2.1.0

Fixed

• Depth and height parameters were switched in metadata conversion. See #26.
• Bug in channel lock priority order, which controls the loudspeaker selection when the object position is the same distance from multiple loudspeakers. See #28.
• Screen scaling now fails explicitly in cases where it was not well-defined before, generally with extreme positions and sizes. See #22.
• Errors with gaps at the start of metadata. See #13.
• Rounding of times in XML writer. See #12.
• audioStreamFormat referencing error messages. See 34b738a and 04533fc.
• Improved extraData handling in BW64 reader; see #48

Changed

• DirectSpeakers panner uses allocentric panning for Cartesian positions. See 222374a.
• Removed python 2.7 support.
• fix_block_format_durations parameter is deprecated, and the ADM XML parser no longer issues warnings for timing issues -- use ear.fileio.adm.timing_fixes for this functionality instead. See #8.
• --enable-block-duration-fix performs more extensive fixes; this now fixes the following issues:
  • audioBlockFormats where the rtime plus the duration of one audioBlockFormat does not match the rtime of the next.
  • interpolationTime parameter larger than duration.
  • audioBlockFormat rtime plus duration extending past the end of the containing audioObject.
• Issue a warning for DirectSpeakers blocks with a speakerLabel containing LFE which is not detected as an LFE channel. See #9.
• Improved warning and error output: tidier formatting, and repeated warnings are suppressed by default. See #37.

Added

• loudnessMetadata data structures, parsing and generation. See #25.
• ear-utils regenerate command to re-generate AXML and CHNA chunks. See #8.
• The absoluteDistance parameter is now extracted from AXML and added to the ExtraData structure; see #45.
• Lots of documentation, see https://ear.readthedocs.io/

2.0.0

Changes for ITU ADM renderer reference code.

• Changes to rendering of Objects specified using Cartesian parameters.
• Added conversion between Cartesian and polar Objects parameters.
• Changed to BSD-Clear license.

1.2.0

Fixed

• Slightly non-normalised gains in extent panner.

Changed

• Improved downmix/upmix behaviour for DirectSpeakers content specified using the common definitions.
• Change default azimuth of M+-SC to 15.
• Support wider azimuths for M+-SC; they may now be between 5 and 25 degrees, or 35 and 60 degrees.
• Removed LFE behaviour for Objects.
• Validate Cartesian and frequency information for Objects

1.1.2

Fixed

• Bug whereby NaNs could be produced in polar extent panner.

1.1.1

Fixed

• aspectRatio is an attribute not an element.
• Accept the urn:ebu:metadata-schema:ebuCore_2016 namespace.
• Added default for Z coordinates.
• Various deprecation warnings.

Added

• Specified loudspeaker positions are now checked against the allowed ranges.
• Validation of screenEdgeLock in Objects.

1.1.0

Removed

• adm_parent references in ADM objects.

Added

• Matrix type support.
• Simple validation of ADM data model, and more extensive validation of ADM
  structures.
• Support for rendering objects with silent audioTrackUID references.
• Support for audioPackFormat HOA parameters.
• Selection of audioProgramme and complementary audioObjects from
  ear-render.
• adm_path to RenderingItems, with pointers to the corresponding ADM
  objects. This is not used by the renderer but is a useful feature for other
  applications built on top of the underlying ADM library.
• Support for more flexible referencing of nested audioPackFormats; each
  audioTrackUID or chna row can reference any appropriate audioPackFormat
  on the path from the root audioPackFormat (which contains the full set of
  audioChannelFormats used) to the audioPackFormat that contains the
  audioChannelFormat of the track.
• Better support for using multi-channel audioPackFormats -- in an
  audioObject or chna-only file using multiple audioPackFormats may be
  ambiguous if they share some audioChannelFormats. This should now be
  handled correctly in all cases.

Changed

• The reference direction between audioTrackFormat and audioStreamFormat
  was reversed in the data model (audioTrackFormats now point at a single
  audioStreamFormat), and axml references in either direction now establish
  this relationship. Note that this does not follow the exact wording in
  BS.2076-1, but this helps compatibility with other systems and should match
  future revisions of BS.2076. If either of these references are omitted a
  warning will be issued when a file is rendered. When generating BW64+ADM
  files (with ear-utils) both reference directions are now included.
• Complete re-implementation of RenderingItem selection to support other
  features in this release. This functionality was moved from
  ear.fileio.utils to ear.core.select_items.
• RenderingItems now use the TrackSpec structure rather than an index to
  point to their source audio, to allow for silent and Matrix tracks.

1.0.1

Changed

• An error will be raised if any audioTrackUID elements or CHNA rows have ID
  ATU_00000000, as references to these elements could be confused with silent
  audioTrackUID references.
• Miscellaneous improvements to testing infrastructure.

Fixed

• When generating BW64+ADM files (with ear-utils), do not generate
  audioTrackUIDs with ID ATU_00000000, which (as above) could be confused
  with silent audioTrackUID references.
• Updated use of attrs to fix deprecation warnings.
• Wrong imports and CHNA chunk generation in replace_axml command.
• Pytest warnings fixed by upgrading pytest-datafiles to 2.0.
• Error when testing block_aligner on python 3.7 with coverage enabled.
• Error in PeakMonitor when rendering very short files.
• dump_chna in binary mode on python 3.
• Padding character in axml chunk.

1.0.0

Initial release.