[mad-announce] MAD 0.14.2b available

[Rob Leslie]

MAD version 0.14.2b is now available.

See the CHANGES file in the distribution for full details. In summary...

This version adds three new output modules to `madplay':

  - esd: Enlightened Sound Daemon (EsounD)
  - cdda: CD audio (16-bit 44100 Hz stereo, padded to CD frame boundary,
    suitable for recording directly to CD)
  - aiff: Audio IFF

Also, two new options:

  --bit-depth: select the output sample resolution
  --ignore-crc: decode frames with bad CRCs

Finally, for Win32 users, `madplay' no longer requires any Cygwin DLLs at
runtime; the built EXE runs stand-alone using Microsoft's Visual C runtime
(MSVCRT.DLL). Also, keyboard controls are now supported under Win32.

The MAD plug-in for Winamp has one bug fix and a few other changes in
preparation for an ID3v2 tag editor, but no major new developments.

The source code is here:

  ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/mpeg/

The plug-in for Winamp is here:

  http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/

Cheers,

-- 
Rob Leslie
rob@mars.org