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From: Andy Lo A Foe <arloafoe@cs.vu.nl>
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Subject: [ANN] alsaplayer pr4
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Hi,

I've put up a new version of alsaplayer at:
http://alsa.jcu.cz/alsa/people/andy/

---- Changelog -------

Thu Mar  4 11:57:12 CET 1999
----------------------------

Fixes:
- Cleanup of automake builds. Distrubtions can now be build by simply
  doing a 'make dist' in the source tree, cool! Automatically fixed the
  .deps/ inclusion prob!
- Started serious thinking about the marshaller thread. This is the main
  reason there is no function playlist yet. Since the program is threaded
  we can't use simple function calls in some places, messaging is needed.

MAJOR CHANGE:

I switched from the old (and buggy) amp mpeg decoding engine to mpg123.
This makes the whole player about 10x more stable since mpg123 has very
robust error correction (compared to amp, which had none :). The speed is
about the same with full optimization. It also looks like the floating point
exceptions that were occuring were happening inside the amp engine, woohoo!
And of course mpg123 has a much clearer license than amp... *Psyched*

----------------------------

Please report bugs to me at arloafoe@cs.vu.nl. I'm also looking for new
"effects" to include. If you have a idea (preferably code :) which
manipulates a block of PCM data in a funny/cool/useful way let me know..

Thanks,

Andy
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