The old struct config_param remains only for top-level string options.

For type safety and code readability.

Reduce header dependencies.

Eliminate the temporary buffer, do I/O right into the WritableBuffer.

The "loop_count" configuration parameter allows the user to set how
many times a module with backward loops shall loop. "0" (the default)
means a module is not allowed to use backward loops at all. "-1"
enables inifinite looping.

Decouple some more from GLib.

Prepare to migrate away from GLib.  Currently, we're still using GLib
as a backend.

Since Debian package 1:0.8.8.4-4, the pkg-config file does not contain
-I/usr/include/libmodplug anymore, and we need to add the
"libmodplug/" prefix to the #include line.

Hide the definition from C code, to prepare the transition to C++.

Pass a callback table to scan_file() and scan_stream(), instead of
returning a tag object.

Add GMutex, GCond attributes which will be used by callers to
conditionally wait on the stream.

Remove the (now-useless) plugin method buffer(), wait on GCond
instead.  Lock the input_stream before each method call.  Do the same
with the playlist plugins.

Make it X_decoder_plugin.c.

This function replaces the replay_gain_info parameter for
decoder_data().  This allows the decoder to announce replay gain
changes, instead of having to pass the same object over and over.

This patch changes the following decoder plugins to implement
stream_tag() instead of tag_dup():

 faad, ffmpeg, mad, modplug, mp4ff, mpcdec, oggflac

This simplifies their code, because they do not need to take care of
opening/closing the stream.

Remove the data_time parameter from decoder_data().  This patch
eliminates the timestamp counting in most decoder plugins, because the
MPD core will do it automatically by default.

This patch prepares support for floating point samples (and probably
other formats).  It changes the meaning of the "bits" attribute from a
bit count to a symbolic value.

Don't maintain the current time stamp in a floating point variable,
because this is subject to rounding errors.

More exact total time.