diff --git a/Help/Makefile b/Help/Makefile
--- a/Help/Makefile
+++ b/Help/Makefile
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 
 clean:
 	rm -f *.o *.hi browse parser play plot stat
+	rm curve*.gp curve*.dat
diff --git a/README b/README
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 hmatrix, gnuplot and hsc3.
 
   meapsoft: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/meapsoft/
-  hmeap: http://slavepianos.org/rd/f/896678/
+  hmeap: http://slavepianos.org/rd/
 
-(c) rohan drape, 2007-2009
+(c) rohan drape and others, 2007-2010
     gpl.2, http://gnu.org/copyleft/
+    with contributions by stefan kersten
+    see darcs history for details
diff --git a/Sound/Analysis/Meapsoft/Data.hs b/Sound/Analysis/Meapsoft/Data.hs
--- a/Sound/Analysis/Meapsoft/Data.hs
+++ b/Sound/Analysis/Meapsoft/Data.hs
@@ -2,12 +2,19 @@
 
 import Data.Array.Unboxed
 import qualified Data.ByteString as B
+import           Data.ByteString.Char8 (unpack)
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lex.Double as B
 import qualified Text.Delimited as D
 
+read_inf :: String -> Double
+read_inf s = case s of
+                "Infinity"  ->  1/0
+                "-Infinity" -> -1/0
+                _ -> error ("Could not read " ++ show s)
+
 to_f :: B.ByteString -> Double
-to_f s = fst (maybe undefined id (B.readDouble s))
+to_f s = maybe (read_inf (unpack s)) fst (B.readDouble s)
 
 -- | Given the number of columns, reads an entire MEAPsoft data set
 --   into an 'UArray' and returns the data paired with the number of
diff --git a/hmeap.cabal b/hmeap.cabal
--- a/hmeap.cabal
+++ b/hmeap.cabal
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 Name:              hmeap
-Version:           0.7
+Version:           0.8
 Synopsis:          Haskell Meapsoft Parser
 Description:       Parser for the anaylsis files produced by the
                    Meapsoft feature extractor.
 License:           GPL
 Category:          Sound
-Copyright:         Rohan Drape, 2007-2009
+Copyright:         Rohan Drape, 2007-2010
 Author:            Rohan Drape
 Maintainer:        rd@slavepianos.org
 Stability:         Experimental
-Homepage:          http://slavepianos.org/rd/f/896678/
-Tested-With:       GHC == 6.8.2
+Homepage:          http://slavepianos.org/rd/?t=hmeap
+Tested-With:       GHC == 6.10.3
 Build-Type:        Simple
 Cabal-Version:     >= 1.6
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 Library
   Build-Depends:   array,
-                   base == 3.*,
+                   base == 4.*,
                    bytestring,
                    bytestring-lexing,
                    delimited-text >= 0.1.0,
@@ -35,3 +35,7 @@
                    Sound.Analysis.Meapsoft.Measure
                    Sound.Analysis.Meapsoft.Header
                    Sound.Analysis.Meapsoft.Data
+
+Source-Repository  head
+  Type:            darcs
+  Location:        http://slavepianos.org/rd/sw/hmeap