Changelog

0.4.2 - 2021-11-16

Accumulated release. Various improvements and bug fix. See details below.

Feature

• Migrate checkpoints from private Google Drive to Github release.
  See here
• Replace opencv

Dependency

• Upgrade Tensorflow version to 2.5.0 for Nvidia 30 series GPU compatibility.
• Upgrade Spleeter version to 2.3.0 for new TF version compatibility.
• Replace Opencv with PIL for drum feature resizing and remove opencv from the dependency.

Enhancement

• Simplify model loading mechanism by unifying the all checkpoint format to use TF format.
• Lazy import extraction functions to boost loading time.
• Change the order of Dockerfile commands for better utilizing cache.

Documentation

• Add notice about compatibility issue of running on certain CPU architecture.
• Add explaination about enabling auto completion.
• Rephrase sentences in paper according to JOSS review feedback.
• Add explaination about installing development dependencies.
• Use pepy as the alternative source for 'download' state badge.

Bugs

• Fix bug of unable to find vocal contour checkpoint.
• Fix bug of fail to custom layers of chord module.
• Fix various unit tests bugs.
• Fix minor linter errors.