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# # @(#)CHANGES 5.2.1 95/03/27 # # xmcd - Motif(tm) CD Audio Player # cda - Command-line CD Audio Player # libdi - CD Audio Player Device Interface Library # # by Ti Kan # Change history: =============== Ver 1.4 patchlevel 2 released Mon Mar 27 08:19:58 PST 1995 ---------------------------------------------------------- CD-ROM Support changes: - Corrected a problem with the Sony CDU-55E ATAPI CD-ROM drive support on the Linux platform. Ver 1.4 patchlevel 1 released Thu Feb 16 08:14:02 PST 1995 ---------------------------------------------------------- OS Support changes: - Corrected a minor problem with the FreeBSD platform support. Ver 1.4 released Sun Feb 12 20:54:01 PST 1995 --------------------------------------------- CD-ROM drive support changes: - Added support for the Chinon CDx-525, DEC RRD44, NEC CDR-210P, Plextor PX-43CS/PX-45CS, Sony CDU-55S and Toshiba XM-3501 SCSI CD-ROM drives. - On the Linux platforms only, added support for the Mitsumi FX001, LU005S, NEC CDR-260, CDR-260R, Panasonic/Matsushita/Kotobuki CR-521, CR-562, CR-563, and Sony CDU-31A, CDU-33A and CDU-55E CD-ROM drives. These are non-SCSI drives using a proprietary interface card, sound card or an IDE/EIDE/ATAPI interface. Xmcd/cda must be configured to run using the SunOS/Linux ioctl method to use these (rather than SCSI pass-through). Also, the appropriate driver support must be configured in the kernel. - On SCSI-2 drives, the IMMED bit in the Start Stop Unit SCSI command CDB is now set. This causes the CD ejects command to complete immediately, avoiding command time-out situations on some platforms. - When ejectOnExit was set, the CD wasn't being ejected when the program quits (on certain SCSI-1 CD-ROM drives only). This is now fixed. - The version number of the LIBDIR/xmcd/config/.cfgtbl/* files have been bumped to 2. A new field is added to these files to configure the new noTURWhenPlaying parameter in device.cfg. OS Support changes: - Add support for the FreeBSD (version 2.1 or later) platform. See the README file for special notes about the kernel and SCSI driver configuration. - The configure.sh script was not properly setting the MAILCMD variable on some OS platforms. Fixed. - Added a SunOS/Linux ioctl method module to libdi. This is primarily used to support non-SCSI CD-ROM drives using a proprietary interface card under Linux. Although this method can be used with SCSI CD-ROM drives under Linux, SunOS 4.1.x, and Solaris 2.x platforms, it is recommended that the SCSI pass-through method be used instead. - Fixed a problem with the volume slider not being properly initialized on the DEC OSF/1 and Motorola SVR4/m88k platforms. - The configure.sh script no longer rejects a device node path that doesn't exist on the Solaris 2.x platform with the Solaris Volume Manager. Misc changes: - Enhanced the libdi design such that multiple CD-ROM controlling methods can be implemented and coexist. The original support for SCSI pass-through is now an instance of a method. This change involves adding another jump table for all libdi functions to branch control to the appropriate method. The device.cfg file now has a new deviceInterfaceMethod parameter that configures the actual method to use. See the PORTING file for details. - The cda utility now supports a "visual" mode that turns cda into a screen-oriented (curses-based) CD player. - Implemented work-around to avoid hitting a bug in some versions of Motif-1.2. The symptom was a xmcd crash when the CDDB/Program subwindow is closed. - The xmcd CDDB/Program window Track List now highlights the appropriate entry when a track title is being edited in the Track Title Editor box, even if a track is not explicitly selected. Also, the Track List now automatically scrolls down as tracks titles are entered. - Xmcd now displays an error message if a CDDB Save operation fails due to a full filesystem. - The dbdir parameter in common.cfg and the XMCD_DBPATH environment variables now support tilde-expansion (e.g., ~/somepath or ~someuser/somepath is now handled correctly). - Xmcd and cda now creates a directory /tmp/.cdaudio. All lock files, fifo nodes, and other temporary files are created and deleted under that directory (instead of directly in /tmp). This is because many platforms set the sticky bit in the /tmp directory permissions, making it cumbersome for xmcd/cda to maintain lock files (one user's xmcd process should be able to delete another's lock file if the other process has exited). - The misc.d/makesrc.sh and misc.d/makerel.sh scripts have been further enhanced to print informative messages, and these now work correctly on systems with a limited command line length. - Removed the BUGS file and added the FAQ file. - Added the "reggae" and "folk" categories to the standard CD database. - Other enhancements and cleanups. Ver 1.3 released Fri Sep 30 12:32:10 PDT 1994 --------------------------------------------- CD-ROM drive support changes: - Added support for the DEC RRD43 CD-ROM drive. OS Support changes: - IBM AIX 4.x is now supported. - Fixed a misplaced line in libdi.d/configure.sh that caused the default device node path to be set wrong under the IBM AIX and DEC OSF/1 environments. - Added improved instructions for DG/UX, and corrected the default CD-ROM device node path in configure.sh. - The configure.sh script now will set up the XMcd*cddbMailCmd parameter as well, based on the OS variant. - The configure.sh now prompts the user before creating any X library symbolic links from non-standard locations to /usr/lib on SVR4 systems. Misc changes: - Added an xmcd Options sub-window which allows run-time toggle of many of the feature options in the device.cfg file. The Options window also includes a Channel Routing selector, a Volume Control Taper selector and a stereo Balance slider control (these can be used on CD-ROM drives that has the appropriate capabilities). - Added a Track Warp feature in the xmcd Keypad subwindow. This allows fast searches to any part of a track using a slider. In conjunction with the keypad, this allows very easy access to any arbitrary CD location. A similar feature is added to cda, where the "cda play" command now accepts an optional mm:ss offset argument if a track number is also specified. - Added a new Repeat Count Indicator in the xmcd main window display area. This shows the number of iteration completed when playing audio with the Repeat mode enabled. Likewise, a Repeat Count field is added to the "cda status" output. - Added support for the following cda commands: "balance" to set the stereo channel balance, and "route" to set the channel routing. - The Disc ID indicator in the xmcd CDDB/Program window now displays the CD category as well as the disc ID number. Likewise, the "cda toc" command now displays the category under the "Disc ID" heading as well. - The xmcd database Link feature CD list now displays the average track offset difference between the current CD and each potential database match. Those entries that are within 10 seconds are now listed with bold font. This enhancement is based on code contributed by Andreas Zins (zins@forwiss.uni-erlangen.de). - Fixed a bug which causes xmcd to generate an X protocol error if the XMcd*cddbMailCmd resource is improperly set and the Send button is used. - The XMcd*cddbMailCmd resource now uses %S, %A and %F to denote the mail subject, mail address and CD database file path, respectively. This makes it easier to configure xmcd to work with different mailers. - Fixed a bug where the track list display in the CDDB subwindow was being duplicated when a disc which is not in the database is inserted and ejected. - Fixed a typo in the xmcd.d/cfgtbl/Pioneer file which caused Pioneer not to appear in the xmcd configure.sh menu. - Increased the string buffer used in common_parminit() in xmcd.d/cdfunc.c so that longer CD database directory paths can be accommodated. - The "caddyLock" parameter is now in device.cfg instead of common.cfg. Thus, it is now configurable on a per-device basis. - Added the balanceControlSupport, channelRouteSupport and channelRoute parameters to device.cfg. Enhanced the configure.sh script to set up these parameters based on CD-ROM drive brand and model. - Fixed libdi.d/configure.sh to not put a backslash in the app-defaults/XMcd file (it was writing "XMcd\*libdir:", but it should be "XMcd*libdir:"). - Added support for editres(1) in xmcd. The code is enabled if compiled with -DEDITRES in the xmcd.d directory under X11R5 or later. This feature is contributed by Andreas Zins (zins@forwiss.uni-erlangen.de). - The "cda status cont" command now supports a sub-argument "secs" to allow the user to specify the display update time interval in seconds. The default is now 1 second. - The "cda extinfo" command now always displays the disc extended info, then followed by the track extended info of the currently playing track, if any. If "cda extinfo track#" is specified, then the specified track extended info is displayed instead. - The xmcd/cda -debug option was ineffective if the user has a $HOME/.xmcdcfg/common.cfg file with the debugMode parameter set to False. This is now fixed. - Added "blues" and "country" to the default CD categories list. - If using the GNU C compiler (gcc), it is no longer required to specify the -fwritable-strings option. - Other enhancements and cleanups. Ver 1.2 released Wed Jul 27 12:34:29 PDT 1994 --------------------------------------------- CD-ROM drive support changes: - Fixed to really work with the Chinon CD-43x drives. - Add support for the Plextor 4Plex and the NEC CDR-900 (4xPro). OS Support changes: - Add support for Apple A/UX, Data General DG/UX and Stratus FTX SVR4/PA-RISC platforms. - Enhancements to the DEC OSF/1 and Ultrix error handling. - On Solaris 2.x platforms, added support for the -c, -X and -o options for full compatibility with the Solaris Volume Manager auto-start feature using the action_workman.so program. Misc changes: - Major source code tree re-organization into subdirectories. - "Makefile.std" files are added to the source code distribution. These can be used to build the source code on systems that do not have imake. - Added a new utility "cda" to the distribution. This is a command-line driven (non-X) audio CD player. The command interface makes it ideal as a script-driven player. - A new "Send" button is added to the xmcd CDDB/Program window. This allows users to send the CD database entry of the currently loaded CD to the xmcd CD database archive site. - The "Play Program" button in the CDDB/Program window has been deleted. The main window "Play/Pause" button is used to start program playback instead. This change also involves a few other minor program-mode related behavioral changes. - Many common configuration parameters have been moved from XMcd.ad into the new common.cfg file. - The device-specific configuration file has been renamed from dev.config to device.cfg. - Added two new device-specific parameters that can be set to suit user preferences: "playOnLoad" determines whether xmcd will auto-play a CD after loading, and "ejectOnDone" determines whether xmcd will automatically eject the CD after it's done playing. - The CD now does not spin down between tracks when using the prev-track or next-track buttons in shuffle and program modes. - Xmcd (and cda) no longer silently ignore the error if the common or device-specific configuration file cannot be opened. - Fixed a few obscure problems involving the use of various xmcd controls when the player is in shuffle or program mode and the playback is paused. - If a CD has multiple links in the database, xmcd no longer displays duplicate lines in the Link Selector list menu. Also, the list menu sorting is now case-insensitive. - All window sizes have been reduced to conserve screen space. - The XMcd*mainShowTrackTitle, XMcd*mainShowDiscTitle and XMcd*cddbTimeShowLength X resources have been removed. The built-in behavior is equivalent to setting these to True. - The install.sh and configure.sh scripts now have error message logging capability. - A new makeshar.sh script is added to the distribution that makes shar format xmcd source code releases. - Security improvements: the uid and gid settings are forced to their original settings regardless of whether SETUID_ROOT is defined. - Other enhancements and cleanups. Ver 1.1 released Fri Feb 25 18:40:36 PST 1994 --------------------------------------------- CD-ROM drive support changes: - Add support for more SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives from Chinon, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Procom, Sony and Toshiba. - Added support for Apple, Chinon and Sony SCSI-1 CD-ROM drives operating using vendor-unique commands. - Fixed problems in the Pioneer vendor-unique support code. - Drive-specific configuration data (previously hard coded in configure.sh) is now looked up in table files under the LIBDIR/xmcd/config/.tbl directory. - On SCSI-2 drives, the REW, FF and Sample operations will now use Play Audio MSF command by default, if the playAudioMSFSupport parameter is True. In xmcd-1.0, these operations were supported only with the Play Audio(10) or Play Audio (12) commands. - A new curposFormat device-specific parameter is added to specify whether the CD-ROM drive supports Data Format 1 (CD-ROM Current Position) of the Read Subchannel SCSI-2 command. - The volumeControlSetDBD device-specific parameter is renamed to modeSenseSetDBD. OS Support changes: - Added support for DEC Ultrix and OSF/1 on DECstations and DEC Alpha AXP. - Added support for Linux on Intel x86 platforms. - Added support for IBM AIX on the RS/6000. - Added support for SGI IRIX on SGI workstations. - HP-UX specific code is now conditionally compiled via #ifdef __hpux instead of #ifdef hpux. This is because the HP cc compiler pre-defines the former but not the latter in ANSI mode (-Ae). - Changed a "struct inquiry_data" to "struct inqry_data" in di_scsipt.h to avoid conflict with "union inquiry_data" in HP-UX's <sys/scsi.h>. - Support for Solaris 2.x platforms is improved. Added code to coexist with the Solaris Volume Manager. - The configure.sh script has been improved such that on SVR4 systems, it will attempt to create symlinks of shared library files to /usr/lib even if LIBDIR is set to a non-standard location. - Fixed to avoid a core dump in cd_untimeout() on some 64-bit systems. Misc changes: - Source file names were changed to better illustrate their function. - Reordered a few stack structure declarations to fix alignment issues on some platforms. This fixes a core dump and other failures when doing FF and REW operations on those systems. - Improved CD database files permissions handling. - Added a -debug command line option. When used, xmcd will generate verbose diagnostics about the commands it sends and the data it receives from the CD-ROM drive. - Added XMcd.mainShowDiscTitle and XMcd.mainShowTrackTitle X application resources. When set to True, these will cause xmcd to display the artist/disc title and currently playing track title in the main window display area, respectively. The default settings for these are True. For those who prefer the simpler appearance of xmcd-1.0, you can set either or both of these resources to False. - Added XMcd.cddbTimeShowLength X application resource. When set to True, the default CDDB Track List time display mode will be "track lengths" instead of "track offsets". - A new exitOnEject device-specific parameter is added which, if set to True, causes xmcd to exit when a CD is ejected. Likewise, the new closeOnEject parameter causes xmcd to close the device on eject, and re-open when the CD is re-loaded. - The CD database disc ID is now shown on the CDDB window. - A watch cursor is now displayed when xmcd is doing CD database file I/O. - A wm2xmcd utility is now included in the xmcd distribution that converts WorkMan CD database files to xmcd format. - Other enhancements and cleanups. Ver 1.0 released Mon Nov 08 11:02:00 PST 1993 --------------------------------------------- - Initial general availability.