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The old but still quite useful Nana now has a Win32 SDL build, various minor improvements, and source code available under GPL.

I've also re-released UIPS under the GPL.

Informer, the lossy audio detector, now works much better in Windows Vista and 7. See the release notes or the Informer page for more.

A new version of Informer is out, with lots of general improvements.

See the release notes for details, or the Informer page to download.

Is that CD legit? Are those FLAC files just recoded MP3s in disguise? Now you know. Informer is a real-time spectrograph designed to make lossy audio compression artifacts clearly visible.

Visit the Informer page to see what it's all about.

Highly Experimental v2.09 is out, with some bug fixes and improvements:

• XMPlay: Fixed bug that caused non-PSF files to show improper lengths when queued in the playlist
• XMPlay: Fixed empty error dialogs at the end of every song when "Show error messages" was enabled
• Fixed a silence detection bug that, very rarely, would have caused songs to end too early
• Slight improvements in CPU usage all around, particularly when "Simulate frequency response" is enabled

Available at the Highly Experimental page.

Highly Experimental v2.08 is out! This is a major update with a lot of new features:

• Added support for Replay Gain and Clip Protect
• Added support for Winamp Media Library and Advanced Title Formatting
• Added native support for XMPlay
• Added Unicode tag support, as described in PSF format spec v1.6
• Fixed numerous bugs in PSF2 loading that were causing memory leaks and sub-optimal speed
• New installer EXE

As always, downloadable at the Highly Experimental page.

I've released a new version of PSFPoint to the public domain. Now that the tagging code is unencumbered, it's easier than ever to add PSF tagging capability to your own applications.

• PSFPoint page

Always wanted to add QSound games to Winamp, without requiring a separate player? Now you can. The new QSF format brings the same functionality of PSF to Capcom QSound-based arcade games.

And with the addition of Adam Gashlin's nearly-complete USF (Nintendo 64) subformat, PSF now covers 6 different systems. To recognize this, I've officially renamed it the "Portable Sound Format".

Links, players, new format documentation, new how-tos, and QSF files: You know where to look.

• PSF Central

For anyone wondering what I've been up to lately, I just finished a Dreamcast and a Playstation 2 port of a new homebrew game called Beats of Rage. No, it has nothing to do with Bemani, but check it out.

• Senile Team's Beats of Rage site

Highly Experimental v2.07 now recognizes NTSC vs. PAL regions and supports _refresh tag overrides, as outlined in the latest PSF specification.

• Highly Experimental page