Music Annotator Changelog

From Clam

2006-05-08 v0.3.1

Review feedback release

• Using CLAM 0.91 (CVS)
• Instant views are managed as plugins and can be usable in any suited attribute which can be selected from the user interface. (Views/Add instant view)
• Instant views optimizations to avoid KeySpace flickering
• Fix: Artifacts on the segmentation editor view (the wave faded out on some regions)
• Fix: The extractor console now keeps the aspect of the output
• Fix: Crash when a descriptor load failed and the audio is longer
• BocaClient:
  • The BocaClient GUI is now a binary frontend to the python script (to avoid using PyQt3 with qt3 licensing problems in windows)
  • Errors when downloading avoid the Annotator to be launched
• Windows distribution:
  • Icons for the applications
  • Binary distribution of some python scripts by using Py2exe
  • Dynamic libraries are bundled with the installer to avoid problems
  • BOCA task are binded with the BOCA client
• Credits and acknoledgements updated on the About dialog.

2006-04-30 v0.3.0

Final SIMAC review release

• Using CLAM 0.91 (CVS)
• Ported to QT4 using the new vmqt widgets
• Build system moved to scons
• Workflow reworked: Projects from scratch are not only possible but the convenient way.
• Error conditions on load failures are better managed
• The project documentation now allows to give some annotation guidelines to the BOCA users.
• Configurable extractor, schema and project documentation
• Instant Views: Tonnetz and KeySpace
• New types:
  • FloatArray type to represent spectrums, pcp's, histograms...
  • FrameDivision: it may be the parent of a 'frame level' scope
• Extractors:
  • New extractor: Chord extractor
  • All provided extractors follow the same commandline conventions
• Minor adaptations to the BOCA client to the new services

2006-02-07 v0.2

• using CLAM 0.90.0
• New segment editor:
  • Different annotation restrictions depending on the schema. Right now:
    • Continuous segmentation (no gap)
    • Discontinous segmentation (gaps but not overlaps)
  • Consistent dragging
  • Tooltips are faster to appear
  • Tooltips say just the position of the hovered element instead the cursor position.
  • Hovering highlights the limit
• Optimizations on the song switching and on the display
• Inserting and removing segments now has its reflexion on the pool
• Playing the wav and the auralization on different channels.
• Description schema browser
• Now, viable projects can be built from the interface
• A Boca task manager in python is provided