Jencode Future Features

The following is a development roadmap to the release of Jencode v2. Much will change with this release of the next version, so stay tuned for great things. Expected release of version two is late 2002. Beta releases will be made avalible through sourceforge homepage as are earlier releases. Features included in stage will definately be present in version 2 but those in stage 2 may or may not depending on time constraints. Features are vaguely listed in order of importance.

Stage 1

Restructuring of source code

New class design (done)
Implementation documentation/diagrams (done)
Port v1.1 code to v2 format (done)

Offline Ripping

Package support (done)
Import packages
Export packages

CD burning support

Accurate storing of CD contents
Cue sheet writing
MP3 to WAV support (via lame)

Increased ID3v2 usage/support

CD Info (CD contents) (removed)
Rip Info (Scratches etc) (removed)
Encode Info (Version of lame, parameters used) (done)
Custom Genres (done)
Jencode text tag (url) (done)

Config file

Encoding parameters (done)
CDrom drive to be used (done)
Server name (done)
Username/password (done)
Directories to be ripped/encoded/stored to (done)
Genre config file (done)
Config menu (done)

Automation

Multiple cddb results
Multiple cddb server queries (removed)
Sending new results to cddb server
Automatic searching for album covers and reviews

Ability to edit entries

Edit names
Delete albums

Free space monitoring

Status bar display
Warning on low space (removed)
Pause on no space (done)

Improved Interface

Keyboard shortcuts
Main Menu (Jencode, Jedit, createDB etc)
Ability to cancel encoding files
Skins (ya right!)

Purer Java

Removal of discid (use cd paranoia)

Source code formatted correctly

Formatting standard
Java documented
80 character line (done)

Documentation

Installation
Client side
Server side

Stage 2

Port to Windows platform
Web page refinement (done)
DB rebuild (removed)
Quality check (done)
Web admin (done)