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PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2024 2:31 pm    Post subject: K3b 0.12.1 Released Reply with quote

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13.06.2005
K3b 0.12 released

The highly anticipated (at least by myself) new K3b release 0.12 is finally here. K3b 0.12 features a lot of cool stuff and also fixes many problems that drove user, especially unexperienced, crazy. As always my ChangeLog is not complete and way too large to state in full. So here an overview of the highlights in K3b 0.12

* The main focus of this release is clearly the audio project. It has been nearly completely rewritten. As a result one can now merge tracks, split them, or add silence at the end or the beginning of a track. The unusual handling of pregaps in older K3b versions is gone. Now the unexperienced user does not need to bother with pregaps at all. K3b does not add two second pregaps by default anymore. It now works like it should: the pregap is simply a property of the track and if one wants to add a real gap there is always the silence source which can be added whereever needed.
One can now drag audio tracks directly from the audio CD browser into an audio project. No need to rip the tracks manually. Just drag the tracks you want and let K3b do the rest: it will ask for the CDs when writing the project.
Apart from that we have new audio decoding plugins for Musepack audio files, for all libsndfile and ffmpeg supported audio formats (this includes wma audio files), Musicbrainz support to fetch CD-Text information, as well as a Cddb plugin which queries the internet for a cddb entry for an audio project.
The audio project now features a "prelisten" feature. Listen to your audio CD before writing it. This results in a funny sideeffect when used in combination with dragging audio tracks from the audio CD browser: K3b can be used as an audio CD player.
It is now possible to convert a complete audio CD project into any audio format supported by K3b. The used dialog looks a lot like the audio CD ripping dialog and also features things like file naming patterns or cue file creation.
Last but not least K3b 0.12 improves the "Auto" writing speed selection in audio CD projects. It will not as before simply use the highest supported writing speed but check for the highest possible writing speed. That means it will test how fast the tracks can be decoded when writing on-the-fly.
* Another audio CD related feature is the support of audio cues. K3b is now able to import audio cue files into an audio project or simply write them to CD using the write CD image feature.
* K3b now has proper session management. Don't bother with saving your projects when logging out of KDE. K3b will restart with the exact same open projects as before once you log on again.
* Also very nice is the new automatic multisession handling in the data project. K3b automatically decides whether to start, continue, or close a multisession CD/DVD based on the size of the project and the remaining size on the media.
* K3b 0.12 features simple HAL support: K3b will automatically add and remove devices that are turned on or off while K3b is running (for example usb or firewire devices).

K3b 0.12 also features some interesting changes for developers and artists

* K3b 0.12 has a highly improved DCOP interface which allows for some nice scripting.
* I enhanced the theming support. All the pictures now have proper names and themes can be installed and removed from the GUI. There is also a little K3b Theme Howto which should help a lot when creating a theme for K3b.
* K3b is now split into three parts:
o libk3bdevice provides the low level device handling and detection including an implementation of big parts of the MMC standard.
o libk3b provides all one needs to write CDs and DVDs along with all the project types but without all the GUI elements used in k3b.
o k3b itself, the main application providing the user friendly GUI we all know.
This allows other applications to link against the k3b libs to simply include CD/DVD writing support.
Be aware that the API of both libk3bdevice and libk3b are highly unstable and I cannot even guarantee source compatibility before the 1.0 release. So if you want to use one of the libs it might be best to link them statically for now.

Important information for translators
First of all: thanks for all your work to make K3b understandable for the whole world. Smile
Beginning with K3b 0.12 there will be a stable branch of K3b and the translations. That means that I will not only create bugfix releases of the 0.12 branch but also of the translations. There will be no new strings in 0.12.x versions though. I will upload a little document regarding the stable translations soon.



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2024 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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K3b 0.12.1 released

K3b 0.12.1 fixes some compile problems that did not occure on my system (obiously Wink

I also updated the translations: Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl), Punjabi (pa)


http://k3b.plainblack.com/download



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2024 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Germ wrote:
18.06.2005
K3b 0.12.1 released

K3b 0.12.1 fixes some compile problems that did not occure on my system (obiously Wink



yeah, I had one of those compile problems Laughing I'm happy they got it fixed fast Smile



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