[ardour-users] OS X 0.99.1test1 release

[Jesse Chappell]

On 1/26/06, Jesse Chappell <jesse at essej.net> wrote:
> On 1/21/06, Jesse Chappell <jesse at essej.net> wrote:
>
> > > >For those OS X ardour users who have been waiting for a version of
> > > >ardour that lets you use sessions from Linux/intel platforms here is
> > > >the 0.99.1test1 release for you to try out.  Several other important
> > > >bugs have been fixed since 0.99 and this will be close to the final
> > > >0.99.1 release.
> > > >
> > > >http://ardour.org/releases/Ardour-0.99.1test1.dmg
> > > >
> > > >Please let me know if you have any startup issues, etc.  Always look
> > > >in your console.log using the Utilities->Console app when reporting
> > > >problems.
> > > >
> > > >jlc
>
>
> I forgot to mention this important fact, all your existing session's
> audio files will have their headers corrected automatically by the new
> version to be cross-endian safe.  This has the side affect that the
> session will become unusable with the old 0.99 release.  But trust me,
> this new release is better anyway :)
> The same goes for trying out the Ardour2 version.
>
> Sorry about this, but what we had before was an unmaintainable illegal
> audio file format issue on OSX.


And if this is a problem for anyone, I will gladly make a script that
will convert your session's audio file headers back to their old
(illegal but usable in older ardour) form.  Just let me know....

jlc