sox-14.0.1 2008-01-29
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File formats:
o Added support for non-standard, non-WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE
(esp. 24-bit) PCM wav (see wavpcm in soxformat.7 for details). (robs)
Effects:
o Reimplemented reverb to be similar to freeverb. (robs)
Bug fixes:
o Fix Sndtool read error causing noise at start. (Reynir Stefánsson)
o Fix mixer with >4 numbers, and mixer -3 behaving as mixer -4. (robs)
o Fix [1748909] sox does not report remaining playtime of mp3s. (robs)
o Fix failure to read AIFF files with empty MARK chunk. (robs)
o Fix spurious 'Premature EOF' message in some circumstances. (robs)
o Switched to 16-bit for libao driver since not all its plugins
support it (such as oss, nas, and pulse audio) (Morita Sho)
o Stop crash when "rec" is run with no arguments (Morita Sho).
o Fix -V (without argument) on non-gnu systems. (robs)
o Fix reported (with -V) output audio length in some cases. (robs)
o Fix actual FLAC output file audio length in some cases. (robs)
o Fix poor 24-bit FLAC compression & support newer versions of
libFLAC (1.2.x). (robs)
o Fix loss of 1 decoded FLAC block when using "trim 0 ...". (robs)
o Fix trim when first effect with IMA-ADPCM input wav file. (robs)
Internal improvements:
o Let "make distcheck" run some automated test scripts.
o Distribute missing cmake files.
o Fix ogg vorbis compile error on some platforms.
o Remove unused libltdl that could cause header mismatch with
installed libltdl.
o Fix AMR detection with --disable-shared. (robs)
o Updated configure to support linking to static libraries
on mingw for flac, ogg, and libsamplerate libraries.
sox-14.0.0 2007-09-11
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File formats:
o Added ffmpeg support. (Reuben Thomas)
o FLAC: added seekable decoding; added seek-table generation. (robs)
o Added M3U & PLS playlist formats [FR# 1667341] (Note: SHOUTcast PLS
is only partially supported). (robs)
o Made format readers and writers into individual modules for easier
distribution of differently-licensed code. (Reuben Thomas)
o Added libao support. (Reuben Thomas)
o Added support for ADPCM-encoded PRC files, based on Danny Smith's
rec2wav and sndcmp. (Reuben Thomas)
o Added AMR-NB [FR# 728875] & AMR-WB formats (with external libs). (robs)
o Added LPC-10 support. (Reuben Thomas)
Effects:
o Use LADSPA effects (one input, one output). (Reuben Thomas)
o --octave option changed to --plot; can now also use gnuplot to
plot effect transfer function. (robs)
o Added soft-knee companding. (robs)
o Show (with --plot) compand transfer function. (robs)
o Allow e.g. "vol 6dB" (as well as "vol 6 dB"). (robs)
o Changed deemph filter from 1st order to 2nd order for
better accuracy. (robs)
o Add option to silence effect to leave periods of silence
in and only strip out extra silence. (Mark Schreiber)
o synth can now generate any number of channels. (robs)
o mixer can now mixdown to mono any number of channels. (robs)
o Added oops effect (mixer special case). (robs)
o All effects that could only work on mono or stereo audio, now
work with any number of channels. (robs)
o Added WSOLA-based key and tempo effects. (robs)
Other new features:
o Show (with -S) if clipping is occurring. (robs)
o Added internet input file support (needs wget). (robs)
o Made it possible to build without sound drivers. (Reuben Thomas)
Bug fixes:
o Fix (m)compand transfer function non-linearities; fix compand
drain volume. (robs)
o Fix crash with pan effect. (robs)
o Add missing RM define to Makefiles so installs work.
(Bug# 1666599) (cbagwell)
o Fix I/O performance regression in 13.0.0. (Reuben Thomas)
o Fix .lu, .la read regression in 13.0.0 [Bug# 1715076]. (robs)
o Fix uncompressed NIST/Sphere read regression in v13 [Bug #1736016].
o Fix displayed times when playing a file and using trim. (robs)
o Fix CDDA sector duration display for non-CDDA sample rates. (robs)
o synth fixes: brown noise; inverted square wave; offset < 0. (robs)
o Fix crash when encoding Vorbis or FLAC: with no comment. (robs)
o Fix effect drain problems: chorus, echo(s), phaser. (robs)
o Fix rabbit responsiveness and memory problems. (Peter Samuelson)
o Fix broken stereo audio when recording using ALSA. (robs)
o Fix OSS driver on big endian machines that was introduced in
last release.
Internal improvements:
o Renamed libst to libsox for name recongition and to avoid
duplications with other existing libst libraries. (Reuben Thomas)
o Moved effects to libsfx. (Reuben Thomas)
o Got rid of several hundred compiler warnings. (robs, Reuben Thomas)
o Added basic performance testing of I/O. (Reuben Thomas)
o Effects chain processing now available in libSoX. (robs)
o Added effects-chain buffering for effects that use a window [FR#
1621695]. (robs)
o Added cmake build files for Win32. (robs)
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