jd3lib-2005-04-alpha4 
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Released 2005.04.27 under LGPL
Copyright 2005 by Andreas Grunewald
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jd3lib/
gruni (at) users (dot) sourceforge (dot) net


Release notes:

Thanks for downloading the alpha4 release.
This is the first actual release for 2005, I haven't put much effort in new
features during the ast 4 months  because I focussed on the ARClibWriter
application. This resultet in a constant tweaking of the jd3lib and updated 
versions have been released with the ARClibWriter preview editions. At the 
moment there are no know bugs in reading ID3v1 and ID3v2.3 Tags except the 
lacking for i18n. I refactored a few parts to make  the adding of support for 
ID3v2.2 and ID3v2.4 easier. And that will be the next development step reading 
the basic Frames of ID3v2.2 and 2.4. Writing of Tags will follow, the basic 
features needed for writing ID3tags are already available it just needs some 
more tests and some modifications o that Tags aren't destroyed if something 
goes wrong. Also adding tags to a file, removing and copying will be 
implemented.
The Improvements of the ARClibWriter were the main focus of the last months. 
The GUI has been put into an extra package and as time comes, the rest of the 
ARClib stuff will also be "outsourced" so follow the ARCLibWriter releases for 
more informations about this.
Java 1.4 is still the choice but I will slowy start to evaluate some JDK 1.5 
features. The switch will occure when it is absolutely neccecary.
I'm looking forward to any emails and replies. 

Gruni


Changelog:
alpha4
-the arclib relies on entagged because of WMA support so entagged-audioformats 
 are included now
-internal structure has been refactored to make the jd3lib even more modular.
-arclib support has been dramaticly improved
-a lot of other stuff but no real new featuers for ID3 tagging.
alpha3
-added reading support for ID3v1 Tags
-added general MetaData Interface to access ID3v1 and ID3v2 the same way for the basic Frames
 like Artist, Title, Album, Year, Genre, Track and Comment

-improved reading fo files by fully using the java.nio
-The ArcLibrary now parses ID3v2 and v1 tags and is prepared to read WMA and other AudioFile MetaData.
-and a lot of bugfixes and development under the hood to much to mention.

