jack (3.1.1-14) unstable; urgency=low As of this version, base_dir is no longer set in /etc/jackrc. The reason for this is that there is no standard location for sound or media files and users may be surprised to find their files in ~/jack (the previous default of base_dir). jack will now by default put the files in the current working directory. You're welcome to set base_dir in ~/.jack3rc (or /etc/jackrc) if you have a more appropriate location. -- Martin Michlmayr Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:51:32 +0000 jack (3.0.0-1) experimental; urgency=low The configuration has changed fundamentally with jack-3.0.0. There is now a system-wide configuration file /etc/jackrc and the user configuration files have been renamed to ~/.jack3rc. Further, jack now has a simple scheme to set options permanently, by adding --save to the command-line. This is the preferred way to set options, as the syntax of the jackrc file has changed. See the commented out options in /etc/jackrc for examples of useful options and how to set them. -- Michael Banck Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:30:43 +0000 jack (2.99.9-6) unstable; urgency=low jack now features a '--cddb-id' option, which lets you specify a freedb CDDB id, even though jack calculates a different one. You need to specify an ID3 genre via '-G/--id3-genre' for the freedb lookup, too. Note that this option has not been applied or even accepted upstream yet and is suspect to change in a later version. -- Michael Banck Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:52:11 +0200 jack (2.99.9-2) unstable; urgency=low Alban Browaeys has pointed out that invalid OGG Vorbis tags are produced under certain circumstances. While the OGG Vorbis specification requires that the field contents is encoded in UTF-8, jack up to 2.99.9-1 wrote an ASCII string to the field. This has been fixed in 2.99.9-2. Fortunately, you do not have to re-encode your OGG files. Rather, you can use jack's -R (rename) feature to simply update the OGG Vorbis tags. A script is supplied which takes care of this automatically. Simply change to the directory you keep your OGG files in, and run the script. For example, if your OGG files are in /media/ogg, you have to do: $ cd /media/ogg $ /usr/share/doc/jack/fix-vorbis-tags.pl -- Martin Michlmayr Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:53:22 +0100 jack (2.99.9-1) unstable; urgency=low Jack now features an undocumented option to turn off cdparanoia's --abort-on-skip option. The option's name is --I-swear-I'll-never-give-these-files-to-anyone,-including-hot-babes-TM Only use this option (if at all) when you already know that a CD will not get ripped OK, as this means that unsuccesful rips will be unnoticed. You have been warned and will continue on your own risk. -- Michael Banck Tue, 3 Sep 2002 02:26:19 +0200 jack (2.99.8-2) unstable; urgency=low It is now preferred to specify the vbr_quality rather than a bitrate. You can do this by adding vbr_quality = $QUALITY to your ~/.jackrc, $QUALITY being an integer from 0 (worst quality, smallest files) to 10 (best quality, biggest files) Average bitrates for oggenc will be around 70-100 for 0 up to 300-500 kbit/s for 10. vbr_quality = 5 (the default if you don't specify the switch in your ~/.jackrc) will be around 150-170 kbit/s. Please let me know if you get completely different bit- rates so I can tune the default. Note that lame and gogo do support this switch, too, but at least lame will have a much slimmer bandwidth for the bitrate (from 100-200 kbit/s) than oggenc. If you want to keep using the bitrate (I've been told that the quality would be inferior at the same filesize), you can switch the comments in /usr/bin/jack, line 425/426, or add a new helper section like helpers['oggenc-local'] = {'type':"encoder"[...]"""} to your ~/.jackrc(see end of auto-generated ~/.jackrc for an example) -- Michael Banck Fri, 24 May 2002 20:40:07 +0200 jack (2.99.7-4) unstable; urgency=low base_dir is now set to 'environ['HOME'] + "/jack"' (i.e. ~/jack) when a new .jackrc is created. This is in preparation for a jack menu item, so that jack does not dump the OGGs in the directory you started X from. If you upgrade, nothing should change ATM. -- Michael Banck Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:16:34 +0100 jack (2.99.7-1) unstable; urgency=low Jack-2.99.7 had a new .jackrc layout, you'll have to move your old .jackrc elsewhere and tune the newly generated one. If jack fails reading the TOC(table of contents) for your CD-drive, you can try adding toc_prog = "cdda2wav" or toc_prog = "cdparanoia" or simply toc_prog = ripper manually in your .jackrc. But beware, using this is deprecated and should be a last resort. In particular, you will lose the ability to rip CDs with data tracks, as jack no longer will be able to compare the TOCs! Please add to bug-nr. #118731 if you experience problems with your CD-drive. -- Michael Banck Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:02:20 +0000