Simply return an empty WritableBuffer, not a nulled one.

Preparation for cross-fading support in the output thread.

Apply the replay gain in the output thread.  This means a new setting
will be active instantly, without going through the whole music pipe.
And we might have different replay gain settings for each audio output
device.

After we've been hit by Large File Support problems several times in
the past week (which only occur on 32 bit platforms, which I don't
have), this is yet another attempt to fix the issue.

Check the validity of the audio_format during write operations.

This updates the copyright header to all be the same, which is
pretty much an update of where to mail request for a copy of the GPL
and the years of the MPD project. This also puts all committers under
'The Music Player Project' umbrella. These entries should go
individually in the AUTHORS file, for consistancy.

In !NDEBUG, remember which audio_format is stored in every chunk and
every pipe.  Check the audio_format of every new data block appended
to the music_chunk, and the format of every new chunk appended to the
music_pipe.

Moved some code from music_pipe_write() and music_pipe_expand().  Only
music_chunk.c should access the music_chunk internals.

The new generic encoder API will replace shout's custom encoder API.

This patch implements the MMS protocol, by using libmms.  It is quite
experimental: it does not support seeking yet, and it is currently
using synchronous I/O, which causes MPD to hang while waiting for the
server.

In generic PCM functions allowing all sample formats, pass a void
pointer instead of a char pointer.

Moved the software mixing code (used by crossfading) to a separate
library.

Don't use libc's rand() function, because it is slow.  Our own trivial
linear congruential generator is good enough for dithering.

redirect_stdin() is a daemonization function, and disconnecting from
the standard input is always a good idea for MPD.

Prepare for the migration to the GLib option parser, which uses
gboolean for flags.

"LOG_H" is a macro which is also used by ffmpeg/log.h.  This is
ffmpeg's fault, because short macros should be reserved for
applications, but since it's always a good idea to choose prefixed
macro names, even for applications, we are going to do that in MPD.

When there are standardized headers, use these instead of the bloated
os_compat.h.

Similar to decoder_control.c, output_control.c will provide functions
for controlling the output thread (which will be implemented later).

This function is declared, but is neither used nor implemented.

Instead of having to register each output plugin, store them
statically in an array.  This eliminates the need for the List library
here, and saves some small allocations during startup.