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AACGAIN VERSION 1.4

AACgain is a modification to Glen Sawyer's mp3gain, to support AAC 
(mp4/m4a/QuickTime) files as well as mp3 files. If you are not familiar with
mp3gain, stop reading this, and go to http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net

USAGE NOTES

1. BACK UP YOUR MUSIC FILES BEFORE USING AACGAIN! THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL 
   SOFTWARE. THERE HAVE BEEN BUGS IN PAST RELEASES THAT CORRUPTED MUSIC
   FILES. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGED FILES.
2. AACGain supports files in the mp4/Quicktime file format. These files
   usually have a file extension of .mp4 or .m4a. Raw AAC files, or
   files encoded with HE-AAC/SBR are not supported.
3. DRM'ed files purchased from the iTunes music store are not supported. You
   may convert these to .m4a format by burning them to a CD-ROM and importing
   them back into iTunes, or by using one of the underground methods to
   losslessly convert them to .m4a.
4. AACGain takes the same command line options as mp3gain - no
   changes have been made to the command usage.
5. If you rename the AACGain.exe executable to mp3gain.exe, it will work 
   with the Visual Basic front-end MP3GainGUI.exe.
6. When calculating or applying album gain, you may mix aac and mp3 files
   in the same command.
7. The /t (use temp file) option is ignored for aac files. A temp file
   is always used. The mpeg4ip/mp4v2 Optimize function is used to copy the
   processed file back to the original name. Experience has shown that this
   is required for processed music files to play on the iPod Shuffle.
8. The /w (wrap) flag is ignored for aac files, since allowing an aac file
   to wrap will leave it in an unplayable state.
9. The /f (assume input file is an MPEG 2 Layer III) option is ignored
   for AAC files. If a file starts with a 'ftyp' atom, it is assumed to be
   AAC, even if /f was specified.
10. The following metadata tags will be added to your files:
     - replaygain_track_gain
     - replaygain_album_gain
     - replaygain_track_peak
     - replaygain_album_peak
     - replaygain_track_minmax
     - replaygain_album_minmax
     - replaygain_undo
    These are all free-form metadata tags (moov.udta.meta.ilst.----)
    with 'data' text fields in the same format as the mp3gain
    equivalents. You may use mp4dump (located in mpeg4ip\lib\mp4v2\util)
    to view the tags.

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.4
a) Temporary files are created in the same directory as the input file.
   Formerly they were created in the same directory that the program was run
   in. This solves a problem only seen on Unix systems where the temporary 
   file could not be renamed back to the original input filename, if the 
   input file was located on a different filesystem from where the program 
   was run. Windows users are unaffected by this problem and can continue to
   use 1.3.

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.3
a) Always uses the /t (use temp file) option, even if it is not specified
   on the command line. This resolves issues where processed files would
   not play on the iPod Shuffle.
b) Preserves original values of MP4 properties bufferSizeDB, maxBitrate and 
   avgBitrate. Without this change, mpeg4ip/mp4vs was recalulating the
   actual values of these parameters. This caused bitrate as displayed by
   iTunes to change slightly, i.e. songs ripped at 320KB would display as
   319KB.
c) Incorporates recent changes to mp3gain which prevent crashes when
   working with 48KB files on Linux.
d) Source code directory structure was reorganized to be compatible with mp3gain 
   CVS on sourceforge. Thanks to Glen Sawyer, the AACGain source code is now 
   hosted on sourceforge's CVS repository as part of the mp3gain project.

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.2
a) Fixes compatibility issue with MP3GainGUI version 1.2.5 or 1.3.4.
b) All temporary files created are erased.
   
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.1
a) Multi-channel and mono files now work.
b) Fixes compatibility issues with MP3GainGUI:
   - /o option always outputs Album gain
c) /f option is ignored for AAC files - see usage notes below.
d) Uses portable versions of all library functions, and has been
   successfully compiled under Linux. Thanks to Prakash Punnoor
   for his help with this.
   
BUILDING AACGAIN FROM SOURCE CODE

I created AACGain using MSVC++.NET 2003. Thanks to Glen Sawyer for converting
the .sln/.vcproj files to .dsw/.dsp. Thanks to Prakash Punoor, the source 
code is portable, and has been compiled under Linux.

In order to build AACGain from source code, the following components are 
required. You may download them from the links listed below:

a) aacgain

   Thanks to Glen Sawyer, aacgain source code is checked into the sourceforge
   CVS repository as part of the mp3gain project. A CVS client is required.
   See the instructions at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=49979. The
   commands to check out the aacgain source code are:
   cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mp3gain login 
   cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mp3gain co -P aacgain

b) mp3gain
   You must check out the source code from sourceforge's CVS repository. A CVS
   client is required. The zipped source code files available for download
   from http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php is currently at version 
   1.4.6 and is not compatible with AACGain source code. When version 1.4.7 
   is released, use of CVS will no longer be required. The commands to check 
   out the mp3gain source code are:
   cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mp3gain login 
   cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mp3gain co -P mp3gain
   
c) faad2 
   Download the latest "FAAD2 CVS snapshot" from
   http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/mydownloads/ AACGain is based on FAAD2 
   as of Sept. 15, 2004. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE REGULAR SOURCE FILE PACKAGE FROM
   sourceforge.net or audiocoding.com. It is older and not compatible with the 
   code in AACGain. You may also check out the latest source code from CVS.
   
d) mpeg4ip version 1.2, download from http://www.mpeg4ip.net
   Extract the files from the archive using a tool that writes
   the text files with DOS-style line-endings (\r\n). Winzip works fine.
   If the files are written with Unix-style line-endings (\r), MSVC++ 
   will not be able to open the project files. If this happens, you 
   can use unix2dos to repair the files. RENAME THE ROOT DIRECTORY FROM 
   mpeg4ip-1.2 to mpeg4ip. You may also check out the source code from CVS, 
   in which case the root directory will be correctly named mpeg4ip.
   
The components must be arranged in the following directory hierarchy:
-- aacgain containing aacgain.dsw/.sln, aacgain.dsp/.vcproj and source files
-- faad2 (create this directory and extract the faad2 archive into it)
   -- include
   -- libfaad containing libfaad.dsp
      -- codebook
      -- fftw
   other directories are not used and can be pruned if desired
-- mpeg4ip (rename from mpeg4ip-1.2 to be consistent with sourceforge CVS)
   -- include
   -- lib
      -- mp4v2 containing libmp4v2_st60.dsp
         -- util
      -- gnu containing libmissing60.dsp
   other directories are not used and can be pruned if desired
-- mp3gain (this directory will be created when you checkout the cvs source)
   -- mpglibDBL
      
APPLY THE PATCH in file aacgain\mpeg4ip12.patch to mpeg4ip. This fixes
2 issues with libmp4v2:
a) Adds support for the iTunes "grouping" metadata tag.
b) PREVENTS FILE CORRUPTION when a file is opened using MP4Modify or
   MP4File::Modify and additional metadata tags are added.

Bill May has checked these changes into mpeg4ip's CVS, so if you checked out
the latest sources from http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=18676, instead
of downloading the archive, you don't need to apply the patch.

To apply the patch:
a) cd mpeg4ip
b) patch -p0 -i ..\aacgain\mpeg4ip12.patch
c) If patch.exe fails with "Assertion failed: hunk, file patch.c, line 343", 
   this means the line endings on the patch file and mpeg4ip source are not 
   the same, i.e. one has Unix (\r) and the other has DOS (\n\r) line endings.
   If this happens, use unix2dos or dos2unix so that the patch and source files
   both have the same line endings.
   
If you don't have patch.exe, you can download it from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net The gnuwin32 distribution of patch.exe
requires that you also install the dlls from packages LibIconv and LibIntl
which may be downloaded from the same site.

Both .dsw/.dsp and .sln/.vcproj files are provided for use with MSVC++6
or later. There should be 5 projects in your workspace/solution:
1. aacgain
2. libfaad
3. libmissing60
4. libmp4v2_st
5. mp3gainlib

Make the following changes to the libfaad project properties:
a) Change the C++/Code generation/Runtime Library property for libfaad to
   "Single-threaded Debug (/MLd)" for debug build and "Single-threaded (/ML)"
   for release build. 
b) Change the Librarian/Ignore All Default Libraries property to 
   "Yes (/NODEFAULTLIB)" for both debug and release builds.

At this point, you may press F7 and cross your fingers:-)

HOW AACGAIN WORKS

mpeg4ip/lib/mp4v2 is used to parse the mp4/QuickTime file format, to
read individual samples so that they can be passed to faad2, and to
read and write metadata tags.

faad2 is used to de-compress and decode the aac frames into linear 
PCM for analysis by the replaygain algorithm.

Files syntax.c and decoder.c are slightly modified versions of the
corresponding files from faad2. The modifications allow the positions
and original values of the global_gain fields to be saved.

File MP4MetaFile.cpp subclasses mp4v2 class MP4File. Additional functionality
was added in MP4MetaFile to modify the global_gain fields within a frame.

aacgain.cpp is a wrapper for the above functionality.

mp3gain.c has been modified to call aacgain when the symbol AACGAIN is
defined. The version mp3gain.c checked into sourceforge's cvs repository
has this modification included.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am a total newbie to digital audio, and I created AACGain primarily
as a learning exercise. I couldn't have done it without the help of others:

1. Thanks to the user community at hydrogenaudio.org and audiocoding.com,
   especially Menno and Hans-Jrgen.
2. Thanks to Bill May for helping me get started with mpeg4ip.
3. Thanks to Prakash Punnoor and Hardloaf for their help with Linux and Mac.
4. Last, but not least, thanks to Glen Sawyer for creating mp3gain.

Dave Lasker
dave@altosdesign.com
April 14, 2005
