- I will post news about the development of the next TAK version.
- I may ask you questions regarding new features.
- You may comment my work, ask for features and help me to do it right.
What i did until 2009-06-11
Optimizations
1) Removed some more assembler routines and simplified a lot of code. Most binaries are again smaller now.
2) Slightly faster encoding and decoding of LossyWav files.
3) Slightly faster encoding and decoding if MMX is disabled and the pure pascal code is beeing used.
4) There may be a tiny general speed up.
Fixes
1) Skymmer has reported very bad results when compressing LossyWav files with presets -p3 and p4 (BTW: It doesn't make sense to go higher than -p2m with LossyWav files...). A new filter introduced in TAK 1.1.1 was responsible for this annoying misbehaviour. It's now disabled for frame sizes <= 512 (-fsl512). Later i may reactivate the filter and optimize it for small frames.
New features
1) Tagging for the command line version TAKC.
The syntax is similar to WavPack:
CODE
-tt # Add textual tag item #, where # is a key/value pair: "key=value",
for instance "TITLE=A nice song". "key=@file" will read the value
from the text(!) file "file" in the source directory.
for instance "TITLE=A nice song". "key=@file" will read the value
from the text(!) file "file" in the source directory.
One of the next versions will also add another command do store cover art.
Unfortunately TAKC still doesn't support Unicode parameters in the command line. Hopefully you will nevertheless regard the new tagging functionality as useful.
Further plans
1) One of the next versions probably will support encoding with multiple cores. Possibly i will prepare the encoder for this.
Thomas