[linux-audio-user] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta6 released

[Dragan Noveski]

Tom Szilagyi wrote:
> The developers are pleased to announce the latest release of
> Aqualung, a music player for GNU/Linux.
>
> Website: http://aqualung.sf.net
>
> Without further ado, the ChangeLog is attached below.
>
> Enjoy,
> Tom
>
>
> 2006-10-03      Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net>
>
> Aqualung 0.9beta6
> http://aqualung.sf.net
>
> This release introduces a fair number of substantial improvements:
>
> * Music Store builder: automatically build a Music Store by scanning the
>   files on disk. Perform CDDB lookups & extract metadata on the fly.
>
> * MPEG decoder enhancements: robust file recognition, VBR and UBR file
>   support, frame-accurate seeking, true gapless playback via eliminating
>   encoder padding+delay read from LAME headers.
>
> * Fully revamped metadata support using TagLib. The result is a more
>   complete implementation also supporting APE tags in Musepack files.
>
> * Automatic output driver detection: ability to startup without command
>   line arguments (using default driver parameters).
>         
> * Systray (a.k.a. Notification Area) support.
>
> * Handling of compressed MOD files (.gz and .bz2).
>
> * Resolved issue with JACK memory locking (which previously resulted in
>   runaway memory consumption when running with realtime JACK output).
>
> * Aqualung compiles & runs under FreeBSD and Cygwin.
>
>
> NEW LIBRARY DEPENDENCIES:
>         
> * TagLib >= 1.4 is now required for metadata support.
>   http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html
>
> * GTK+ >= 2.10 is needed for the (optional) Systray support.
>
>
> DROPPED DEPENDENCIES:
>         
> * libid3tag library is not required anymore (succeeded by TagLib).
>
>
>   
excellent work, builds good, runs good and works good with jack.
are you guys planing to implement the ability to play cdda into aqualung.

cheers,
doc