v6.0 Alpha 3

WARNING THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE

Pre-relase of GUI.

GUI will be automatically loaded, to use command line use version 5.1.

Fixes from Alpha 2:

Added

- Aaru Image Format

• Save Compact Disc track indexes in.
• Support reading mode2 subheaders.
• Support writing multi-session DVD/Blu-ray in Aaru Image Format and CDRWin.

- BlindWrite 4 disc image

• Add reading subchannels.

- CDRWin cuesheet disc image

• Support Redump GD-ROM variant.
• Support writing multi-session DVD/Blu-ray in Aaru Image Format and CDRWin.
• Write proper Lead-Out entry on CDRWin images.

- Device report

• Add MediaTek command F1h subcommand 06h to device report.
• Add test for reading Lead-Out using a trap disc.
• Support creating device reports of MiniDisc Data drives.

- Devices

• Add ATA commands for lock, unlock and eject.
• Add READ TRACK INFORMATION command from SCSI MMC.

- Dumping

• Add dumping MD DATA discs.
• Add floptical detection.
• Add list of files for media dump command.
• Add option to eject media after a dump completes.
• Add option to fix subchannel position.
• Add option to fix subchannels.
• Add option to retry bad subchannel sectors.
• Add option to use list of output files when dumping media.
• Detect disc type when dumping non-CD MMC devices.
• Dump sessions and tracks on non-CD optical discs.
• Enable accessing generic SCSI node in Linux.
• Read SD/MMC devices one block at a time, as READ MULTIPLE is timing out, pending investigation.
• Report and stop dump if pregaps cannot be preserved, unless forced.
• Save error log on dump.
• Save indexes on dump.
• Support dumping CD-i Ready when drive returns data sectors as audio.
• Use subchannel, if available, to set ISRC.
• Use subchannel, if available, to set MCN.
• Write subchannel log when dumping Compact Disc media.

- Image analysis

• Print track indexes in image info.

- Image conversion

• Add option to fix subchannels on image conversion.
• Add option to generate subchannels.

- ISO9660 filesystem

• Add interpretation of timezone offsets.
• Check if PVD points to the real root directory, if not check path table, if neither do not mount.
• Expose MODE2 subheaders as extended attributes.

- Media image formats

• Add generation of RAW CD sectors from images that do only contains them cooked.

- Media information

• Add detection of CD32 and CDTV discs.
• Add detection of China Video Disc.
• Add detection of HiFD floppies.
• Add detection of Neo Geo CD discs.
• Add detection of PhotoCD.
• Add detection of Sony PlayStation Compact Disc.
• Add detection of VideoCD and Super Video CD.
• Add support for MD DATA drives.
• Calculate all pregaps in media info.
• Detect CD-i Ready when the drive returns data scrambled.
• Implement detection of CD+G, CD+EG and CD+MIDI.
• Show the reasons while a media type has been chosen on detection.

- Media types

• Add China Video Disc media type.

- Metadata sidecar

• Add media catalogue number, track isrc, flag and indexes.

Fixed

- Aaru Image Format

• Clarify error message in case of corrupted prefix/suffix data.
• Ensure FLAC buffer is finished correctly.
• Fix marking CD track flags and ISRCs as present.
• Fix setting indexes from track start and pregap.
• Sectors with no entry in the DDTs to be considered not dumped.

- Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System

• Fix identification of some variants.

- Alcohol 120% disc image

• Fix message about incorrect images showing with correct images.
• Fix saving proper pregap, length and offset.
• Fix writing multi-session images.
• Write extra field in Alcohol for tracks that don't have it (POINT>=A0h).

- BlindWrite 4 disc image

• Fixed track offsets and pregaps in BlindWrite 4 images.

- BlindWrite 5/6 disc image

• Fix identifying BlindWrite 5 vs 6.
• Fix images that contain a non existent data file.
• Fix multi-session images.
• Fix reading ATIP.
• Fix reading subchannels.

- cdrdao disc image

• Fix writing indexes.

- CDRWin cuesheet disc image

• Fix reading images that do not have track mode in all caps.
• Fix reading multi-session images.
• Fix writing indexes.

- CloneCD disc image

• Fix reading multi-session images.
• Fix subchannels.
• Fix track solving.
• Fix writing multi-session images.
• Fix writing pregap mode.

- Database

• Ensure not adding duplicate seen devices to database.

- Device report

• Correctly handle report of pregap and Lead-in readability.
• On device report try only a few sectors from track 1 pregap.

- Devices

• Add SCSI MEDIUM SCAN command.
• Do not show information about CD offsets in device info when device is not an MMC class device. Fixes #357
• Fix getting serial from USB or FireWire.

- DiscJuggler disc image

• Fix incorrect mode2 handling.
• Fix indexes and track starts.
• Fix partition calculations.
• Fix session sequence in tracks.

- Dumping

• Do not cross Lead-out in data tracks.
• Do not show speed burst if they have not been set.
• Fix calculating offset using scrambled read as audio when device is in database.
• Fix detecting indexes in track 1.
• Fix dumping when read subchannel is PQ only.
• Fix infinite loop failing to cross Lead-Out dumping CDs.
• Fix infinite loop on some CD track mode changes while dumping.
• Fix not exiting when an image cannot be appended.
• Fix opening SecureDigital / MultiMediaCard devices.
• Fix pregap calculation in track mode changes when pregap ends in 0.
• Fix reading OCR from newer versions of Linux sysfs.
• Fix re-setting track pregap when a read subchannel indicates a different value.
• Fix reversing list of bad blocks only if we're retrying backwards.
• Fix setting track pregaps from subchannel.
• Fix setting track subchannel type to the desired type.
• Handle discs that have pregap ending in LBA 1 instead of ending in LBA 0.
• If block 0 can not be read, try another random block before deciding media cannot be read, for SBC and ATA.
• If track mode can not be guessed, try again after pregap.
• Make pregap calculation faster in some drive/disc combinations.
• On errors when dumping with INSITE floptical drives, always stop, as these drives have a SCSI bus quirk that makes them need a reset on modern software stacks after an error has been found.
• Trim as audio when we know it is an audio sector, fixes some firmware bugs in audio pregap after a data track.
• Update the pregap while dumping if found to be bigger than known one.
• Use SCSI MEDIUM SCAN to find the first readable block.

- FAT filesystem

• Do not try to read EAs from FAT16 directory entry field when it is a FAT32 volume.
• Fix false positive in FAT identification.

- Image analysis

• Do not calculate pregaps on non-CD optical disc images.

- Image conversion

• Fix overwriting flags and isrc in all CD writable image formats.

- ISO9660 filesystem

• Fix files of size 0.
• Fix listing extended attributes for empty files.
• Fix reading directories that span more than a sector when detecting media type.
• Fix swapping location of big-endian path table in debug mode.
• If use path table option is indicated, use it also for the root directory.

- MAME Compressed Hunks of Data

• Disable support for CHD v5 until it can be fixed properly.
• Fix indexes and pregap.

- Media information

• Discard PMA without descriptors.
• Display media sizes in international system units.

- Metadata sidecar

• Disable trying to checksum between sessions, as all images throw an exception here.
• Fix creating sidecar when a track's index 0 is negative.

- Nero Burning ROM disc image

• Fix off by one error reading.
• Fix reading multi-session images.

- Statistics

• Fix sending media formats statistics.

Changes

• Change database name to be more inclusive.
• Move common subchannel code to decoders.
• Optimize speed when reading subchannels.
• Read with subchannel even if not supported by image or not asked by user.
• Send statistics at program end, not start.