Release Notes: =============== eyeD3 0.6.16 - 06.09.2008 (Gimme Danger) Bug fixes: * Typo fix of sysnc/unsync data. Thanks to Gergan Penkov * Infinite loop fix when dealing with malformed APIC frames. * Tag.removeUserTextFrame helper. Thanks to David Grant eyeD3 0.6.15 - 03.02.2008 (Doin' The Cockroach) Bug fixes: * ID3 v1 comment encoding (latin1) bug fix (Renaud Saint-Gratien ) * APIC picture type fix (Michael Schout ) * Fixed console Unicode encoding for display. * Fixed frame de-unsnychronization bugs. * Round float BPMs to int (per the spec) New features: * Lame tag output enhancements. * Added --no-tagging-time to quell updates to TDTG frames. * Added -F to specify a different delimiter for multi-field options. Useful when one of the fields contains a ':' * Added --remove-images to remove all APIC frames eyeD3 0.6.14 - 05.08.2007 (Breakthrough) Bugs fixes since 0.6.13: - Fixed a nasty corruption of the first mp3 header when writing to files that do not already contain a tag. - Fixed a bug that would duplicate TYER frames when setting new values. - Fixed the reading/validation of some odd (i.e.,rare) mp3 headers Features added since 0.6.13: - Encoding info extracted from Lame mp3 headers [Todd Zullinger] - Genre names will now support '|' to allow for genres like "Rock|Punk|Pop-Punk" and '!' for "Oi!" eyeD3 0.6.13 - 04.30.2007 (Undercovers On) - Numerous write fixes, especially for v2.4 tags. Thanks to Alexander Thomas for finding these. - Add --no-zero-padding option to allow disabling of zero padding track numbers - Add --nfo option to output NFO format files about music directories. - Time computation fixes when MP3 frames headers were mistakingly found. eyeD3 0.6.12 - 02.18.2007 (Rid Of Me) - Handle Mac style line ending in lyrics and display with the proper output encoding. [Todd Zullinger] - TDTG support and other date frame fixes. [Todd Zullinger] - Output encoding bug fixes. [Todd Zullinger] eyeD3 0.6.11 - 11.05.2006 (Disintegration) - Support for GEOB (General encapsulated object) frames from Aaron VonderHaar - Decreased memory consumption during tag rewrites/removals. - Allow the "reserved" mpeg version bits when not in strict mode. - Solaris packages available via Blastwave - http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/pyeyed3 eyeD3 0.6.10 - 03.19.2006 (Teh Mesk release) - Unsynchronized lyrics (USLT) frame support [Todd Zullinger ] - UTF16 bug fixes - More forgiving of invalid User URL frames (WXXX) - RPM spec file fixes [Knight Walker ] - More details in --verbose display eyeD3 0.6.9 - 01.08.2005 (The Broken Social Scene Release) - eyeD3 (the CLI) processes directories more efficiently - A specific file system encoding can be specified for file renaming, see --fs-encoding (Andrew de Quincey) - Faster mp3 header search for empty and/or corrupt mp3 files - Extended header fixes - Bug fix for saving files with no current tag - What would a release be without unicode fixes, this time it's unicode filename output and JEP 0118 output. eyeD3 0.6.8 - 08.29.2005 (The Anal Cunt Release) - Frame header size bug. A _serious_ bug since writes MAY be affected (note: I've had no problems reported so far). eyeD3 0.6.7 - 08.28.2005 (The Autopsy Release) - Beats per minute (TPBM) interface - Publisher/label (TPUB) interface - When not in strict mode exceptions for invalid tags are quelled more often - Support for iTunes ID3 spec violations regarding multiple APIC frames - Bug fix where lang in CommentFrame was unicode where it MUST be ascii - Bug fixed for v2.2 frame header sizes - Bug fixed for v2.2 PIC frames - File rename bug fixes - Added -c option as an alias for --comment - -i/--write-images now takes a destination path arg. Due to optparse non-support for optional arguments the path MUST be specified. This option no longer clobbers existing files. eyeD3 0.6.6 - 05.15.2005 (The Electric Wizard Release) - APIC frames can now be removed. - An interface for TBPM (beats per minute) frames. - Utf-16 bug fixes and better unicode display/output - RPM spec file fixes eyeD3 0.6.5 - 04.16.2005 - Read-only support for ID3 v2.2 - TPOS frame support (disc number in set). - Bug fixes eyeD3 0.6.4 - 02.05.2005 - Native support for play count (PCNT), and unique file id (UFID) frames. - More relaxed genre processing. - Sync-safe bug fixed when the tag header requests sync-safety and not the frames themselves. - configure should successfly detect python release candidates and betas. eyeD3 0.6.3 - 11.23.2004 - Much better unicode support when writing to the tag. - Added Tag.setEncoding (--set-encoding) and --force-update - Handle MP3 frames that violate spec when in non-strict mode. (Henning Kiel ) - Fix for Debian bug report #270964 - Various bug fixes. eyeD3 0.6.2 - 8.29.2004 (Happy Birthday Mom!) - TagFile.rename and Tag.tagToString (eyeD3 --rename=PATTERN). The latter supports substitution of tag values: %A is artist, %t is title, %a is album, %n is track number, and %N is track total. - eyeD3 man page. - User text frame (TXXX) API and --set-user-text-frame. - Python 2.2/Optik compatibility works now. - ebuild for Gentoo (http://eyed3.nicfit.net/releases/gentoo/) eyeD3 0.6.1 - 5/14/2004 (Oz/2 Ohh my!) - Unicode support - UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-16BE - Adding images (APIC frames) is supported (--add-image, Tag.addImage(), etc.) - Added a --relaxed option to be much more forgiving about tags that violate the spec. Quite useful for removing such tags. - Added Tag.setTextFrame (--set-text-frame=FID:TEXT) - Added --remove-comments. - Now requires Python 2.3. Sorry, but I like cutting-edge python features. - Better handling and conversion (2.3 <=> 2.4) of the multiple date frames. - Output format per JEP 0118: User Tune, excluding xsd:duration format for (http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0118.html) - Lot's of bug fixes. - Added a mailing list. Subscribe by sending a message to eyed3-devel-subscribe@nicfit.net eyeD3 0.5.1 - 7/17/2003 (It's Too Damn Hot to Paint Release) - Temporary files created during ID3 saving are now properly cleaned up. - Fixed a "bug" when date frames are present but contain empty strings. - Added a --no-color option to the eyeD3 driver. - Workaround invalid tag sizes by implyied padding. - Updated README eyeD3 0.5.0 - 6/7/2003 (The Long Time Coming Release) - ID3 v2.x saving. - The eyeD3 driver/sample program is much more complete, allowing for most common tag operations such as tag display, editing, removal, etc. Optik is required to use this program. See the README. - Complete access to all artist and title frames (i.e. TPE* and TIT*) - Full v2.4 date support (i.e. TDRC). - Case insensitive genres and compression fixes. (Gary Shao) - ExtendedHeader support, including CRC checksums. - Frame groups now supported. - Syncsafe integer conversion bug fixes. - Bug fixes related to data length indicator bytes. - Genre and lot's of other bug fixes. eyeD3 0.4.0 - 11/11/2002 (The Anniversary Release *smooch*) - Added the ability to save tags in ID v1.x format, including when the linked file was IDv2. Original backups are created by default for the time being... - Added deleting of v1 and v2 frames from the file. - Zlib frame data decompression is now working. - bin/eyeD3 now displays user text frames, mp3 copyright and originality, URLs, all comments, and images. Using the --write-images arg will write each APIC image data to disk. - Added eyeD3.isMp3File(), Tag.clear(), Tag.getImages(), Tag.getURLs(), Tag.getCDID(), FrameSet.removeFrame(), Tag.save(), ImageFrame.writeFile(), etc... - Modified bin/eyeD3 to grok non Mp3 files. This allows testing with files containing only tag data and lays some groundwork for future OGG support. - Fixed ImageFrame mime type problem. - Fixed picture type scoping problems. eyeD3 0.3.1 - 10/24/2002 - RPM packages added. - Fixed a bug related to ID3 v1.1 track numbers. (Aubin Paul) - Mp3AudioFile matchs *.mp3 and *.MP3. (Aubin Paul) eyeD3 0.3.0 - 10/21/2002 - Added a higher level class called Mp3AudioFile. - MP3 frame (including Xing) decoding for obtaining bit rate, play time, etc. - Added APIC frame support (eyeD3.frames.Image). - BUG FIX: Tag unsynchronization and deunsynchronization now works correctly and is ID3 v2.4 compliant. - Tags can be linked with file names or file objects. - More tag structure abstractions (TagHeader, Frame, FrameSet, etc.). - BUG FIX: GenreExceptions were not being caught in eyeD3 driver. eyeD3 0.2.0 - 8/15/2002 - ID3_Tag was renamed to Tag. - Added Genre and GenreMap (eyeD3.genres is defined as the latter type) - Added support of ID3 v1 and v2 comments. - The ID3v2Frame file was renamed ID3v2 and refactoring work has started with the addition of TagHeader. eyeD3 0.1.0 - 7/31/2002 - Initial release.