History

audioverité was originally called Audiosalad and was developed over a number of years by Deane Thomas. I met him in 2000 and since it was written in Java, I was immediately interested in using it and helping him enhance it. I've worked on it on and off for about 5 years now and in that time Deane rewrote the program in native Cocoa and lost interest in the Java version. Finally he passed the CVS repository on to me and I renamed the program to audioverité and have been working on it ever since.

The program was originally developed on the Mac (and for the most part still is) and used Quicktime as it's underlying technology for playing mp3s. I wanted to be able to use it on Linux so my first task was to replace the Quicktime decoder with something based on the Jave Media Framework. Unfortunately JMF never really worked very well and Sun seems to have lost interest in it. Currently audioverité uses the JLayer library from javazoom.net and there is also a native libmad version as well.

Currently I'm in the process of cleaning up and commenting the code as well as fixing things and making enhancements. Version 2.1 is the first public release of audioverité and represents a baseline for things to come.