Audacity 1.3.7-beta release : audacity-minsrc-1.3.7.tar.bz2

| Requested 'vamp-hostsdk >= 2.0' but version of vamp-hostsdk is 1.1.0

Not available on F10 and older. It's ABI incompatible (also renames

headers) and would require a coordinated upgrade of all deps in F10.

F11 devel is _new enough_.

RDF/Redland/SLV2 support : GONE (was only in 1.3.6-beta)

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Okay, so what happens in 1.3.6-beta is that the FLAC Import plugin accepts

MP3 files (and other junk regardless of the file extension and without

checking the fLaC file header magic bytes) and either causes OOM or

creates lots of garbage tracks in Audacity. Changes in the main Import

plugin code are the culprit, too. As a fallback during import, if no

suitable plugin is found, all plugins are used to open ("probe") an input

file. Really bad so far.

Building without ffmpeg and without MP3 decoder crashes Audacity

during import of MP3 files.

ffmpeg loader defaults to searching for "avformat-52.dll" and fails

to accept a 3rd party libavformat.so.52, as libavcodec is not recent

enough (in Audacity log).

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New optional build deps:

  SLV2 - http://drobilla.net/software/slv2/

  (not in Fedora yet, bz #470914)

      SLV2 is a library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple

      as possible for applications.

      SLV2 is written in standard C using the Redland RDF toolkit, and is

      known to work on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. Licensed under the GPL v2

      or later for now,

  Redland - (in Fedora), large RDF toolkit

      (pulls in libraptor, librasqal, libmysqlclient and more)

  liblrdf - (in Fedora), RDF manipulation library

      (pulls in Redland's libraptor)

  (TODO: check usage of these two RDF APIs)

  Port SMF - MIDI library (no external shared lib) included with Audacity

  ffmpeg - only a few headers included, TODO: which version of the library

       does it want at run-time? (3rd party repo compatibility?)

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In audacity-1_3_6-test branch:

d02edac1dafb0c6f6fb12d29505c63b72fb1b116  audacity-src-1.3.6.tar.bz2

Uploaded to lookaside cache. That's a fresh tarball with a post-release

fix mentioned on audacity-devel.

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From audacity-devel:

We're going to freeze the code in HEAD on October 18 at 12noon UTC, and 

plan to release 1.3.6 on October 23.

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Concurrent work in multiple projects causes corruption and

stalled actions? Reproducible down to 1.3.2-beta, confirmed by

somebody on audacity devel list. Could be because something's not

thread-safe.

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rawhide, 1.3.5-beta

DONE: check upstream multi-lib changes

now is done via -DLIBDIR=\"$(libdir)\"

DONE: check upstream libmp3lame.so.0 rename

changed in src/export/ExportMP3.cpp, but not yet in translations

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Audacity 1.3.5-beta release : in "audacity-1_3_4-test" branch,

albeit packaged together with 1.3.2-beta in the same pkg.

TODO: See top of spec and evaluate whether this beta would

be a candidate to upgrade to (at least for F10 devel and

possibly F9/F8 updates-testing).

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CVS snapshot from 2008-01-23 has had positive feedback, too, but could

need more testing.

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CVS snapshot from 2008-01-11 does not suffer from the many audio problems

described below.

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Changes in upstream cvs are said to improve ALSA/JACK support (2008-01-03)

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Upstream sound like they might disable JACK support in the next release,

because it "has never really been tested [...] anyway" and because of the

PA v19 problems since 1.3.4-beta.

A fix for the ALSA regressions since 1.3.3-beta is still uncertain, since

the OSS support in PA v19 is considered a backup solution for any users

which encounter problems.

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Audacity 1.3.4-beta release : unchanged behaviour compared with

previous comment. Fedora 7+8.

Test package in devel branch "audacity-1_3_4-test" only

( cvs co -r audacity-1_3_4-test audacity )

Without JACK support, tagged: audacity-1_3_4-0_2_beta_fc9

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In a fresh account, Audacity's AudioIO ctor calls PortAudio's

Pa_Initialize(), which in turn starts JACK's "jackd" although Audacity

defaults to OSS in the audio preferences. This breaks audio completely.

One can kill jackd, switch from OSS to ALSA in the preferences, but

then gets the same symptoms as in 1.3.3-beta.

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Audacity pre 1.3.4 beta (cvs 2007-11-08) contains copies of libmad and

libtwolame, which would need to be stripped. Its ALSA support still seems

to be broken heavily compared with 1.3.2-beta.

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Audacity 1.3.3 beta is in branch "audacity-1_3_3-test" only

( cvs co -r audacity-1_3_3-test audacity ) as it doesn't work

as good as 1.3.2 beta. The ALSA driver in PortAudio determines

inappropriate sample rates.