audb 1.2.4

Changed: depend on audformat>=0.13.3

Fixed: conversion of pickle protocol 5 files to pickle protocol 4 in cache

Added: more examples to the API docstrings

Changed: depend on audformat>=0.13.2

Changed: use pickle protocol-4 for caching dependencies

Fixed: small improvements to API documentation

Fixed: speed up audb.load_to() storing of CSV files

Fixed: build documentation inside the release process with Python 3.8

Added: support for Python 3.9

Added: store file duration of the database in the duration cache of audformat.Database

Changed: audb.publish() now raises an error if a table contains duplicated index entries

Fixed: several speed ups when loading or publishing a database

Fixed: the root attribute of the returned database object from audb.load_to() does now point to the correct folder and not the temporal folder

Removed: support for Python 3.6

Added: name argument to audb.cached() to limit search to given database name

Changed: speedup audb.available() by 100%

Changed: use audiofile.duration(..., sloppy=True) for estimating durations for dependency files

Fixed: audb.cached() for empty or missing shared cache

Fixed: set bit_depth to 0 instead of None for non SND formats in the dependency table

Fixed: store metadata in dependency table for non SND formats like MP3 and MP4 files

Added: documentation sub-section on database duration info

Fixed: made compatible with future versions of pandas

Fixed: missing audb.Repository documentation

Fixed: audb.load() raises now error for wrong keyword argument

Fixed: look also in shared cache for partial loaded databases

Fixed: version number shown in the documentation table of content

Added: discussion of needed system packages for handling audio files in the documentation

Changed: allow only to publish portable databases

Fixed: macOS support by relying on new audresample version

Added: audb.load_media()

Added: audb.load_table()

Added: documentation on how to configure access rights for shared cache folder

Changed: speedup audb.Dependencies methods

Changed: speedup audb.info functions

Changed: audb.info uses cache as well

Changed: use emodb 1.1.1 in documentation

Changed: depend on audformat>=0.11.0

Fixed: allow audb.load() to work offline if database is cached

Fixed: update removal version of deprecated stuff to 1.2.0

Added: audb.Dependencies._remove()

Changed: audb.Dependencies internally uses pd.DataFrame instead of dict

Changed: store dependencies with pickle to speed up loading

Changed: versions of the same flavor share dependency file

Changed: if possible audb.load() copies tables and media files from other versions in the cache

Changed: audb.Dependencies._add_media() is now private

Changed: audb.Dependencies._add_meta() is now private

Changed: audb.Dependencies.is_removed renamed to audb.Dependencies.removed

Fixed: audb.load() considers format when searching the cache

Fixed: audb.load() considers format when resolving missing media

Fixed: audb.available() correctly returns versions of the same database from multiple repositories

Fixed: add missing link to emodb example repository

Removed: audb.Dependencies.data

Changed: audb.Dependencies.bit_depth() now always returns an integer

Changed: audb.Dependencies.channels() now always returns an integer

Changed: audb.Dependencies.duration() now always returns a float

Changed: audb.Dependencies.sampling_rate() now always returns an integer

Fixed: audb.info.duration() for databases that contain files with a duration of 0s

Fixed: remove dependency to fire package

Fixed: docstring of audb.exists() falsely claimed that it was not returning a boolean

Fixed: several typos in documentation

Fixed: renamed latest_only argument of audb.available() to only_latest as it was before

Fixed: appearance of documentation TOC by requirering docutils<0.17

Added: first public release

Added: audb.info.author()

Added: audb.info.license()

Added: audb.info.license_url()

Added: audb.info.organization()

Added: audb.Dependencies.archives property

Added: section on publication in the documentation

Added: introduction texts to documentation

Changed: raise error for conversion of non-supported format

Changed: audb.exists() to return bool

Changed: rename audb.lookup_repository() to audb.repository()

Changed: one combined section on load in the documentation

Fixed: data types in dataframe returned by audb.cached()

Fixed: support files stored in archives with nested folders

Fixed: listing of cache entries

Removed: command line interface

Removed: audb.cached_databases()

Removed: audb.define module

Added: complete column in audb.cached()

Added: previous_version argument to audb.publish()

Added: backward compatibility with audb <0.90

Changed: cache flavor path to name/version/flavor_id

Changed: use open source releases of audbackend, audobject, and audresample

Changed: require audformat>=0.10.0

Changed: rename audb.load_original_to() to audb.load_to()

Changed: shorten flavor ID in cache

Changed: filter operations and only_metadata no longer part of audb.Flavor

Deprecated: include and excldue arguments

Fixed: looking for latest version across repositories

Fixed: Flavor.destination for nested paths

Fixed: allow for cross-backend dependencies for audb.publish()

Fixed: audb.remove_media() can now be called several times

Changed: enforce mixdown=False for mono file flavors

Fixed: global config file was missing in PyPI package

Added: configuration file

Changed: use external package for backend implementations

Added: audb.Backend.latest_version()

Added: audb.Backend.create()

Added: audb.Backend.register()

Added: audb.lookup_repository()

Added: config.REPOSITORY_PUBLISH

Fixed: update fire dependency

Fixed: remove config.GROUP_ID

Fixed: use sphinx>=3.5.1 to fix inherited attributes in documentation

Changed: define data types when reading dependency file

Added: data-provate-local to the default repositories

Fixed: CHANGELOG

Added: initial release