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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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Note: flac support is not enabled because sox-13.0.0 only supports
the old obsolete API; pkgsrc has newer flac.
sox-13.0.0
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File formats:
o Support for .caf, .paf, .fap, .nist, .w64, .nist, Matlab 4.2/5.0
(Octave 2.0/2.1), .pvf, .sds, .sd2 and .xi file formats via libsndfile.
If available, libsndfile can also be used to handle all the other file
formats it understands. (Reuben Thomas)
o Add FLAC support (robs@users.sf.net)
o Support Maxis's XA format. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
o Add support for 24-bit PCM raw, wav (WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE) [FR# 801015],
au, aiff, & flac files. (robs)
o Add AIFF-C output support. (shashimoto)
o New .ima file format for raw IMA ADPCM. (robs)
o Allow the rate and number of channels of .au files to be overridden
by command-line arguments. (robs@users.sf.net)
o Add seek support for GSM data in WAV files. Rafal Maszkowski
o Allow encoding quality to be specified (FLAC & Ogg, but not
MP3 yet). (robs)
o Rename -b to -1, -w to -2, -l to -4, -d to -8, and mask to dither.
(robs)
o New options for specifying endianness (and separate options for
nibble & bit reversal) [FR# 1621702]. (robs)
o Improved multi-channel file reading; fixes [1599990]. (robs)
Effects:
o Equalizer effect (Pascal Giard)
o bass and treble altering effects. (robs)
o New optional rabbit resample routine, using libsamplerate
(aka Secret Rabbit Code). (Reuben Thomas)
o Added allpass filter effect. (robs)
o Documented the butterworth filter effects; added variable Q. (robs)
o "rate" effect made an alias for "resample".
o Visualisation of various filters' frequency response via Octave. (robs)
o Can now specify width of many 2nd-order filters as: Hz, octaves,
or Q. (robs)
o Dither/mask amount now specifiable. (robs)
o Consistent (and hopefully complete) clipping detection and
reporting. (robs)
o Allow command-line time parameters of < 1 sec to omit the
leading 0. (robs)
o Improved synth usage and improved the synth entry in the man-
page. (robs)
o Higher quality audio speed adjustment; also fixes [1155364]. (robs)
o Replacement flanger effect; also fixes [1393245]. (robs)
o Added silence padding effect. (robs)
o Added ability for noiseprof to use stdout and noisered to use stdin
[FR# 1621694]. (Reuben Thomas)
o vibro effect name deprecated in favour of tremolo; this effect
reimplemented as a special case of synth. (robs)
Other new features:
o Remove soxmix. (Reuben Thomas)
o Preview mode now removed, as all it did was use rate rather than
resample, and rate has been removed.
o -V now gives only user-relevant messages, use -V -V to get
developer-relevant messages. (robs)
o -V output much improved and expanded; now includes display of
(auto-)selected effects. (robs)
o sox man-page overhaul, new soxexam man-page entries. (robs)
o Added command line options for specifying the output file
comment. (robs)
o Added ability to merge e.g. 2 mono files to 1 stereo file
[FR# 1297076]. (robs)
o Removed the restrictions whereby multiple input files had to have
the same data encoding & size, and in most situations where they
had to have the same # of channels, and for play where they had
to have the same sampling-rate. (robs)
o Options to apply replay-gain on input; enabled by default
with `play'. (robs)
o Can now use Ctrl-C to skip to next track when playing multiple
files (e.g. play *.mp3); Ctrl-C twice to exit. (robs)
o Added --interactive option to prompt to overwrite pre-existing
output file. (robs)
o Added large file support. (Reuben Thomas)
Bug fixes:
o Fix writing MP3 files on AMD64 processors.
o More fixes to MP3 tag reading. Sometimes tags were
detected as valid MP3 frames.
o Fix to stop, avoiding a crash, when starting of effects fails.
(Reuben Thomas)
o Fixed a bug introduced in 12.18.2 that stopped the draining
of effects from occuring. This had stopped the reverse effect,
among others, from working. (Reuben Thomas)
o Several effects are now optimised out in situations where they need
do nothing, e.g. changing rate from 8000 to 8000, or changing volume
by 0dB [Bug# 1395781]. (robs)
o Fix rounding error when reading command-line time
parameters. (robs)
o Fix nul file hander ignoring other format options if rate
option has not been given. (robs)
o Fix synth length accuracy. (robs)
o Fix broken audio when downmixing with any of the following
effects: synth, deemph, vibro. (robs)
o Fixed deemph & earwax effects to work with MP3, vorbis,
& FLAC. (robs)
o Fix wav file handler discarding the last PCM sample in certain
circumstances. (robs)
o Fix [1627972] AIFF read bug when MARK chunk present. (Richard Fuller)
o Fix [1160154] VOX to WAV conversion problem. (robs)
o Removed (for output file only) the potentially
problematic -v option. Use the vol effect instead. (robs)
o Improved the accuracy of integer and floating point PCM
conversions. (robs)
o Don't go into a loop on zero-padded WAVs. (Jorge Serna)
o Fix to AIFF writing to avoid writing invalid files in some situations.
(Reuben Thomas)
o Fix compander effect bugs: [1613030] Compand fails to compress
clipping, [1181423] compand with 0 sec attack/release. (robs)
Internal improvements:
o More and better self-tests. (robs@users.sf.net)
o Build system overhaul to use the full set of GNU autotools.
(Reuben Thomas)
o Add new getopt1.c to win32 project file.
o Remove old, optional rate change and alaw/ulaw conversion code.
(Reuben Thomas)
o Removed the old internally invoked (but mentioned in the man page)
copy effect. (robs)
sox-12.18.2
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o Adding in Debian's disk full fix (#313206).
o Finally got rid of reference to cleanup() function in
library. Applications are now required to detect
all failures from return codes and cleanup as they
want.
o Changed how list of formats and effects are stored internally.
Effects libst users only. Dirk
o Store effects usage so that its accessable by applications.
Dirk
o Modify the synth effect to not use SIGINT to stop processing
and instead return ST_EOF. This allows exact acount of
samples to be written out instead of an approximate amount.
o Fix hangup when attempting to write stereo MP3 files.
(1512218) Kendrick Shaw
o Deemp effect would lose stereo separation. (1479249)
o Adding cross-platform support for getopt_long
o Make help screens print much more information and add
new --help-effect option. (Originally from Dirk).
o Add support for using an external gsm library instead of
just the internal one. Vladimir Nadvornik
o Updates to nul file handler to prevent crashes during output.
Martin Panter (1482869)
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