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2019-11-21: wavbreaker 0.13

A new version of wavbreaker is out with some build system fixes and with a CPU-hogging fix for Moodbar generation:

• Improve support for older compiler versions (patch by Jan Beich, PR#6)
• Fix a crashing bug related to multi-threading and UI rendering (Fixes #7)
• Add snapcraft.yaml
• Fix CPU usage during Moodbar generation
• Build Flatpak package in releases

You can download the source tarball from our download page or download the wavbreaker package in supported distributions.

2019-11-17: wavbreaker 0.12

Here it is, the refreshed release of wavbreaker for Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows:

• Redesigned interface based on the GNOME 3 UI
• Upgrade toolkit from GTK+2 to GTK3
• Switch from GNU autotools to the Meson Build system
• Support for opening and cutting MP3 files using mpg123
• Single, cross-platform audio output based on libao
• Fixed Moodbar support (for newer versions of the utility)
• Improved mouse interaction with the sample waveform display
• Support for CUE sheet export
• New wavgen utility to generate test files
• Drop dependency on libxml2, use GKeyFile from glib
• Support for cutting very long (longer than 9 hours) MP3 files
• Port rendering code from GdkPixmap to Cairo
• Updated translations: French and Portuguese

You can download the source tarball from our download page or download the wavbreaker package in supported distributions.

2019-11-07: Bug fixes and Gtk3 port

The Github repo (see below) now contains a port to GTK+3 and various bug fixes and improvements. It still uses some deprecated APIs (GTK+3 vs GTK+2), but once that is cleaned up and fixed, maybe it's time to do another release?

2016-01-27: Git development tree

Some updates (MP3 cutting support, libao support for Linux, OS X and Windows) are available in Git here:

• https://github.com/thp/wavbreaker

2013-03-22: Ten Years of wavbreaker

It has now been ten years since Timothy first announced wavbreaker to the world. We've come a long way since then, and the current version (0.11) is now in most distro's repositories, giving you easy access to wave file breaking on Linux :)

2012-01-14: wavbreaker 0.11

It has been a few years since the last release, but wait no more, because a new release of wavbreaker is out. This release combines all of the patches that have been sleeping in the SVN repo since the last release, and also includes a new translation into Spanish by Ricardo Mones from Debian's patchset. Here's an overview of the changes that went into this release:

• About dialog code now uses gtk_show_about_dialog
• Replace deprecated GTK+ functions with current ones
• Save and restore main window position
• Add check/uncheck context menu entries, jump to cursor
• Time offset controls on main window
• Get rid of "sample_get_playing" (code duplication)
• Fix segfault when pressing Ctrl+S twice (reported by Avuton Olrich)
• Added Spanish translation by Ricardo Mones (from Debian's patchset)

You can download the source tarball from our download page or download the wavbreaker package in supported distributions.

If you do have patches that should go into a future wavbreaker release, please get in touch and submit the patch for inclusion :)

2008-06-02: wavbreaker 0.10

We are proud to announce yet another nice wavbreaker release. This release features support for the PulseAudio sound server, support for 24-bit audio (this is currently limited to OSS and ALSA) and some other minor fixes. Here are the changes:

• PulseAudio support (by thp)
• Better driver selection
• Fix largefile issues in sample.c (Patch by Avuton Olrich)
• Add the correct GPL text for "COPYING" (thanks to Dave Maley)
• Support for loading TOC files into wavbreaker
• Add support for 24-bit audio (ALSA and OSS) (Patch by pigiron)

You can download the source tarball from our download page or download the wavbreaker package in supported distributions.

2007-11-19: wavbreaker 0.9

After four months since 0.8.1, this release adds support for Moodbars, improved handling of RAW audio files, a new Cairo-based file name overlay and some usability improvements. Of couse, we've also fixed some bugs that exist in previous versions of wavbreaker. If you had problems with ALSA-based playback, wavbreaker 0.9 should make ALSA playback work again.

New and improved features

• Support for generating and displaying Moodbars (suggested by José Jorge)
• RAW audio support for both little- and big-endian RAW files
• Cairo-based cursor/play markers and filename labels in sample view
• Usability: Conditionally disable main window buttons; add dialog window titles
• Sample view scrollable with the mouse wheel (suggested by José Jorge)
• Status bar text revised and internationalized
• "Open file" dialog starts in the current file's directory
• Updated translations: German, French and Portuguese

Bug fixes, stability and performance improvements

• Best-attempt loading of truncated wave files (override header's size)
• Fix ALSA underrun bug and use "default" ALSA device
• Scrolling code is now less CPU-intensive
• Reset "Play/Stop" action when playback finishes

You can download the source tarball from our download page or download the wavbreaker package in supported distributions.

2007-10-12: Moodbar support

Based on an idea by José Jorge, wavbreaker now supports displaying a Moodbar by using an audio analyzer to generate a graphical representation of the "mood" of an audio file. This should help wavbreaker users in spotting track break positions for live recordings.

Progress dialog for the "moodbar" tool

To use the moodbar function, you need to install the moodbar package, which is available in Debian lenny (current testing) and Ubuntu Gutsy. You can also install the moodbar tool from source from Amarok's Moodbar website. Moodbar depends on the GStreamer framework, so be sure to install the GStreamer development files if you compile from source.

Moodbar, displayed in wavbreaker's main window

Support for Moodbar files is already available through wavbreaker's Subversion repository and will be included in the next release of wavbreaker.

2007-09-23: Support for raw audio improved

If you are watching our commit updates closely, you will have noticed that we have cleaned up the interface a bit (disable items when no file is opened, etc..) and also improved support for opening raw audio files without wave header.

Depending on how you generate the raw audio data (CD extraction, arecord, ...) the byte order of the raw file will differ. wavbreaker will now ask you which byte order you would like to use to read the raw audio file, so it should be easy to open and break files without wave header now.

2007-07-07: Fixed 0.8.1 tarball

The tarball on SF.net had some wrong files in it which prevented a successful install run. This has been fixed now. If you've downloaded the 0.8.1 tarball already, please re-download from SF.net's mirrors. This should make things work again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

2007-07-06: wavbreaker 0.8.1

This release fixes three bugs that have surfaced since the last release in May and also adds a silence-based seeking function.

• Check for NULL before closing the alsa device
• Close (old) sample file the correct way (Fixes #1720210)
• Only allow changing driver when not playing audio (Fixes: #1713979)
• New feature: Silence seeking with config menu

Packages will be built soon, the source can be downloaded from our download page.

2007-06-14: wavbreaker now available in Fedora 7

Dave Maley writes to inform us that version 0.8 of wavbreaker has been pushed as an update for Fedora 7. As Fedora 7 is no longer split between Core and Extras, this means that wavbreaker is now included as part of the base Fedora distro.

2007-05-10: wavbreaker 0.8

This release is based on the patchsets from 2006 and 2007 and also includes a new wavmerge GUI and i18n support.

• New wavmerge gui
• German, French and Portuguese translations
• New icons, sample display and colors
• Large file support (>2GB)
• Summary wav display is now draggable
• Manpages
• Support for load/save offsets from/to textfiles
• ... and much more

2007-05-05: New translations, Wave Merge GUI

We are currently preparing the 0.8 release of wavbreaker. This release will include all changes and features from Thomas' development release improvements (the 0.7.x series of releases), new translations (French and Portuguese by Jose Jorge) and a GUI dialog for merging wave files. Timothy is currently adding a progress indicator to the wave file merging dialog, and after that we should be ready to roll out a new release.

In the meantime, you can help us by testing the code in our Subversion repository at SourceForge. You can also have a peek at our CIA.vc stats page.

2007-04-23: Moved to SourceForge

I created a sourceforge.net project for wavbreaker to accomodate multiple developers.

2007-04-22: wavbreaker 0.7.10

This release supports saving and loading of track break offsets to and form text files, fixes some bugs and greys out disabled track breaks.

• Support for load/save offsets from/to textfiles
• Draw track breaks not to be written in gray color
• Fix drawing, dirname and widget_show_all bugs

2007-04-21: wavbreaker 0.7.9

This release adds manpages for wavbreaker, wavmerge and wavinfo.

2007-04-08: wavbreaker 0.7.8

Merged patches from Avuton Olrich, updated German translation and re-structured main menu and toolbars.

• Add filters to open wave file dialog (*.wav)
• Add icons to popup menus (list view and sample display)
• Add configuration option and menu item to hide the toolbar
• Re-structure main menu and toolbars
• Updated German translation

2007-03-25: wavbreaker 0.7.7

This is just a small bugfix release that fixes about dialog close errors and an error with the view position on playback stop.

2007-03-22: wavbreaker 0.7.6

New icons for menu and window border sizes.

• New icons: 16, 22, 24 and 48px sizes
• Updated program description in about dialog

2007-03-12: wavbreaker 0.7.5

Still same day, yet another release.

• Enable support for large files (>2GB) and compiler warnings
• Clean up unused code and warnings in source tree
• Added desktop entry: wavbreaker.desktop

2007-03-12: wavbreaker 0.7.4

Same day, another release.

• Better progress windows for read/write dialogs
• New-style toolbar buttons (only enabled on file open)
• Sample colors are now shaded (looks much better)
• Merged "Play" and "Stop" buttons into a "Play/Stop" button
• Move around widgets in the main window for better usability

2007-03-12: wavbreaker 0.7.3

This release adds i18n support and a new preferences dialog.

• Add release target to generate a release tarball
• Basic i18n support and German translation
• New, cleaned-up preferences dialog
• Message windows now use GtkMessageDialog

2007-03-11: wavbreaker 0.7.2

This version adds loads of clean-up and re-structuring and also adds a new icon for wavbreaker.

• New autogen.sh uses new automake-1.9, can clean up
• New wavbreaker svg icon by Thomas Perl

2006-07-20: wavbreaker 0.7.1

This is an unofficial release by Thomas Perl, fixing some bugs, adding new features and improving usability in general. It has not been released as official version on the wavbreaker homepage, but the current codebase is based on Thomas' releases, so these changes are also relevant for the current version.

• Fixed two-digit etree filename bug
• Added basic argv handling
• Use GtkAboutDialog instead of hand-crafted GtkWindow
• Only do auto-rename when user requested (button)
• Use Gtk stock icons when possible
• Show filename in window title when breaking a wav file
• Re-structured main menu and toolbar
• Fixed tooltips in toolbar buttons
• Largefile support using buildscript

2006-02-26: wavbreaker 0.7

Sorry to all of you non-ALSA users. I have now added a check for ALSA in the ./configure stuff to not try and compile in ALSA if you don't have it. You can also disable ALSA or OSS with ./configure with --disable-alsa or --disable-oss or both.

• Added ./configure checking for ALSA and OSS
• Added a dialog to ask if you "really" want to quit
• Added checks for existing files and dialogs to say yes or no to overwrite the existing files

2005-06-02: wavbreaker 0.6.1

Quick bug fix for the last minute window size changes. That's what I get for throwing something in last minute. ;-)

2005-06-01: wavbreaker 0.6

Thanks to Dave Maley for testing and fixes. As well as Justin Ruggles for the TOC export feature. Oh and the various people who informed me of the 64-bit processor issues.

• ALSA support with the ability to configure ALSA or OSS use
• Added configuration option to prepend file number as opposed to append it to the file name.
• Save As dialog lets you select the directory to put the new files.
• Use the new GTK file dialogs if using gtk+-2.3 or greater.
• Export to TOC file
• Save window and pane sizes
• Added spinner widget to move the cursor marker by precise increments.
• Fixed a small bug that when deleting a track break, the durations are not updated in the list display.
• Fixed file closing bug

2004-07-11: Mailing list

I've decided to create a mailing list for announcements.

2004-07-11: wavbreaker 0.5

Thanks to Craig Bergren for finding and tracking down the bug in the sample summary display.

• Added duration to the list
• Added automatic etree style filenaming
• Added a right-click option to the sample display to jump to the cursor
• Added a right-click option to the list to jump to the selected track break
• Fixed a floating point exception bug that would crash when the sample summary was proportional to the window width
• Fixed compile error when using GCC 2.95 (bad C syntax)
• Fixed problem with autoconf/automake when not giving ./configure a prefix directory
• Fixed the directory selection. It would append the dir name twice.

2004-07-11: RPMs

RPMs are now available on Dave Maley's site. He created them and will maintain them.

2003-10-25: wavbreaker 0.4

Summary of changes:

• Added new program: wavinfo
• Added autosplit feature
• Added toggle button to use the specified outputdir or not
• Fixed a bug that would occur when reading a non-standard wav header
• Fixed a segfault error when reading mono wav files
• Fixed a problem with automake/autoconf for the images directory

2003-07-10: Official Gentoo package

wavbreaker is now in the official Gentoo portage tree under media-sound/wavbreaker.

If you are a gentoo user, like I am, you can just type emerge wavbreaker to install.

2003-06-26: wavbreaker 0.3

If there are any problems or gripes about the xml config file let me know. I can quickly make it configurable in the build if there are problems.

New features are as follows:

• Right-click on a split in the list and delete it
• Right-click in the wav display to add a break.
• Added configuration menu, the config is saved in xml format in the ~/.wavbreaker file

I have had a request for a feature that would auto-split with a given time period. Let me know what you guys think.

2003-04-04: wavbreaker 0.2

New version 0.2 is out. Check out the changelog for the details.

Any and all feedback is welcome. New features, bugs...whatever just send me an email.

2003-03-22: Initial announcement

Wavbreaker is up for the world to see!
The current version is 0.1, but is very usable.