alternative mouse selection method added (left button = new&drag, right = change nearest) - Added option to show miliseconds - Minimize and restore produced an interesting window full of trash, fixed - Thanks Vlad - Autoselect modified (selects now nearest cut) - Save selection saved longer than selection in some cases 2001-10-13: v1.15 - Cue Sheet support implemented (but simple) - Selection does not hide cuts/gains any more - Selection will now be saved with included cuts, gains and ID3 - Command line and dropped files are checked now for type - Cue setting while recording optimized - Time information added to cuts shown in the Edit menu - The copyright info of frames was not shown - Average bitrate implemented for more exact time informations, especially on VBR files - Added file informations in the Tag ID3 window - In rare cases while playing and saving the program did hang at the end of the file, hopefully fixed... 2001-09-30: v1.14 - Some corrections in the frame synchronization - Fixed incorrect recognition of CRC (but be careful fading those files, because the CRC will not be adapted!) - CRC and Copyright of frames are shown now if present - In the MPEG info changed "kpbs" to correct "kbps" ;) - [<<<] [>>>] had an initial value of 0, now 100 - Thanks Jaroslav 2001-09-24: v1.13 - Reset the scrollbar buttons to fixed movement (+/- 1/100 frames) - User defineable skip range implemented and skip button design changed to [<<<] [<<] [>>] [>>>] - Some graphics corrections - Faulty error correction fixed - Source MP3 is read in larger blocks now - "Select All" option added (Edit menu) - "Cut play" switch removed