Changelog

GWC Changelog

KNOWN ISSUE: GWC fails to open wav files with metadata; refer to the README for details.

0.22-06
Feb 17, 2023
BUGFIX: minor bugs and a crash
NEW: icon variants used with dark GTK themes

0.22-05
May 28, 2021
BUGFIX: fix various obscure bugs, crashes and failures, notably several related to batch mode.
BUGFIX: fix various bugs, crashes and failures in gwcbatch, particularly for filenames including spaces, and file extensions other than .wav (which were previously overwritten without creating a backup)
NEW: implement drag-and-drop to open a file
NEW: allow to select audio during playback (this was possible in earlier versions but the ability was lost)
NEW: allow zoom actions to stop playback
CODE: minor ui and code improvements
CODE: fix compile failure with gcc10
DOC: minor doc improvements; implement --help

0.22-04
April 16, 2019
This release is mostly fixes and improvements for osx packaging.
Note that the version number has jumped to -04 because I had several attempts at creating an osx package, using up some numbers, and I don't want to create confusion between them and newer releases.
(I figured it was a good idea to use the same three numbers in CFBundleVersion, but actually it doesn't support 0 as the first number. So in future I should instead append something like "+build1".)

BUGFIX: playback mono files at correct speed with pulseaudio backend.
NEW: warn the user if the current working directory is not writable, as that causes big problems.
CODE: allow building with pulseaudio backend on osx, as the coreaudio backend is broken (playback does not work in the previous OSX packages).
CHANGED BEHAVIOUR: on osx write files to sensible locations.
DOC: document optional dependencies (LAME and vorbis-tools).

0.22-01
August 04, 2017
Minor build/packaging type fixes.

0.22
July 18, 2017
This release is by Alister Hood.  Jeff Welty has advised via email that he has not used GWC for several years and does not have time currently to look at any issues with it.
This release is a port from the old GNOME libraries to plain GTK2 and does not include major changes in functionality.  There is plenty of bugfixing and cleanup of how things work, but much of it will only be apparent in less typical "corner cases".
A more detailed summary of the changes is below.  For full details refer to the git commit log at https://github.com/AlisterH/gwc
Patches or pull requests are of course encouraged!

BUGFIX: apply Debian patch to prevent crash on x86_64.
BUGFIX: apply Debian patch to build successfully if using clang.
BUGFIX: solve various problems with ogg and mp3 encoding.
BUGFIX: don't freeze when stopping alsa playback (please report if you do still experience and freezes).
NEW: on Mac OSX integrate with the system "application menu", dock and basic keyboard shortcuts.
NEW: support for gtk-can-change-accels = 1 (in ~/.gtkrc-2.0).
CODE: reimplemented the gui to use plain gtk2, removing the dependencies on obsolete Gnome libraries.  This also fixes a number of minor gui bugs and modernises things like file choosers.
CODE: various other gui bugfixes and improvements.
CODE: follow more standards for where we install files.
CODE: various fixes to the build system, including actually installing to --prefix.
CODE: general cleanup including removing duplicated or unnecessary files, fixing typos etc.
DOC: remove the old help manual in favour of the quickstart guide, and show the help without requiring a GNOME environment.
CHANGED CONFIG FILE: the location has changed - typically it was ~/.gnome2/gnome_wave_cleaner and is now ~/.config/gtk-wave-cleaner/gwc.conf
The format has not changed so it is possible for you to move an old file to the new location.
CHANGED BEHAVIOUR: Undo files and clipboard data are now saved in $XDG_CACHE_HOME if possible (rather than the current working directory).  Undo files are saved in unique subdirectories so multiple instances of gwc won't interfere with each other.  The clipboard is shared between all gwc instances unless you override $XDG_CACHE_HOME (or it does not exist).
CHANGED NAME: GWC no longer depends on the deprecated GNOME libs, does not depend on GTK3, and is not very "Gnomish".  Including Gnome in the name is therefore misleading, so the full name has been changed to "Gtk Wave Cleaner".
RENAMED EXECUTABLE: there is at least one other project named gwc, so to avoid packaging clashes the executable is renamed to gtk-wave-cleaner.  Symlink or alias it as gwc if the long name bothers you ;)

0.21-19
Feb 2, 2013
BUGFIX: warning on opening audio device incorrectly displayed pulse audio message when neither alsa or pulse audio was being used
BUGFIX: Encoding to ogg or mp3 has always been broken, can only encode to once during GWC session.  Fixed by using named pipe
NEW: A simple front end for encoding to MP3s.  Only a -V xx encoding option,
but can have default artist and album tags now, and enter trackname when
encoding the selection.  Kind of klunky user interface, but it works.

0.21-18
Feb 1, 2013
BUGFIX: pulse audio using pulse_simple_new was incorrectly checking error return
Apr 10, 2012
BUGFIX: length of tracks on cdrdao toc file was too short by 1 sample

0.21-17
Apr 8, 2012
CODE: Remove executable permissions from undo and .gwc files, thanks quadrispro
BUGFIX: Alsa device was not opened correctly with interleaved samples
BUGFIX: Create cdrdao toc file not using marker pairs was badly broken.

0.21-16
Mar 17, 2011
CODE: Better implementation of ALSA driver for detecting number of processed frames

0.21-15
Mar 17, 2011
BUGFIX: Configure script was not working for ALSA
CODE: Small upgrade for alsa driver, should attach even when other apps have alsa open

0.21-14
Mar 16, 2011
BUGFIX: Configure script was out of date with regards to alsa, pulseaudio.  Fixed
COPYRIGHT: Some important copyright notices from the cephes library now included in i0.c i1.c and chbevl.c
CODE: added shortcut keys '3' which moves view forward by 1 revolution of 33 1/3 rpm, '2' moves view back

0.21-13
CODE: Better information feedback when libsndfile fails to open file
BUGFIX: pulse audio playback does not register completion
BUGFIX: Makefile.in did not have dependency for audio_pa.c

0.21-12
NEW: Alpha code -- pulse audio audio driver by default

0.21-11
BUGFIX: Amplify had a bug when only amplifying a single channel.
NEW: Alpha code -- trying to read MP3's and OGG file types.
NEW: Experimental -- defining click detector in terms of decibels rather than the previous unintuitive values
NEW: Ifdefs for DENOISE_TRY_ONE_SAMPLE.  Generally a horrendously bad idea to denoise using a window width of 1.
EXPERIMENTAL: Started playing around with code to restore harmonic content on very old recordings (aka harmonic exciters...)
*Many* improvements from Michael Gruhn follow:
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BUGFIX: disallow closing while file is being processed (preventing segfault)
BUGFIX: long filenames handled better
BUGFIX: removed some buffer overruns in sprintfs and probably avoided some more
BUGFIX: disallow closing while processing in batch mode (preventing segfault)
BUGFIX: return EXIT_SUCCESS on success instead of 1 for better batch integration
NEW: allow selection of hpf declick for batch processing
NEW: end keyword to set stop_position to end of file for batch processing
NEW: usage message explaining batch mode for batch processing

0.21-10
Mar 22, 2009
CODE: leave click marks option in declicking
BUGFIX: biquad fixed -- 
BUGFIX: cdrdao output was unnecessarily constrained by blocksizes

0.21-09
Dec 19, 2008
CODE: undo needed to use off_t in lseek calls (Thanks Dave Hill, from Feb 2007)
BUGFIX: alsa playback would at times crash, fixed

0.21-08
Feb 23, 2007
CODE:   Add info for setting device in settings->miscellaneous
Feb 21, 2007
BUGFIX: Big endian machines had playback problem, using patch from Paul Brossier fixes the problem
Jan 12, 2007
BUGFIX: Paul Sanders found declick bug in get_hpf(), which is probably why some clicks were not getting repaired.
CODE:   Paul Sanders sent a speed improvement which makes declick run about 80 percent faster

0.21-07
Oct 20, 2006
BUGFIX: Ok. I messed up.  The save changes stuff on exit was broken.  Hopefully fixed now :-)

0.21-06
Feb 8, 2006
BUGFIX: In biquad.c the filter parameters could be incorrectly displayed with the defaults rather than
        as saved in preferences (Thanks Simon Lavender-Jones)
BUGFIX: In declick.c, stderr variable changed to std_err to avoid conflicts with stderr file pointer.
BUGFIX: In audio_util.c, make sure n_samples is > 1 when on audio file open.
BUGFIX: Make install was not installing the help files in the proper place
CODE:   Manual declick shortcut changed from CTRL-A to ALT-A (to avoid conflict with select all)
CODE:   When exiting, or closing audio file, user can committed changes, undo changes or cancel.
CODE:   shortcut "a" now appends to cdrdao toc file only the selected region, not everything between all markers.
NEW:    Incorporated tap_reverb algorithm, uses internally stored settings if external ~/.reverbed is not found
NEW:	Added many functions to batch capability

0.21-05
Jan 20, 2006
CODE:   zooming in on a selection of only 1 sample gives a 2 second zoom (thanks David Gesswein)
BUGFIX: opening a new audio file would corrupt the previously opened audio file's *.gwc (thanks David Gesswein)
BUGFIX: CDTEXT output for cdrdao improved (thanks David Gesswein)
BUGFIX: The Lorber-Hoeldrich algorithms had a big bug, fixed.
CODE:   new expand selection to markers feature (thanks David Gesswein for the idea)
CODE:   using rectangular window on all pre-sampling.
CODE:   configure script suggests installation of libsnd-devel package.

0.21-04
Nov 10, 2005
BUGFIX: In function declick_with_sensitivity in gwc.c repair_clicks variable needed to be set before start_save_undo.
	(Thanks Simon Lavender-Jones)
BUGFIX: In audio_alsa, the snd_pcm_delay call could return an underrun code (-EPIPE) which means the handle needs reset.
BUGFIX: In denoise.c, the blackman windowing algorithm implementation was incorrect.
CODE:   In audio_alsa.c, make minimum size audio device buffer 4096, as a multiple of the reported frame size. 
CODE:   Started experimenting with Wolfe & Godsill noise removal process.  Not well understood yet...

0.21-03
July 15, 2005
DOC: Error in documentation for FFT Strong Declick Sensitivity fixed
BUGFIX: Failure to open an audio file would create near infinite looping of warning messages
BUGFIX: set_playback_cursor_position now uses audio_state == AUDIO_IS_PLAYBACK to determine if the audio is playing.

0.21-02
Feb 3, 2005
CODE: second attempt at merging in Rob's OSX stuff
CODE: getting the meschach headers copied up (properly!) to the gwc source directory

0.21-01
Feb 2, 2005
CODE: First attempt at merging in Rob's OSX stuff

0.20-10b
April 27, 2005
BUGFIX: Fixed left,right variable references in declick.c when using the old FFTW libs(lines 575 ...)

0.20-10a
April 13, 2005
BUGFIX: Fixed p variable in declick.c when using the old FFTW libs(lines 470, 490)
BUGFIX: Biquad.c needed a prototype

0.20-10
Feb 1, 2005
CODE: IIR high/low/band/notch filtering, with known public domain source code
CODE: FFT click detection
CODE: Can limit frequency range applied in denoising (experimental)

0.20-09
Dec 28, 2004
BUGFIX: Markers could be drawn at inappropriate places
BUGFIX: Selection in areas with 2 markers w/in 10 pixels would jump to first marker.
BUGFIX: Playing audio could freeze with change make in 0.20-08
BUGFIX: Makefile didn't recognize --prefix as passed to configure script. Thanks to Thiemo Gehrke
CODE: Thiemo Ghehrke did nice cleanup on config.in and Makefile.in
CODE: Can generate pink/white noise (useful if you don't have a good noise sample for denoising)
CODE: Adding IIR lowpass filtering
CODE: Adding left/right mixing functions to amplify
CODE: Expanding the main window vertically now only expands the audio view, not the text at the bottom.
      -- thanks to joseph daly

0.20-08
Dec 14, 2004
BUGFIX: Increased stack limit to 6 megabytes, some denoising ops needed this or they would segfault
BUGFIX: Undo skip,save,cancel dialog window was not destroyed properly
BUGFIX: Declick would try to declick outside the current selection window
CODE: Using an updated meschach library from http://www.math.uiowa.edu/~dstewart/meschach/
CODE: Attempting to stop playback without generating artificial "clicks" by gracefully closing audio device.
CODE: Estimate large gap actually works now :-)
CODE: Insert silence asks for confirmation

0.20-07
August 2, 2004
BUGFIX: Declicking errors via meschach singular matrices could generate too many errors, now fixed. (stat.c)
BUGFIX: Warning message about fftw libs not found clarified to indicate fftw 3.x libs not found

0.20-06
August 2, 2004
BUGFIX: Fixed configure.in to work properly with gnome2 development libs (removed old GNOME_INIT stuff).
CODE: Fixed warning messages in default typecast in markers.c

0.20-05
July 29, 2004
BUGFIX: Uhhhh, errrr, Really fixed configure error complaining about needing libsndfile 2.x

0.20-04
May 21, 2004
BUGFIX: Fixed configure error complaining about needing libsndfile 2.x

April 1, 2004
BUGFIX: audio_alsa.c, audio_device_open did not open user defined device.
0.20-03
April 8, 2004
BUGFIX: Hanning-overlap-add method would alter channel not selected for denoising.
April 1, 2004
BUGFIX: audio_alsa.c, audio_device_open did not open user defined device.

0.20-02
March 5, 2004
CODE:Frank Freudenberg supplied cut & paste code for audio
CODE:Rob Fair adding option for selecting audio device
CODE:Jeff Welty Gnome-2.x -ified GWC
CODE:Lindsay Harris tracked down segfault issue with denoise

0.19-10
September 26, 2003
CODE:Frank Freudenberg supplied audio device abstraction, so we now have alsa and oss drivers
CODE:Bill Jetzer supplied the means for setting up GWC in batch mode.

0.19-9
September 6, 2003
BUGFIX: windowed and out arrays needed inside fft_remove_noise regardless of HAVE_FFTW3

0.19-8
CODE: Thanks to Frank Freudenberg, we now can compile with FFTW 3.x libs
CODE: Worked on the online help system, not complete but getting there.
BUGFIX: Hopefully nailed the "declick until end of file" crash bug.

0.19-5
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August 21, 2003
CODE: Streamlined encoding_selection code in gwc.c
CODE: Added progress meter in the encoding process

0.19-4
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Added interface (frontend) to lame/oggenc for MP3 and Ogg encodings of selected waveform portions.
Fixed issue with warnings if closing pop up windows via X in corner.
Fixed issues with performing tasks with no file opened causing segfault.
Fixed issue of trying to play when sonogram is being built.
Fixed issue of trying to display sonogram(or do anything) while file is being played.
Added some fixes to improve speed of display/amplify and some other functions.
(do not cast if not needed and when you must cast do it wisely. See http://www.mega-nerd.com/FPcast/
by Eric De Castro Lopo Author of libsndfile API).

0.19-3
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April 7, 2003
CODE: Lame libs incorporated, to save selection as MP3 (Thanks Charles!)
BUGFIX: The Lorber-Hoeldrich and Ephram denoise algorithms had a small bug, fixed.

0.19-2
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Mar 1, 2003
CODE: Determined cause of some libsndfile config checks failing, added notice about /etc/ld.so.conf

Feb 17, 2003
CODE: Fixed netbsd bug, and a configuration bug (now copying machine.h from meschach after meschach build).

0.19-1
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Feb 16, 2003
CODE: Faster audio redraws, added song markers (thanks to David Gesswein).  Also started netbsd-izing

0.18
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November, 2002
CODE: Made the markers persistent, and can now have up to 200 markers

0.17-6
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October 29, 2002
BUGFIX: Detect only checkbox now doesn't toggle on/off when pressing spacebar after it has focus
CODE: Improved click detection speed.

0.17-5
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September 29, 2002
BUGFIX: Check for FFT_SIZE < n_noise_samples.
BUGFIX: Sonogram could crash in some cases.
CODE: Pop a dialogue warning if failed reading audio data.
NEW: 'a' key creates, or appends cdrdao.toc, with info about the audio between the 2 markers. Can be used with cdrdao.

0.17-4
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September 24, 2002
BUGFIX: fixed is_valid_audio function, sndfile point was not being set...

0.17-3
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September 21, 2002
NEW:    Hanning Window with overlap-add implemented.  Much, much faster...
BUGFIX: Denoise window and suppression method are no longer mishandled by the preferences dialogue.
BUGFIX: Audio files no longer need to end in .wav extension, must only be recognized by libsndfile

0.17-2
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September 15, 2002
BUGFIX: The Lorber - Hoeldrich denoise algorithm had a bug, fixed.  Results will be greatly improved.
CODE: Now integrated with libsndfile
CODE: Left and right channels now display unique levels at all zoom levels (previously the average
      was displayed when the compressed audio image was used
CODE: Amplify can now feather in the amplification amount, this prevents creating discontinuities
      in signal values at the start or end of the amplification region.

0.16-5
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September 7, 2002
BUGFIX: Changed AC_INIT in configure.in from "gwc" to "gwc.c", so configure script would work properly

0.16-4
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August 24, 2002
BUGFIX: Undo improperly assumed a region was highlighted, resulting in mysterious undo results.

0.16-3
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July 31, 2002
BUGFIX: Playback was hosed on some audio cards.  This hopefully will fix it...
CODE: Icons now appear on menus (though they need spacing...)

0.16-2 (not released)
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DOC: How to clear markers
CODE: Warn before saving selection over existing file
DOC: Better description of manual click repair versus click detection and repair
CODE: Declicking information now appears in status bar instead of popup
CODE: Select between markers (with keypress 'm') -- still needs a button
CODE: 's' key selection time is configurable with prefs->misc
CODE: 'z' key zooms in on selection

0.16-1 (not released)
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CODE: Added undo button to toolbar

0.15
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June 17, 2002
CODE: Fixed annoyance -- selection didn't select enough samples on the right side of selection
CODE: Now using 2 toolbars, with no text
GRAPHICS: Cool icons from Ian Leonard
EXPERIMENTAL: Can declick in "batch" mode.

0.14
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May 14, 2002
CODE: Massive speedup of "Save selection as"

0.13
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April 27, 2002
CODE: Cleaned up all of the warning messages generated during the compile, almost all were unused variables...
CODE: Improved buffering of audio during playback, finer resolution also achieved on playback.

0.12
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April 21, 2002
BUGFIX: Lorber denoise method was always used, regardless of parameter settings. This bug was introduced in 0.06-4
CODE: Denoise preferences moved to Settings menu, Dialogue box for denoise made more meaningful

0.11
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April 18, 2002
BUGFIX: Memory leak in the delicking algorithm, it was partly in the meschach package...
NEW: The memory mapped mode of accessing audio files is deprecated, file size is no longer a limitation, swap space usage is way down...

0.10
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April 15, 2002
KNOWN PROBLEM: Still a memory leak somewhere in the delicking algorithm, it may be in the meschach package...
NEW: Declick sensitivity setting available from Settings drop-down menu
NEW: Iterate in declick -- will iterate in delick until no more repairs are made in a delick window
CODE: Some dialog widget functions are now in dialog.c, 

0.09
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April 13, 2002
BUGFIX: Memory leak in declicking algorithm, could eat up a few hundred megabytes declicking a 15 minute track
BUGFIX: The idle function was consuming large amounts of CPU, this is completely reworked.
BUGFIX: Markers were previously reset to -1, selecting near the start of song would snap to -1, now set to large negative

0.08
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April 10, 2002
BUGFIX: Save selection to same file as current file would core dump, this is now disallowed.
BUGFIX: The Lorber-Hoeldrich noise reduction method had an error, fixed.  No perceptible difference in sound output.
NEW: Ephraim and Malah's noise suppression method (1984) was added.
NEW: configure now works with fft libs for Suse-linux

0.07
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April 1, 2002
NEW: Created gwc.spec file for generation of binary rpm
BUGFIX: Fixed bug in declick, unrepaired clicks now appear highlighted in red

0.06-2
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BUGFIX: Fixed buffering problem with audio on playback systems with heavy loads.

0.06-1
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NEW:  Can now have the declicking algorithm only identify clicks, not repair them
NEW:  Hitting the "s" key, stops playback, and highlights the last 1/2 second of audio played
NEW:  GWC remembers the last directory where a wavfile was opened from.