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WAVE Utilities is a set of three programs for dealing with WAVE format audio files. Some software is unable to parse complex WAVE files containing such things as playlists and padding. SimplifyWave converts complex files into files that such programs can read by stripping everything other than the data chunk. RepairWave inserts the required data chunk id and size information into ill-formed files in which the audio data directly follows the header. InfoWave extracts information from a RIFF/WAV or RIFX/WAV file and reports on the contents of the file.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The programs have been adapted to run correctly on
64-bit architectures as well as 32-bit
architectures. They should now compile on systems
whose printf does not support thousands
separators.


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Data Crow is a movie, video, book, software, and
music cataloguer/database. It uses freeDB, Amazon,
and IMDB Web services. It is highly customizable,
easy to use, and feature rich. It has PDF
reporting. It supports DVDs, audio CDs, and many
audio and video file formats.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The option to edit an item as if it were new was
added. The fields should be updated by the online
update may now be selected. CSV support was added
for the File Import functionality. The bugfixes
from the previous patches are included, as well as
a couple of new ones.


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PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for Python.
PyYAML features a complete YAML 1.1 parser,
Unicode support, pickle support, capable extension
API, and sensible error messages. PyYAML supports
standard YAML tags and provides Python-specific
tags that allow the representation of an arbitrary
Python object. PyYAML is applicable for a broad
range of tasks from complex configuration files to
object serialization and persistence.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
Windows binary packages were built with the
LibYAML trunk. A bug that prevented processing a
live stream of YAML documents in timely manner was
fixed. A bug which occurred when the path in
add_path_resolver contains boolean values was
fixed. A loss of microsecond precision in
timestamps was fixed. Loading an empty YAML stream
was fixed. A number of other smaller fixes and
improvements were made.


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Sharehound is a network file systems indexer and Google-like searcher written in Java and based on Apache Lucene. It currently supports SMB file shares (i.e. MS Windows-based network shares) and FTP resources. A Web UI is used for search and crawl monitoring. An RSS feed is provided for search results that include deleted files info.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
A function to search by address was added to the
hosts screen, but only exact match is currently
supported. A user feedback link was introduced on
each screen.


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BLAG is a single-CD Linux distribution that has a suite of
graphics, Internet, audio, video, office, and
peer-to-peer file sharing applications. It is
based on Fedora Core, Dag, Freshrpms, etc. It is up-to-date with all Fedora errata updates at the time of release, and uses apt/synaptic for easy upgrades and installation of new applications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version is an incremental update from 60000,
rolling in over 200 updates and several new
packages.

