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Monkeys Audio 4.01 Beta 1

Posted by Sachin Garg on 22nd January 2006 | Permanent Link

The Lossless Audio Blog: There is finally some activity in the development of Monkey’s Audio. A new beta has been released and the only portion that is still in beta is the user interface. The compression and decompression is fully stable.

This update comes after almost more than a year.

Changes

* New user interface
* New interface supports external codecs using simple XML configuration scripts
* Changed: MACDll.dll is unified to include SDK, Winamp & CoolEdit support in one component
* Fixed: Corrupt / invalid APEv2 tags could cause problems in some cases
* Fixed: APL creation could use track boundaries that were off by 1/44100th of a second in some cases
* Fixed: APL creation would not properly report errors when the CUE file didn’t point to an existing APE file
* Fixed: In very rare cases, decoding an old APE file could cause an invalid decompression error
* Fixed: When converting from APE -> APE, the APEv2 tag could get appended as WAV data to the new file

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