| $Id: HISTORY,v 1.3 2000/04/17 05:05:01 eldamitri Exp $ |
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| ID3Lib History |
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| The following is a history of id3lib up to version 3.05a. Please see the |
| NEWS file for changes since then. |
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| 23 Nov 1998 3.05a - Released 3.05a in which the only change was the |
| inclusion of a C header file for using the DLL |
| (how forgetful I am!). |
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| 22 Nov 1998 3.05 - Released 3.05 and the DLL. |
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| 8 Nov 1998 3.05 - Finished the first revision of the DLL. Interesting |
| stuff. Contains both C++ class and C functions (the |
| C++ classes that are exported to the DLL are Tag, |
| Frame, Field and Error). |
| - Took out the SetVersion function from the ID3_Tag |
| class. This is because I no longer wish ID3Lib to be |
| able to create the old ID3v2-2.0 tags. ID3Lib will |
| always create the latest version tags it is capable |
| of creating. |
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| 1 Nov 1998 3.05 - Removed the encryption and grouping stuff. I have a |
| lot to do before I finish that section and I might |
| end up implementing it differently, so I thought it |
| best to remove it before people started using it |
| (no-one should since it wasn't fully functional |
| anyway). |
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| 13 Oct 1998 3.05 - Work has begun on the Windows DLL. |
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| 9 Oct 1998 3.04 - Added the text list handling functions from 2.16, but |
| they are slightly different under 3.xx. |
| - Also added a Size() function for fields which |
| applications can use to allocate buffers and so on. |
| - Work has progressed on the encryption and grouping |
| side of things, but nothing usable by an application |
| just yet. |
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| 5 Oct 1998 3.04 - Changed the ID3_AddHandler() function to include a |
| parameter which specifies the factor by which the |
| size of the frame may increase as a result of |
| encryption or encoding. This is used for buffer and |
| size estimates. |
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| 3 Oct 1998 3.03a - Fixed a small Unicode BOM bug. |
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| 2 Oct 1998 3.03 - Added very minimal and not-totally-functional support |
| for the automatic handling of encryption and |
| grouping. |
| - Added a function to ID3_Tag which makes attaching |
| arrays of ID3_Frame objects easy. |
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| 1 Oct 1998 3.03 - Yesterday, ID3v2-3.0 became an informal standard. |
| Due to this, ID3Lib now does not create ID3v2-3.0 |
| tags with the EXPERIMENTAL bit set. |
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| 30 Sep 1998 3.02 - Expanded the error handling class to include |
| functions which return the ID3Lib source file and |
| line number of the exception. This is useful for |
| debugging and generating bug reports (hint, hint). |
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| 28 Sep 1998 3.02 - Added the grouping registration and encryption |
| registration frames. Also added support for parsing |
| and rendering frames with the grouping and encryption |
| symbols, although currently this data is ignored. I |
| plan to implement call backs to handle the encryption |
| and decryption of data. Also, there is currently no |
| checking at render-time that all frames which have |
| these symbols also have a corresponding rego frame. |
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| 26 Sep 1998 3.02 - Changed the 'tag changed' stuff so that calls to |
| ID3_Tag::SetVersion(), ID3_Tag::SetCompression() etc |
| now constitute a change in the tag. This is because |
| of the relaxed restrictions on the calls to these |
| functions before rendering/updating. - Fixed a bug |
| in the ID3_Tag::Link() command. |
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| 25 Sep 1998 3.01 - Added the ID3_Tag::RemoveFrame() function. |
| - Added the ID3_Tag::SetExtendedHeader() function, even |
| though this setting is currently ignored. |
| - Added luint return type to the Field::Get() functions |
| for ASCII and Unicode strings. These functions now |
| return how many characters (not bytes necessarily) of |
| the supplied buffer were used, not including the |
| NULL-termination. |
| - Added the 'unique file identifier' frame which I |
| omitted from 3.00 but was present in 2.xx. |
| - Added code that allows ID3Lib and applications to |
| track whether a tag has been altered since the last |
| parse or render. |
| - Slightly altered the padding strategy when a tag |
| shrinks in size. |
| - No more requirements on when ID3_Tag::SetVersion() |
| etc must be called, except that they should be called |
| prior to an update or render if you plan to use |
| different settings than the defaults. |
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| 21 Sep 1998 3.00 - Released 3.00 |
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| 15 Sep 1998 3.00 - Added support for parsing and converting ID3v1/1.1 |
| and Lyrics3 v2.0 tags and CDM frames from 2.01 |
| experimental tags. Also parses Unicode now. |
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| 9 Sep 1998 3.00 - Work almost done on 3.00. A little bit to fix up in |
| the parsing department (doesn't parse Unicode yet, or |
| CDMs from the old 2.01 draft). Then just add |
| validity checking and support for most of the frames. |
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| 2 Sep 1998 2.16 - Small Unicode string parsing bug fixed. |
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| 25 Aug 1998 2.15 - Small bug fixes in the tag parsing routines. |
| - Completely removed support for creating extended |
| headers, and ID3Lib will now ignore tags which have |
| the EXTENDEDHEADER bit set (as under 2.00, this bit |
| isn't defined). |
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| 24 Aug 1998 2.14 - Small bug fixes in the example file 'convert.cpp'. |
| - ID3Lib now sets the EXPERIMENTAL bit in the tag |
| header. |
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| 13 Aug 1998 2.13 - As of 2.13, ID3Lib now comes in two flavours. The |
| first is the normal distribution as we have come to |
| know and love. The second is a machine-specific |
| archive which contains the static link libraries. |
| Currently, you can get Win32 link libraries. |
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| 12 Aug 1998 2.12 - As of 2.12, the ID3Lib distribution will contain |
| precompiled static libraries for Visual C++ and |
| eventually for Linux i386. The MSVC static libs are |
| be compiled for the multi-threaded run-time library |
| and there will be one for debugging and one normal |
| one for release-quality applications. |
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| - Fixed a small exclusion in the 'id3_support.h' file. |
| It now contains a #include for the 'wchar.h' header |
| file. The absence of this line resulted in some |
| applications producing compilation errors if they |
| didn't already include it or 'stdio.h'. |
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| 11 Aug 1998 2.12 - I created a small problem in 2.11 where the name of |
| the URL field in the 'ID3FID_WWWUSER' frame ('WXX') |
| was changed from ID3FN_URL to ID3FN_TEXT. This has |
| been fixed (is back to ID3FN_URL). |
| - When reading a binary tag, previous versions of |
| ID3Lib ignored the fact that some of the frames in |
| the tag may have been compressed, so when writing the |
| tag back out, those old frames were written without |
| compression. This is fixed so that all old frames |
| are written back out as they were read in, unless of |
| course you explicitly change the compression status |
| before rendering the new tag. |
| - Added the ID3C_SetSongSize and ID3C_GetSongSize |
| commands to the ID3_Tag class. These allow you to |
| tell ID3Lib how big (in bytes) the song file is to |
| which you intend attaching the tag. ID3Lib can then |
| work out how much padding the tag requires to |
| correctly make the entire resulting file fill an even |
| multiple of 2Kb. |
| - If the tag we are manipulating was read in as a |
| binary tag before we started playing with it, then |
| ID3Lib will record the size of tag before we started |
| fooling around with it. This way, the padding system |
| can pad the new tag out to the old size if the new |
| tag will still fit inside the old one. This makes |
| file manipulation much easier when writing tags to |
| existing song files. If it won't fit, then the new |
| tag will receive padding as per the 2K cluster |
| method. All this talk of padding only applies if the |
| tag's padding property is set to ID3PD_AUTOMATIC, |
| which it is by default. |
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| 10 Aug 1998 2.11 - Replaced ID3C_SetID and GetID with proper field |
| names, and the same with ID3C_SetComp and GetComp. |
| This requires a change in source code for the |
| application. Without quotes, do a search and |
| replace... |
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| "ID3C_SetID," replace with "ID3C_Set, ID3FN_ID," |
| "ID3C_GetID," replace with "ID3C_Get, ID3FN_ID," |
| "ID3C_SetComp," replace with "ID3C_Set, ID3FN_COMPRESSED," |
| "ID3C_GetComp," replace with "ID3C_Get, ID3FN_COMPRESSED," |
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| - Thanks to a suggestion by Ilana Rudnik, I added a |
| generic frame type called 'ID3FID_UNSUPPORTED' which |
| is only to be used by applications as a |
| 'place-holder' in lists and arrays while waiting for |
| ID3Lib to support all the frames. |
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| 6 Aug 1998 2.11 - Created the ID3C_Locate and ID3C_GetNumFrames |
| commands. |
| - Made the documentation an HTML file instead of boring |
| text. |
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| 5 Aug 1998 2.11 - Thanks to Eng-Keong Lee, I have located and fixed a |
| bug which most-of-the-time caused a crash when |
| performing an ID3C_SetID on a frame for the first |
| time. |
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| 3 Aug 1998 2.10 - Fixed a few things to make ID3Lib compile completely |
| cleanly under Linux - thanks to Carlos Puchol for |
| finding the remaining hassles. |
| - Added two commands to adjust the unsync facility - |
| ID3C_SetUnsync and ID3C_GetUnsync. The default is |
| ID3SY_AUTOMATIC. |
| - Add support for the 2.01 extended tag header. By |
| default, ID3Lib will NOT write an extended header to |
| tags it creates. This can be adjusted by the |
| ID3C_SetExtHeader command. |
| - Changed the directory structure so that the required |
| zlib source is now in the same directory as the |
| ID3Lib source. |
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| 2 Aug 1998 2.10 - Fixed a small memory leak which occurred when |
| clearing a tag of frames which were read in from an |
| external binary tag. |
| - Added a 'bugreport.txt' file to the documentation to |
| improve effectiveness of bug reporting. |
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| 1 Aug 1998 2.10 - Adding support for tag padding. This results in two |
| new commands which operate on ID3_Tag objects: |
| ID3C_SetPadding and ID3C_GetPadding. |
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| 1 Aug 1998 2.09 - Fixed some bugs in the ID3C_ToFile and ID3C_FromFile |
| commands. |
| - Fixed a bug which prevented empty strings which were |
| supposed to be NULL-terminated from doing so. |
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| 31 Jul 1998 2.09 - Changed the functionality of the error handling |
| mechanism. The function interface to the error |
| handler has changed - see the example source file |
| 'main.cpp' for details. |
| - Improved frame verification somewhat. |
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| 28 July 1998 2.08 - Added ID3C_ToFile command to binary fields. |
| - Changed the format of the ID3C_Size command when |
| applied to frames. There is now a required second |
| parameter which specifies which field you require the |
| size of. If you request ID3FN_ALL, you will get the |
| size of the frame itself. |
| - The above change for ID3C_Size now also applies to |
| the ID3C_Clear command (again, only when applied to |
| frames). |
| - Enhanced the ID3C_Find command so as to allow |
| searches based on the ID3FN_LANGUAGE field and the |
| ID3FN_DESCRIPTION field. |
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| 27 July 1998 2.07 - Fixed a bug which had the WXX and TXX frames |
| including a language field which they shouldn't. |
| - Fixed a bug in the string's ID3C_Get command which |
| wrongly interpreted the presence of a '/' symbol in |
| the string as meaning that the string was a textlist. |
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| 21 July 1998 2.06 - Added support for frame compression via zlib. This |
| means that all frames have an extra attribute which |
| specifies whether the frame should be compressed. |
| - Changed some typedefs and macro names so as not to |
| clash with some of Windows' pre-defined |
| datatypes/names. Thanks to Chuck Zenkus for finding |
| this. |
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| 14 July 1998 2.05 - Finished up Unicode support. All internal string |
| handling is done with Unicode strings. Strings are |
| converted as needed during rendering of the tag. |
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| 6 July 1998 2.05 - BINARY fields now support an 'ID3C_FromFile' command |
| which fills the field with data from the specified |
| file. The file is read and the contents placed in |
| the field immediately on the field encountering this |
| command. |
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| 2 July 1998 2.04 - Improved support for frame validation. |
| - Repaired a cool bug in the error handling which |
| prevented an application from finding further |
| information about the error. This fix resulted in a |
| new format for the application error handler |
| function. |
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| 2.03 - Added support for the ID3C_Add, ID3C_Remove, |
| ID3C_GetElement, ID3C_GetNumElements commands in the |
| STRING field type. This allows easy use of the text |
| lists as used in the 'TP1' frame. |
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| - Improved error handling once more. |
| - Added support for the ID3C_Increment command in the |
| INT field type. |
| - Added support for the CNT, POP, GEO, TCO, TCR and UFI |
| frames. |
| - Added preliminary validation checking for frames to |
| ensure they meet the ID3v2 standard requirements. |
| Not fully implemented. |
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| 2.02 - Adjusted the '::Do()' function slightly - you can now |
| chain commands together. The last parameter to this |
| call must now always be 'ID3C_DONE'. |
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| 1 July 1998 2.01 - Added the 'ID3_IsTagHeader()' function and an |
| appropriately adjusted ID3C_Parse command. |
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| 30 June 1998 2.00 - First preliminary release of ID3Lib v2.00. Supports |
| lots of frames (even PIC). Lots of work still |
| needed. |
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| 25 June 1998 2.00 - Abandoned the v1.xx framework in favour of a more |
| versatile and expandable one. This required a major |
| re-write of most of the internals of the library as |
| well as changes to any applications using the |
| previous framework. The new framework is part of all |
| ID3Libs which are 2.xx. |
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| 23 June 1998 1.01 - Released v1.01 which added support for four new |
| frames. TXX, WXX, COM, ULT |
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| 21 June 1998 1.00 - Initial Release (v1.0) |
