= Proposed roadmap for Musepack = == 1. Code cleanup and restructuration == a. Split mppenc in 3 parts :[[br]] no nead to be able to compile mppenc, but libs must compile and have clear entry points and structs * libmpcpsy (name ?) for the psyco-acoustic model * libmpcenc for pqf filtering, quantization , entropy coding and stream formating * mppenc (mpcenc ? name ?) for command line utility - what to do with replay gain part ? does a lib already exist ? b. Make a minimal mppenc using libmpcenc and lipmpcpsy and .wav input (from another lib ?). Encoding must be the same as 1.15w bit for bit (without tags). c. Code cleanup : * rewrite mppenc from old code and use libs as much as possible (taglib, ...) * code cleanup : remove all unused / commented code, look for duplicated code, use fftw lib for libmpcpsy == 2. First sv8 steps == * define sv8 needs * write bitstream and decoding specs for sv8 * add sv8 to libmpcenc / libmpcdec * create an utility to convert sv7 => sv8 using libmpcdec / libmpcenc * maybe release sv8.0 at this point * mux sv8 frames into other containers (mka, mp4, nut) * try to improve entropy coding of current stream. release sv8.1 if successful, update the convert utility == 3. Improving sv8, the incompatible way == untill this point, conversion from from sv7 to sv8 was lossless. * Improve lipmpcpsy if possible (doesn't break compatibility, but make old encodes obsolete) * Change core compression : make use of transform, state of the art compression tools. This time compatibility is totaly broken. Once done release sv8.2 ? Thanks for adds, comments