PhatBeat 1.1 Release Notes
	Copyright © 2004 John Chatterton-Papineau 
	<chattj AT postreal.org>

This software is released under the terms of the GNU General 
Public License, as found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt 
or as src/gpl.txt in this distribution. Other licensing 
arangements may be made by contacting the author. No 
representations are made about the suitability of this software 
for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or 
implied warranty.

	Details:

PhatBeat aims to be a simple, attractive, cross-platform beat 
counter for use by collectors, producers, DJs, and others 
interested in beat-oriented music. For now it requires users to 
tap in the beat during listening, after which it calculates and 
displays the track's BPM and the size of a measure in seconds. 

Possible feature additions include being able to listen to the 
computer's audio input and do BPM calculations from it, as well 
as fitting in WindowMaker-style application docks.

While the program is running, pressing A will give the program 
an All Clear, resetting it. Pressing Q exits immediately. Any
other key taps in a beat. That is, to determine the BPM of a 
track, tap any key eight times with the beat, and it will be
displayed in the main readout. The number of beats to count 
can be raised higher than eight if necessary, and the number
of beats in each measure can be changed to make the seconds
per measure readout correct.

	Installation:

Windows users should run the installer executable, currently 
named PhatBeat-1.0-setup.exe, which includes an install wizard 
created in Inno Setup 4 (www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). The
current Windows release is 1.0 compared to the Unix release of
1.1 because the .1 release contains only bugfixes for Unix.

Linux users will want to untar the PhatBeat-1.1.tar.gz file in 
their home directories, which will create a similarly named 
directory with the source. From there a simple `make;make install` 
as root should suffice to install the program. If a customized 
installation or compile is desired, the standard `make clean; 
make` should work. Users may edit the Makefile if installation 
to /usr/local is not desired.

PhatBeat's X11 interface makes use of the SDL and SDL_image 
libraries, so these must be installed before compilation of that
program will complete. The console beat counter should compile
fine without anything beyond the standard C++ libraries.

For reference, the Windows binary is named 'phat_win.exe', and 
the linux binaries are 'phatx' for the X version and 'phatbeat' 
for the interactive console version.

	Portability:

PhatBeat is known to compile under Windows in the cygwin 
environment, and on Redhat Linux versions 8 and 9. Details on 
this are in the commentary within the makefile. Other 
platforms supporting the GNU toolchain will probably not have 
problems compiling either. Binary releases for Windows and 
x86 Linux should be available at the PhatBeat home page, 
http://www.postreal.org/phatbeat.