pkgsrc/audio/sox
wiz 2bbc146572 Update to 14.0.1. Reenable flac support.
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)
2008-04-27 08:19:54 +00:00
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distinfo Update to 14.0.1. Reenable flac support. 2008-04-27 08:19:54 +00:00
Makefile Update to 14.0.1. Reenable flac support. 2008-04-27 08:19:54 +00:00
options.mk Update to 14.0.1. Reenable flac support. 2008-04-27 08:19:54 +00:00
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