= Proposed roadmap for Musepack =

== 1. Code cleanup and restructuration ==
 a. Split mppenc in 4 parts :[[br]] no nead to be able to compile mppenc, but libs must compile and have clear entry points and structs
  * libmpcpsy for the psyco-acoustic model
  * libmpcenc for pqf filtering, quantization , entropy coding and stream formating
  * libreplaygain for replay gain calculation
  * mppenc (mpcenc ? name ?) for command line utility
 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 ?

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