My new pet project: ChapterX. About a month ago I got email. Author was asking how much effort would it take to code Chapter Tool replacement. My estimates were “one day or so” and since this idea crossed my mind before I decided to start. Turned out – my estimates were overly optimistic (aren’t they always that way?). In one day I coded chapters support and then hit a roadblock: artwork and links. It took couple more days toying with libmp4v2 to get artwork working. So far that’s it. Chapters and artwork, links are still to be implemented. Although all the plumbing is there, in the file – my ipod touch just refuses to show any links. But I hope it’s something I will figure out later.
And now latest version of ChapterX available for download: ChapterX 0.3.
It seems that Audio Converter Services in OS X 10.7 has nasty bug: internal state got corrupted if application sets bitrate frequently. Even if bitrate value is the same.
Technical details aside – 1.15 is out and it contains workaround for this bug. Audiobook Binder should not crash now on Lion. New version is available via autoupdate. For those who use App Store build: review will take some time (as always) so I apologize for the inconvenience.
Audiobook Binder seems to have some problems running on Lion. If you spotted a crash or any unusual behavior – let me know, drop a line at
info@bluezbox.com
Thanks
Oh, and since 1.13 Audiobook Binder got new logo. Using iPod nano image violated Apple’s policy sop in order to get new version approved in App Store previous logo has been changed.
1.14 is out. Usually it takes more time to prepare release, but I thought several fixes for crash-bugs worth to be released early. Changes:
- Stability fixes (application no longer crashes on drag’n‘drop)
- Try to guess author/title when files are dragged on window
- Add dock icon progress bar that displays overall progress
- Fix abbinder crash
