Re: [Lame-dev] lame 3.90

[Roel V. <vd...@yu...>]

Hello Mark,

Monday, October 29, 2001, 10:47:54 PM, you wrote:

MT> Hi Everyone,

MT> What do you think of a stable 3.90 release at the end of this week?
MT> Are there any more outstanding issues?

I am very aware of the loud cry for a beta and a stable and therefore
I think it's essential something as fundamental as the ReplayGain gets
in and gets at least a few days of testing before made stable.

Gabriel already put the code in but is bound to some pretty harsh time
constraints and it still needs work:
http://66.96.216.160/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=c&action=display&num=1004025520

This is far out of my ballpark so I guess it'd be nice if a few
seasoned forces tried to make this work?  I hope Gabriel can make the
time to comment on this issue. (as this is just my personal opinion)

Reality is an aweful lot of people are still using 3.70 stable so it'd
be harsh to see the stable 3.90 be released with a LAME Tag _missing_
the RG fields just before it was completed, needing to wait another
year or so before the next stable.

MT> I tested --nogap and --nogapout today, and they seem to be working,
MT> but I make the frontend disable the VBR tag if the user is using
MT> --nogap.  I dont think there are any decoders (including lame --decode) 
MT> that look for VBR tags in the middle of a bitstream, so I you use
MT> --nogap + VBR tag it is not possible at present to get gapless playback.

Would it be possible to simply pass a trigger to the decoder saying "I'm
feeding frames from a fresh file" and only check for presence of a TAG
there?  This strikes me a practical issue holding back a more
fundamental one.  There is no such thing as a nogap decoder so why not
do it right from the start on? :)

Or, unholy suggestion:

Stable what is proven now so a nice date can be met and lets say make
the commitment to beta+stable cycle another release before the second
full moon from now sets?

That one with an extensively tested RG and nogap Tag thingy?

I'm sure it's been done before :p (or how about a 1.9(1/2) stable rather
than a 1.90 one?)

kind and respectful regards,
Roel