THANKS

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id3lib THANKS file

See the AUTHORS file for a list of current project maintainers.

Since version 3.05a, several individuals have helped further the development of
id3lib.  They are listed below, in no particular order.  Please inform the
current project maintainer if anyone has been missed.

* Baz (thebaz@pluizig.com) for creating a patch to get vbr info.
* Tobias Hoppe (choppe@cs.uni-magdeburg.de) for providing a better way to
  get the framesize.
* Philipp Thomas (pthomas@suse.de) for help with compiling id3lib for gcc 3.2,
  and make it better compliant with libstdc++ 
* John George (johngeorge_k@asianetindia.com) for donating a number of routines
  in misc_support.cpp.
* Frog Prince (thefrogprince@hotmail.com) for helping with compatibility issues
  for VB and Delphi
* Simon Ferrett (simon@musicmatch.com) made the id3lib.org domain point to our
  project page. He also kindly created an email alias.
* Kamran (kamran@musicmatch.com) fixed several bugs in MusicMatch's internal 
  version of ID3Lib which were merged into the current public version of 
  id3lib.
* Alexander Voronin (av@oskarsb.ru) has submitted several patches to fix a 
  variety of bugs.
* John Adcock (johnadcock@hotmail.com) provided the COM wrapper and lib 
  projects for id3lib, the VB test app for id3com.dll, as well as several
  bugfixes and improvements.
* Myers W. Carpenter (myers@fil.org) has submitted a patch for improving the
  interface and functionality of the library.
* Justin Rogers (justin@mlstoday.com) has provided much valuable conversation
  as to the design and implementation of id3lib.
* Mark B. Elrod (elrod@liquidmetal.com) has provided several patches for better
  win32 functionality.
* Scott Moser (smoser@brickies.net) provided the php translation of the 
  original ID3Lib manual
* Robert Moon (rob@emusic.com) provided tremendous help getting the C interface
  up to speed, as well as providing bugfixes for the Windows projects.
* Lothar Egger (lothar.egger@chello.at) also assisted in fixing the Windows
  projects, as well as providing assistance for testing the dlls under Windows
* Severino Delaurenti (id3lib@castlems.com) added functionality for parsing
  Lyrics3 v1.0 and v2.0 tags, as well as improving synchronized lyric frame 
  (SYLT) dramatically.
* Michael Little (mike@netlinear.com) provided the delphi code for use with 
  id3com.
* Peter Luijer (videoripper@hotmail.com) provided much useful documentation
  on the MusicMatch tagging format.
* Steven Frank (stevenf@users.sourceforge.net) provided invaluable help in 
  tracking down runtime bugs for the Macintosh port.
* The following individuals have assisted by providing bug reports and (often)
  suggestions for fixes:
  - Ben Noblet (Ben.Noblet@xt3.com.au)
  - Benedikt Roth (Benedikt.Roth@gmx.net)
  - Christian Becker (chris@craze.de)
  - Daryl Pawluk (dpawluk@home.com)
  - John Firebaugh (jfirebaugh@mac.com)
  - John Southerland (jbsouthe@home.com)
  - Luca Leonardo Scorcia (scrlln@tin.it)
  - Peter Thorstenson (swede@openlink.com.br)
  - Sasa Ðolic (sasad@moderngroove.com)
  - Steven Frank (stevenf@users.sourceforge.net)
  - Tim Newsome (nuisance@cmu.edu)

Dirk Mahoney included the following at the end of his documentation on ID3Lib
3.05a.  It is included in verbatim here.

  Special Thanks and Credits

  I would like to extend my many thanks to the people who have contributed to
  the ID3Lib project.  The show of support has been tremendous.  I consider
  ID3Lib to be a very 'international' product, as contributions have come from
  almost literally every corner of the globe.  If I have missed you, please
  forgive my lapse of memory.

  * Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler - for their great zlib compression library
    and for making it free.
  * Tord Jansson - for much help with teaching me how to make and use DLLs.
  * Slava Karpenko for creating the MacOS static link libraries for the PowerPC
    and CodeWarrior.
  * Bob Kohn - for his advice, input, and generally creating the ID3Lib license
    agreement.
  * Eng-Keong Lee - for finding a few bugs and for extensively testing ID3Lib
    2.xx.
  * James Lin - for his 'ID3v2 Programming Guidelines', and many helpful
    suggestions
  * Michael Mutschler - for prompting me to write the Unicode support and for
    his input on the ID3Lib calling convention.
  * Martin Nilsson - for ID3v2, his support of the ID3Lib web page, for many,
    many suggestions, debates, pointers, URLs, documents, and brightly coloured
    fish.
  * Chris Nunn - for the 3D animated ID3v2 logos which appear in the ID3Lib web
    page and in the distribution.
  * Lachlan Pitts - for general implementation ideas and his brief but helpful
    work on the up-coming genre tree.
  * Jukka Poikolainen - for prompting to implement error handling via the C++
    exception handling mechanism instead of the old 2.xx-style of using an 
    error handling function.
  * Carson Puchol - for his help with some minor Linux compilation hassles.
  * Andreas Sigfridsson - for his initial code for the unsync/resync support
    and for his very valuable input in long brainstorming sessions.
  * Michael Robertson - for helping support ID3Lib by posting announcements on
    MP3.com.
  * Ilana Rudnik - for bug finding and suggestions.
  * Chuck Zenkus - for his support of ID3v2 and ID3Lib by providing us with a
    mirror in the United States and for his bug finding and suggestions.
  * And last but by no means least, all the others who support ID3Lib by 
    subscribing to the mailing list and to the contributors to the discussions
    and debates in the ID3v2 discussion group.

  Without the help of all these people, ID3Lib would not be as good as it is, 
  and I dare say might not even exist if they all weren't around to provide
  motivation to continue to write the thing!
  
  - Dirk Mahoney
  22 November 1998
  Brisbane, Australia