What's new in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.39
Sep 20, 2023
- Fix a bug that can cause the listener count to no longer be updated
- Fix a bug that can cause the split record file function to stop working
- Fix a bug that can cause butt not to reconnect after a connection loss
- Fix a bug that can cause undefined behaviour
- Clear song name if song file is empty
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.38 (Aug 5, 2023)
- Users can now define a custom window title
- Add option to set a delay between automatic reconnects
- Add option to use the older Icecast SOURCE protocol instead of the newer PUT protocol
- Increase robustness of the config file importer
- Increase robustness of the show listeners function
- Use green instead of yellow to indicate a valid streaming connection
- Fix memory leak when using Icecast and showing the number of listeners
- Fix UI drawing issues
- Fix issue with the main window size on Windows 11
- Fix issues with the tray agent on Windows
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.37 (Dec 24, 2022)
- Add support for a second audio device
- Streaming and recording volume can be set independently
- Add support for icecast-kh listener statistics
- Highlight connect and record buttons when active
- Restore window size if "Remember main window position" is active
- Increase size of slider knobs
- Start with default values in case the config file is damaged
- Always overwrite existing files when recording is started automatically or via butt client
- Do not stop recording if a butt client sends a disconnect command while butt is offline
- Fix an issue were butt mistakenly says "Connecting…"
- Fix memory leak if "Show listeners" is activate
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.36 (Oct 3, 2022)
- Number of current listeners can be displayed on the LCD (works only with original Icecast and Shoutcast implementations)
- Fix connection issue with AIS streaming server
- Fix connection issue with Icecast servers older than version 2.4.0
- Fix issue with Shoutcast if mountpoint is already in use
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.35 (Jun 19, 2022)
- Gain slider can be disabled to prevent inadvertently changing the volume
- Audio device initialization can be skipped by holding down CTRL during startup
- Fix crash if audio device can not be opened
- Fix crash if no default audio device can be found
- Fix wrong password detection for certain liquidsoap Shoutcast implementations
- Fix crash of command client and command server when very long song names are specified
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.34 (May 10, 2022)
- Added equalizer presets
- Added Spanish translation
- Use 32 bit float for internal audio processing instead of 16 bit integer
- FLAC can now be broadcasted and recorded as 16 bit or 24 bit
- WAV can now be recorded as 16 bit, 24 bit or 32 bit
- Massively improved client/server implementation for butt commands
- Fixed bug that caused overwriting the first wav samples of a recording
- Fixed read song name from Music.app for MacOS >= 11.0
- Fixed record folder creation if folder contains format variables
- Butt commands can now also be sent via UDP
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.33 (Feb 7, 2022)
- Windows: You can broadcast what’s playing on your computer (audio device must support WASAPI)
- Windows/Linux: New butt-client for controlling running butt instances (Thanks to Hossam)
- Added support for higher samplerates (88.2 kHz and 96 kHz)
- Added Portuguese (Brazil) translation (Thanks to Bruno)
- Added signal and silence detection flags to the status information
- Time thresholds for signal detection can be changed via control commands (Thanks to Hossam)
- Format place holders (%Y %m %d etc.) can also be used in the folder name
- Song title update support for OPUS
- Fixed wrong file size in wav header
- Fixed compilation if --disable-ssl or --disable-aac was passed to ./configure
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.30 (May 14, 2021)
- Added support for IPv6
- Added French translation
- Right click on a slider knob brings up an input field where you can type in the slider value with the keyboard
- The selected audio device can now be remembered by device name instead by device id
- You can now rescan for new audio devices manually (no butt restart needed anymore after plugging in a new audio device)
- Holding the shift key during butt startup allows you to start with a fresh configuration file
- Updated Portaudio to version v19.7.0
- Windows: Added support for WINAPI audio driver
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.29 (Apr 1, 2021)
- Added a new tool (butt Agent) which helps to minimize butt to tray and much more (Big thanks to Ivan Radolovic)
- Added an indicator to the compressor which lights up if the threshold is exceeded
- Added "Aggressive Mode" to the compressor. If activated, the signal power for threshold detection is not averraged
- Added new command line options: -q (quit) -n (split recording) -u <songname> (update song name)
- Added donation addresses for Bitcoin, Monero and Dash
- Fixed crash when butt can not find any input channels
- Fixed crash when reading song names from an UTF-8 formatted file that contains a BOM
- Fixed issue with icecast-kh14+ when connecting to a mountpoint which is already in use
- Fixed issue if both checkboxes "start recording after launch" and "start recording when connected" are checked
- Fixed butt.desktop file. Icon was not shown on GNOME panel
- Attack and Release compressor labels now have 2 decimal places instead of only 1
- butt does not send bitrate information to the icecast server anymore if FLAC is used
- butt now searches for a free command server port if default port is already in use
- butt can now be started in minimized state
- The recording file name can now contain any well known date format specifier
- The window class name has been renamed from FLTK to butt_FLTK
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.25 (Oct 27, 2020)
- Added the ability to extend the song name with a prefix and a suffix
- Fixed issue with automatic song update from text files
- Fixed recording in FLAC
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.24 (Oct 16, 2020)
- VU-meter has been redesigned
- Fixed issues with usernames that contain special characters
- The port of the command server can be specified via command line
- Commands can be received via network
- It is possible to connect to a particular streaming server when sending the connect command
- You can ask a butt instance about its current status with the -S command
- butt can automatically check for updates after launch
- Update of song name works with FLAC
- Thresholds for signal detection can be specified
- Added -h command line option to get an overview of all available commands
- Updated the manual
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.23 (Sep 27, 2020)
- Added Dynamic Range Compressor (thanks to Thomas P.)
- Added ability to check for new versions
- butt can now be controlled via command line
- Replaced experimental portaudio version with the stable portaudio version
- Fixed issue with stereo audio when using the Equalizer (thanks to Thomas P.)
- Fixed traffic calculation when using OPUS
- Fixed issue with OPUS encoding under some circumstances
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.21 (May 26, 2020)
- streaming and recording can now be started automatically if an audio signal is present
- fixed reconnection issue on unreliable network connections. Should now behave like 0.1.19 again
- wav recordings can now be up to 4 GB large
- removed advanced section from the Audio tab. Buffer time can still be set in the configuration file if you need to
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.20 (Apr 22, 2020)
- Added SSL/TLS support for icecast
- Recording can now automatically be stopped if the user disconnects from the server
- Fixed icecast connection issue (mostly occurring on mobile internet connections like 4G/LTE)
- Fixed wrong password detection for liquidsoap based setups
- Fixed configuration export on MacOS
- Fixed logfile selection on MacOS
- Song name is not updated on reconnect anymore if the manual song name input field has been cleared
- Upgraded FLTK to version 1.3.5
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.19 (Apr 22, 2020)
- The song name can now be read from the last line instead from the first line of a file
- Streaming and recording can now be automatically stopped after silence has been detected
- The last window position can be remembered. Useful when running multiple instances
- butt can now be started with hidden info window
- The vu-meter runs smoother and needs less cpu
- Vu-meter peak hold is only active for the red light
- Closing butt while streaming or recording must be confirmed now
- Changes are now saved without asking for confirmation when closing the app
- Removed a new line character from the server name in the title bar
- Fixed receiving song information from iTunes/Music in MacOS Catalina
- Fixed wrong counting of sent bytes when using AAC
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.18 (May 13, 2019)
- Aadded support for automatic recording after starting butt
- Anabled AAC afterburner (improves audio quality)
- Fixed issue with configure.ac and s390x architecture
- Updated the FSF address in COPYING
- AAC libs are not delivered with the setup files anymore (read the manual on how to activate AAC support again)
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.17 (Dec 28, 2018)
- Added support for FLAC streaming (icecast only)
- Added 5-band equalizer (thanks to Melchor Garau Madrigal)
- Added the ability to read song informations from several apps on MacOS and Linux (thanks to Melchor Garau Madrigal)
- Window title is automatically renamed to the connected server (useful when running multiple instances)
- Fixed connection issue with airtime
- Fixed integer overflow when gain is set too high
- Fixed compilation error on ubuntu 18
- Changed color of windows icon from black to yellow. So people using Win10 can now find butt in their black taskbar ;-)
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.16 (Dec 29, 2017)
- fixed compatibility issues with shoutcast v2.5.5.732
- replaced portaudio by newest stable version v190600_20161030
- when using AAC+ the best AAC profile for the selected bitrate is used automatically
- AAC+v2: bitrate < 48kBit/s (aac_aot = 29)
- AAC+v1: 48 kBit/s <= bitrate < 96kBit/s (aac_aot = 5)
- AAC-LC: bitrate >= 96kBit/s (aac_aot = 2)
- you can force the AAC codec to a specific profile by setting aac_overwrite_aot = 1 and aac_aot to the appropriate aot value {2,5,29} in buttrc
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.15 (Sep 17, 2017)
- added AAC+ support
- added a "Split now" button to instantly start a new recording file
- improved compatibility with proxies/load balancers
- fixed handling of newline characters when reading the song name file
- fixed evlauation of time/date variables when automatic file splitting is enabled
- fixed compatibility with airtime servers
- fixed ogg and opus support for ShoutCast
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.14 (Mar 12, 2015)
- added FLAC support for recording
- added Opus support
- added logfile support
- added support for more variables in the filename (%H %M %S)
- automatic file splitting can be synced to full hour now
- LCD info can automatically rotate every 5 seconds now
- added ability to change audio buffer size
- uncluttered LCD
- file extension of record filename gets automatically updated now
- dropped support of different samplerate/channels for stream and record
- resorted settings elements/widgets
- removed possible memleaks
- connecting to an unreachable server does not freeze the GUI anymore
- fixed icecast and shoutcast meta data handling
- made update song from file more robust
- "update song name manually" reacts on Enter button now
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.13 (Mar 12, 2015)
- has an icon now!
- added support for lower bitrates (24k, 16k, 8k)
- added support for user defined configuration path e.g. "butt -c "
- added support for user names in Icecast
- added gain slider. This slider multiplies the audio input samples with the given factor
- added .manifest file to disable the VirtualStore on Windows Vista and higher
- added the ability to automatically split the recording every n minutes
- added feature for importing and exporting configuration files
- compiles with Xcode 5 on OS X Mavericks
- compiles with traditional GNU autoconf/automake environment on linux and mingw
- improved robustness against faulty config files
- improved compatibility to ShoutCast v2 servers
- improved look&feel
- fixed samplerate issues
- fixed mono playback/recording
- changed data volume information vom kBytes to MBytes
- changed default recording path to users home folder
- sends audio information (bitrate etc.) to Icecast server - Thanks to Dominik Durner
- reimplemented VU-Meter with peak hold
- comes with as an ubuntu package
- windows: can be installed as user without admin rights
- windows: uninstallation process also removes the configuration file
- instead of canceling the automatic song update in case the given file is not readable, butt now tries to reread the file every 5 seconds
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.12 (Mar 12, 2015)
- butt is now able to connect automatically after startup
- shortened time between connect attempts (fixes Shouted.FM connection problems)
- improved wrong password detection for shoutcast
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.11-2 (Mar 12, 2015)
- fixed display info after automatic reconnection
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.11-1 (Mar 12, 2015)
- fixed segfault if there is no . in the filename
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.11 (Mar 12, 2015)
- fixed unintended disconnects
- fixed recording problems
- removed buffer overrun messages
- recording can be now stopped with the stop-button
- replaced pcm recording by wav recording
- recording as ogg is now possible
- added "stay on top" checkbox
- fixed possible crash when changing mp3 settings while streaming
New in butt (broadcast using this tool) 0.1.10 (Mar 12, 2015)
- removed xrun "led". Instead the msg window informs the user about overruns
- added dB values to the vu-meter
- fixed bitrate/samplerate selection for ogg
- network backend works with non-blocking sockets now
- libshout is not needed anymore
- songname can be updated from a textfile now
- more samplerates are supported now
- fixed samplerate selection problems
- fixed crash when connecting to icecast server on MacOS 10.4
- fixed crash when changing the server type from shoutcast to icecast
- some cosmetic changes (buttons, LEDs)