NEWS
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-current master branch "magnetic momentum"
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++current master branch "cascading gradient"
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++
++ - para_afh learned to modify meta tags of mp3 wma ogg spx
++ opus flac aac files.
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+0.5.5 (2015-09-20) "magnetic momentum"
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+
+Many new features and a lot of other improvements.
+
- On Linux systems, local sockets are now created in the
abstract name space by default. This allows to get rid of
the socket specials in /var/paraslash.
--- /dev/null
- <li> Stand-alone decoder/player </li>
+<h1>About</h1>
+<hr>
+
+Paraslash is a collection of network audio streaming tools for Unix
+systems. It is written in C and released under the GPLv2.
+
+<ul>
+ <li> Runs on Linux, Mac OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD </li>
+ <li> Mp3, ogg/vorbis, ogg/speex, aac (m4a), wma, flac and ogg/opus support </li>
+ <li> http, dccp and udp network streaming </li>
++ <li> Stand-alone decoder, player, tagger </li>
+ <li> Curses-based gui (<a href="gui.png">screenshot</a>) </li>
+ <li> Integrated volume normalizer, fader, alarm clock </li>
+ <li> Sophisticated audio file selector </li>
+ <li> Command line interface with tab-completion </li>
+ <li> Open source and well documented </li>
+</ul>
+
+<b> Author: </b> André Noll,
+<a href="mailto:maan@tuebingen.mpg.de">maan@tuebingen.mpg.de</a>
+<br>
+Comments and bug reports are welcome. Please provide the version of
+paraslash you are using and relevant parts of the logs.