[mpg123-devel] Heads up

[Thomas O. <tho...@or...>]

Hi,

just wanting to say that I'm not entirely dead and still intend to get
mpg132 1.16.0 out. I wanted to hack in the build system switch to allow
K6 users to skip on suboptimal dxt36 (runtime switching is perhaps just
to much needless work and testing), but stumbled over an old patch for
APIC support instead. So, you can extract album art via libmpg123 now
(see MPG123_PICTURE and the list of
http://mpg123.orgis.org/api/structmpg123__picture.shtml in
http://mpg123.orgis.org/api/structmpg123__id3v2.shtml).

That might be interesting for fancy jukebox applications that are too
lazy to use proper tag libraries. Since clearly not every one needs
this, the picture parsing must be enabled explicitly. There is
mpg123-id3dump now, which is an extension of
http://mpg123.orgis.org/api/id3dump_8c.shtml and also can write album
art to files.

This new program is not part of the Windows builds (the packages
created by the build script); it needs adaption to support unicode file
names, at least, on that platform. JonY: you feel like fixing it up and
at the same time collect the code you would duplicate from mpg123.c in
a common spot? All those define checks really have gotten ugly, no need
to have them twice:-/

Any other last words befor 1.16.0? I really want this performance boost
out there.


Alrighty then,

Thomas