awesome-wav 1.0.1

I am pleased to announce the release of awesome-wav 1.0.1. This is primarily a bug-fix release, fixing issues with wav file validation and a few other random minor bugs. This release also includes the somehow forgotten --version argument.

the argument processor was also back-ported from the under-development 1.1/1.2/1.5 code as it is a little more flexible and includes some other various code modifications that have no effect on the actual operation of the program.

cmake

I've been working on adding cmake as an option to assist with building awesome-wav. Currently the only target that works right (only been tested by me on Debian Squeeze) seems to work right at the moment.

If anyone would like to test it on mac os or windows, that would be greatly appreciated, and input on improving the CMakeLists.txt file would be appreciated as well.

How AES Encyption Works

I was doing some research a couple of days ago and I found a very nice visualization of the Rijndael Cipher. It was chosen as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.

awesome-wav 1.0.0

awesome-wav 1.0.0 has been released. It supports encoding into 8, 16, 24, and 32 bit PCM WAV files, 32 and 64 bit IEEE float WAV files, compressing the input data using zlib and data encryption with ECB AES.

Release includes 32 & 64-bit *nix binaries and 32-bit Windows binary.

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Release 1.0 Prep

We've been fighting with a couple barriers to the planned 1.0 release of awesome-wav. Currently the biggest project is setting up cmake as suggested by David Doria among other things. Hopefully the release will be ready in the next week or so.

Recent Progress

Much progress has been made towards our goal of releasing version 1.0. This week we will be cleaning up our code and making last minute checks for memory issues, stupid code issues, and possible places where our program could break. The plan for now is to release 1.0 this Saturday or Sunday, after which we will begin making more major changes.

Back from Summer

And we're back! After a long summer of very slow development we are back to developing more and are currently cleaning up the code/comments/output to ensure usability. no new features will be added from here until we 'release' version 1.0 which should be in the next week or so after we do a cleanup of code.

After that, we will begin work on the next version which will have considerably better encryption, a compression library that can be built into the executable, actual large file support, and many other nifty features.

New cool things

There was an apparent lapse in our commits, but that was because I was working hard on a major code addition. Moments ago I made the last change that marks the addition of support for 256 bit AES encryption of data before being encoded into the wav file. I've been working on testing it and so far it has not been failing. I have also tested for memory leaks and we are happily free of them for the time being.

RCOS Update

Yesterday Tim and I gave a presentation at RCOS outlining our past and future progress on Awesome-Wav. Some new important features include: data compression, IEEE Float support, and buffering. In the future we hope to add data encryption and support for additional music formats. The slides can be found here.

Recent Updates

Since our last post we have fixed a lot of bugs in the newer parts of the code and finally totally resolved our encoding using 12 bits problems. We have implemented selecting a compression level, begun adding parts to support more kinds of wav files, and changed how we encode using four bits to a considerably faster method. Soon this method will be applied to encoding using 12 bits to make its time more comparable to the other methods.