1Change History 2-------------- 3 4This file contains a list of all changes starting after the release of 5sox-11gamma, followed by a list of prior authors and features. 6 7$ox-14.4.2 2015-02-22 8---------- 9 10Previously deprecated features that have been removed in this release: 11 12 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] 13 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement 14 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- 15 14.3.0 O -1/-2/-3/-4/-8 -b 16 14.3.0 O -s/-u/-f -e 17 14.3.0 O -A/-U/-o/-i/-a/-g -e 18 14.4.0 E swap with parameters remix 19 14.4.0 E mixer remix 20 14.4.1 OpenMP < 3.0 OpenMP >= 3.0 21 14.4.1 F ffmpeg ffmpeg/avconv via pipe 22 23File formats: 24 25 o Add optional support for reading Ogg Opus files. (John Stumpo) 26 o Fix for max size text chunks in aiff files. (cbagwell) 27 o Add reading support for RF64 WAV files. (Dave Lambley) 28 o Work around for libsndfile created RF64 files with invalid 29 sizes. (Dave Lambley) 30 o Detect MS ADPCM WAV files with invalid blocks. (cbagwell) 31 o Detect Sphere files with invalid header sizes. (cbagwell) 32 33Effects: 34 35 o 'Deemph' can now also be used at 48kHz sample rate. (robs) 36 o 'Rate' now much faster in many cases. (robs) 37 o Allow sending spectrograms to stdout. (Ulrich Klauer) 38 o Allow use of Dolph window with spectrograms. (robs) 39 o Allow mixing time and sample-count arguments for the delay 40 effect, and for spectrogram -S and -d. (Ulrich Klauer) 41 o Support multi-channel LADSPA plugins. (Eric Wong) 42 o Support infinite repetition with repeat. (Ulrich Klauer) 43 o Improved pink noise frequency response in synth. (robs) 44 o Extended syntax for specifying audio positions to several 45 effects. (Ulrich Klauer) 46 o Fix integer overflow in mcompand. [3590093] (Guido Aulisi) 47 o Add optional latency compenstation for LADSPA plugins. (Eric Wong) 48 49Other new features: 50 51 o New -p option for soxi to display sample precision. (Ulrich Klauer) 52 o New libsox example6: give explicit output attributes. (robs) 53 54Internal improvements: 55 56 o Speed optimization for effects that operate on channels 57 independently. (Ulrich Klauer) 58 o Fix memory leaks. (Ulrich Klauer) 59 o Most internal symbols (lsx_*) are no longer exported. (Ulrich Klauer) 60 61 62sox-14.4.1 2013-02-01 63---------- 64 65Newly deprecated features (to be removed in future): 66 67 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] Removal 68 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement due after 69 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ------- 70 14.4.1 OpenMP < 3.0 OpenMP >= 3.0 14.4.1 71 14.4.1 F ffmpeg ffmpeg/avconf via pipe 14.4.1 72 73File formats: 74 75 o Fix pipe file-type detection regression. (robs) 76 o MAUD write fixes. [3507927] (Carl Eric Codere and Ulrich Klauer) 77 o Fix crash when seeking within a FLAC file. [3476843] (Eric Wong) 78 o Fix Ogg Vorbis files with certain numbers of channels being 79 truncated. (Ulrich Klauer) 80 o Fix reading 64-bit float WAVs. [3481510] (nu774 and Ulrich Klauer) 81 o Fix potential buffer overrun when writing FLAC files directly via 82 sox_write(). [3474924] (Eric Wong) 83 84Audio device drivers: 85 86 o Check whether pulseaudio is available before choosing it as 87 default. (robs) 88 89Effects: 90 91 o Restore 8 seconds default for spectrogram, if the input length is 92 not known. (Ulrich Klauer) 93 o Set output length for splice to unknown instead of 0. (Ulrich Klauer) 94 o Increase maximum width for spectrograms. (Ulrich Klauer) 95 o Fix memory leaks in LADSPA effect. (Eric Wong) 96 o Fix hang in several effects (rate, tempo, and those based on 97 dft_filter) when processing long files. [3592482, 3594822] (MrMod) 98 o Prevent (m)compand from tampering with their arguments. (Ulrich Klauer) 99 100Other bug fixes: 101 102 o Fix input length calculation for combine methods other than 103 concatenate. (Ulrich Klauer) 104 o Fix to configure.ac to work with Autoconf 2.69. [3600293] (cbagwell) 105 o Use binary mode for pipes on all Windows compilers, rather than 106 MSVC only. [3602130] (Ulrich Klauer) 107 108 109sox-14.4.0 2012-03-04 110---------- 111 112Previously deprecated features that have been removed in this release: 113 114 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] 115 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement 116 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- 117 14.3.0 O --interactive --no-clobber 118 14.3.0 E filter ~= sinc 119 14.3.0 E norm -b, norm -i gain -B, gain -en 120 14.3.0 PLAY_RATE_ARG SOX_OPTS 121 14.2.0 E key alias pitch 122 14.2.0 E pan ~= remix 123 14.1.0 E resample alias rate 124 14.1.0 E polyphase alias rate 125 14.1.0 E rabbit alias rate 126 14.3.1 F sndfile: sndfile 1.0.11 sndfile > 1.0.11 127 14.3.0 F flac: libFLAC < 1.1.3 libFLAC >= 1.1.3 128 14.3.1 F mp3: lame 3.97 lame > 3.97 129 130Newly deprecated features (to be removed in future): 131 132 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] Removal 133 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement due after 134 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ------- 135 14.4.0 E mixer remix 14.4.0 + 1 year 136 14.4.0 E swap with parameters remix 14.4.0 137 138Previously deprecated features (to be removed in future): 139 140 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] Removal 141 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement due after 142 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ------- 143 14.3.0 O -1/-2/-3/-4/-8 -b 14.4.0 144 14.3.0 O -s/-u/-f -e 14.4.0 145 14.3.0 O -A/-U/-o/-i/-a/-g -e 14.4.0 146 147File formats: 148 149 o Mention in man pages that WAV files support floating point encodings. 150 o Add support for floating point encodings in AIFF-C files. (Ulrich Klauer) 151 o Pad WAV data chunk to an even number of bytes (as required by the 152 specification). [3203418] (Ulrich Klauer) 153 o Add optional MP2 write support with twolame library. (Paul Kelly) 154 155Audio device drivers: 156 157 o Give pulseaudio driver higher priority than alsa or oss now that 158 its proven stable and gives user more features; such as per app 159 volume control. (cbagwell) 160 o Fix bug when specifying OSX coreaudio device name. Would only 161 search for first 3 devices. (cbagwell) 162 o Fix sox hangups are exit when using coreaudio. (cbagwell) 163 o Improve buffering in coreaudio driver (Michael Chen) 164 o Support enabling play/rec mode when user invokes sox as either 165 play or play.exe on windows. (cbagwell) 166 o Fix compile of sunaudio driver on OpenBSD (cbagwell) 167 168Effects: 169 170 o Improvements to man pages for tempo effect. Really made in 14.3.2. 171 (Jim Harkins). 172 o New upsample effect. (robs) 173 o Fix to effects pipeline to let fade effect specify time from end of 174 file again. (cbagwell and Thor Andreassen) 175 o Fix man page default error for splice effect. (Ulrich Klauer) 176 o Enable support for --plot option on biquad and fir effects. (Ulrich Klauer) 177 o Effects chain can now be unlimited in length. (Ulrich Klauer) 178 o Fix newfile/restart effects when merging or mixing files. (Ulrich Klauer) 179 o Fix crashes in compand and mcompand effects. [3420893] (Ulrich Klauer) 180 o Let the delay effect gracefully handle the special case that a delay can 181 be more than the input length. [3055399] (Ulrich Klauer) 182 o New hilbert and downsample effects. (Ulrich Klauer) 183 o Fix problem where fade would sometimes fail if specifying a fade-out 184 immediately after a fade-in. (robs) 185 o Stricter syntax checking for several effects (might reveal bugs hidden 186 in existing scripts). (Ulrich Klauer) 187 o Calculate output audio length for most effects. (Ulrich Klauer) 188 o Fix problems with several effects when the buffer size was not evenly 189 divisible by the number of channels. [3420899] (Ulrich Klauer) 190 o Complete rewrite of the trim effect with extended syntax (backwards 191 compatible) and capabilities. [FR 2941349] (Ulrich Klauer) 192 o Fix trim optimization unexpectedly seeking backwards. (Ulrich Klauer) 193 o Prevent samples from getting lost at effects chain transitions in 194 multiple effects chain/multiple output modes. (Ulrich Klauer) 195 196Misc: 197 198 o Minor improvements to the man page. (Ulrich Klauer) 199 o When using pipes (-p) on Windows, set file mode to binary. (cbagwell) 200 o Updated .dat format description in soxformat. (Jan Stary) 201 o Doxygen documentation for libSoX. (Doug Cook) 202 203Other bug fixes: 204 205 o Fix several memory leaks. [3309913] (Jin-Myung Won and Ulrich Klauer) 206 o Fixed crashes in apps that call sox_format_init/quit() multiple times. 207 (cbagwell) 208 209Internal improvements: 210 211 o Added use_threads variable to sox_globals. This should be used to enable 212 or disable use of parallel effects processing instead of directly calling 213 omp_set_num_threads. (Doug Cook) 214 o Fix compiler warnings. (Cristian Morales Vega [P. 3072301], Doug Cook) 215 o Improve large file support by using 64-bit numbers to count 216 samples. (Doug Cook, Thor Andreassen, Ulrich Klauer) 217 218 219sox-14.3.2 2011-02-27 220---------- 221 222File formats: 223 224 o Add seek support to mp3 handler for speed improvements. (Pavel Karneliuk) 225 o Fix bug were WavPack header was not updated correctly when closing 226 file. Fixed libsox memory leak when closing WavPack files. 227 (David Bryant) 228 o Fix RIFF chunk length error when writing 24-bit files. (David Bryant) 229 o 24-bit WAV files were leaving channel maps unassigned. Change to use 230 common channel mappings based on channel count. This allows to 231 work more seemlessly with other apps such as WavPack and Foobar2000. 232 (David Bryant) 233 o Fix ffmpeg playback bug caused by alignment requirements on some platforms. 234 Closes bug #3017690. (Reuben Thomas). 235 o Fix memory leak in ffmpeg. (Doug Cook) 236 o Handle 0 length chunks in WAV files gracefully. (Beat Jorg) 237 o When skipping over chunks, account for word alignment. Helps 238 with some Logic Pro generated files. (D Lambley) 239 o Fix incorrect MP3 file length determination with VBR & .5s initial 240 silence. (robs) 241 242Audio device drivers: 243 244 o Fix immediate segfault on OSX while attempting to record. (Adam Fritzler) 245 o Fix segfault on OSX playback for some HW that gives smaller then 246 requested buffers. (cbagwell) 247 o Clean up system resource in coreaudio on close. Allows running 248 back-to-back open()/close()'s without exiting app first. (cbagwell) 249 o Add support for 32-bit samples to OSS driver. (Eric Lammerts) 250 o Add support for 24 and 32-bit samples to waveaudio (Win32) driver. 251 (Doug Cook) 252 o Support specifying audio device other than default on OSX (cbagwell) 253 254Effects: 255 256 o F.R. [3051700] spectrogram -r for `raw' spectrogram, no legend. (robs) 257 o Fix -w option on stats effect. (Ronald Sprouse) 258 o Fix segfault with some ladspa plugins (Thor Andreassen) 259 o Optionally look for png.h in libpng directory to support OpenBSD 260 packaging. Helps enable spectrograph effect. (cbagwell) 261 o libpng15 requires application to include zlib.h header file. (cbagwell) 262 Add this to spectrograph effect. [3184238] 263 o Enable LADSPA effects on all platforms without any external 264 dependencies. Mainly useful for Linux, Windows and OS X which have 265 binaries readily available. (cbagwell) 266 o Support specifying an absolute end location for trim effect instead 267 only an offset from trim begin location. (Ulrich Klauer) 268 o Fix regression where MP3 handler required libmad headers to be installed. 269 (Samuli Suominen) 270 o Allow dynamic loading of lame to be enabled even if lame header files 271 are not installed. (Doug Cook) 272 273Other new features: 274 275 o Soxi now reports duration of AMR files. (robs) 276 o Document the "multiple" combine option in man pages and in 277 usage output (Ulrich Klauer). 278 279Internal improvements: 280 281 o Distribute msvc9 project files that had been in CVS only. (cbagwell) 282 o Add msvc10 project files (also compatible with the Windows SDK 7.1). 283 (Doug Cook) 284 o cmake now compiles waveaudio driver under windows environment. (cbagwell) 285 [3072672] 286 287sox-14.3.1 2010-04-11 288---------- 289 290Newly deprecated features (to be removed in future): 291 292 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] Removal 293 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement due after 294 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ------- 295 14.3.1 F mp3: lame 3.97 lame > 3.97 2011-04-11 296 14.3.1 F sndfile: sndfile 1.0.11 sndfile > 1.0.11 14.3.1 297 298Previously deprecated features (to be removed in future): 299 300 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] Removal 301 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement due after 302 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ------- 303 14.2.0 E key alias pitch 14.3.1 304 14.2.0 E pan ~= mixer/remix 14.3.1 305 14.3.0 F flac: libFLAC 1.1.2,3 libFLAC > 1.1.3 14.3.1 306 14.3.0 PLAY_RATE_ARG SOX_OPTS 14.3.1 307 14.3.0 E norm -b, norm -i gain -B, gain -en 2010-06-14 308 14.3.0 E filter ~=sinc 2010-06-14 309 14.1.0 E resample alias rate 2010-06-14 310 14.1.0 E polyphase alias rate 2010-06-14 311 14.1.0 E rabbit alias rate 2010-06-14 312 313LibSoX interface changes: 314 315 o Added new variants of sox_open to allow read/write from/to memory 316 buffers (in POSIX 2008 environment); see example5.c. (robs) 317 318File formats: 319 320 o New Grandstream ring-tone (gsrt) format. (robs) 321 o CVSD encode/decode speed-ups. (Kimberly Rockwell, P. Chaintreuil) 322 o Add ability to select MP3 compression parameters. (Jim Harkins) 323 o Now writes out ID3-tags in MP3 files with lame supports it. (Doug Cook) 324 o Also can write VBR Tag ("XING Header") in MP3 files. (Jim Hark / 325 Doug Cook) 326 o Increase percision of MP3 encoders to use 24-bits instead of 327 16-bits. (Doug Cook) 328 o Fix failed writing 24-bit PAF files (and possibly other libsndfile 329 based formats). (cbagwell) 330 o Allow libsndfile to be dlopen()'ed at runtime if --enable-dl-sndfile 331 is used. (Doug Cook) 332 o Allow amr-nb/amr-wb to be dlopen()'ed at runtime if 333 --enable-dl-amrwb or --enable-dl-amrnb is used. (Doug Cook) 334 o amrnb and amrwb formats can optionally use opencore-amr libraries. 335 (cbagwell) 336 337Audio device drivers: 338 339 o Add native windows audio driver. (Pavel Karneliuk, Doug Cook) 340 o Add 32-bit support to ALSA driver. (Pavel Hofman) 341 o Make OpenBSD sndio audio driver default over older sunau driver. 342 (cbagwell) 343 344Effects: 345 346 o Fix [2254919] silence doesn't trim digital silence correctly. (robs) 347 o Fix [2859842] stats effect crashes on 64-bit arch. (Ulrich Klauer) 348 349Other new features: 350 351 o Added libSoX example #4: concatenating audio files. (robs) 352 o Show soxi version & usage information when no args given. (robs) 353 354Other bug fixes: 355 356 o Fix build so that grouped files (e.g. play -r 6k "*.vox" plays all 357 at 6k) works. (robs) 358 o Fix build to support auto file type detection with pipes on FreeBSD 359 and elsewhere. (Dan Nelson) 360 o Fix simultaneous play & rec not working. (robs) 361 o Fix multi-threading problems on multi-core Windows OS; also, change 362 default to single-threaded. 363 o Fix mistaken file size with pipe input on Windows. (Doug Cook) 364 o Fix missing documentation for -R (repeatable), and pulseaudio driver. 365 o Fix memory leak of format private data. (Slawomir Testowy) 366 367Internal improvements: 368 369 o Move bit-rot detection support files to sub-directory (could 370 previously cause build problems). (robs) 371 o [2859244] Fixes to improve compatibility with MSVC. (Doug Cook) 372 o Added utilities to help any format handler dlopen() external 373 libraries at run time instead of link time. (Doug Cook) 374 o Compiling with mingw now has feature parity with cygwin. (Doug Cook 375 and cbagwell) 376 377 378 379sox-14.3.0 2009-06-14 380---------- 381 382Previously deprecated features that have been removed in this release: 383 384 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] 385 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement 386 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- 387 14.1.0 E resample * ~= rate 388 14.1.0 E polyphase * ~= rate 389 14.1.0 E rabbit * ~= rate 390 14.2.0 E dither: RPDF,scaled dither (TPDF only) 391 14.1.0 F flac: libFLAC 1.1.1 libFLAC > 1.1.1 392 393 * But interface retained as an alias for `rate'. 394 395LibSoX interface changes: 396 397 o sox_format_init() has been supeseded by sox_init(). 398 o Removed obsolete error codes (SOX_E...); new sox_strerror() 399 function to convert error codes to text. 400 o Use of sox_effect_options() is now mandatory when initialising an 401 effect (see example0.c for an example of this). 402 o sox_flow_effects() has a new (3rd) parameter: a void pointer 403 `client_data' that is passed as a new (2nd) parameter to the flow 404 callback function. client_data may be NULL. 405 406File formats: 407 408 o Slight improvement to A-law/u-law conversion accuracy: round LSB 409 instead of truncating. (robs) 410 o Fix length in wav header with multi-channel output to pipe. (robs) 411 o Fix [2028181] w64 float format incompatibility. (Tim Munro) 412 o Fix reading AIFF files with pad bytes in COMT chunks. (Joe Holt) 413 o Fix AIFF file length bug to stop reading trash data on files that 414 have extra chunks at end of file. (Joe Holt) 415 o Fix file length being 4 bytes short for AIFF sowt CD tracks. (Joe Holt) 416 o Fix [2404566] segfault when converting from MS ADPCM wav file. (robs) 417 o Fix slight FLAC seek inaccuracy e.g. when using `trim' effect. (robs) 418 o Fix mp3 decode sometimes being up to a block short. (robs) 419 o Fix not outputing GSM-in-wav when input is GSM-in-wav. (robs) 420 421Audio device drivers: 422 423 o New native OpenBSD audio handler for play/recording. (Alexandre Ratchov) 424 o 24-bit support for ALSA handler. (robs) 425 o Warn if ALSA under/overrun. (robs) 426 427Effects: 428 429 o New `stats' effect; multichannel audio statistics. (robs) 430 o New `sinc' FFT filter effect; replacement for `filter'. (robs) 431 o New `fir' filter effect using external coefficients/file. (robs) 432 o New `biquad' filter effect using external coefficients. (robs) 433 o New `overdrive' effect. (robs) 434 o New `vad' Voice Activity Detector effect. (robs) 435 o `synth' enhancements: can now set common parameters for multiple 436 channels, new `pluck' and `tpdf' types, `scientific' note 437 notation, [2778142] just intonation. (robs) 438 o New multi-channel support and revised sizing options for `spectrogram'. 439 N.B. revised options are not directly backwards compatible -- see the 440 man page for details of the new syntax. (robs) 441 o Richer gain/normalise options. (robs) 442 o [2704442] Slight change to `riaa' gain: now norm'd to 0dB @ 1k 443 (previously 19.9dB @ DC). (Glenn Davis) 444 o Fix [2487589] `dither' clipping detection & handling. (robs) 445 o Fix `repeat' sometimes stopping repeating too soon. (robs) 446 o Fix `repeat' sometimes repeating wrong audio segments. (robs) 447 o Fix [2332343] 'silence' segfault with certain lengths. (cbagwell) 448 o Fix `silence' empty output file with A-law input. (robs) 449 o Fix temporary file problems in Windows (cygwin) with normalise and 450 other effects. (robs) 451 o Fix [2779041] spectrogram PNG file is invalid on Windows. (robs) 452 o Fix [2787587] `trim x 0' should produce zero length audio. (robs) 453 o Parallel effects channel processing on some hyper-threading/mult-core 454 architectures. New `--single-threaded' option to disable this. (robs) 455 456Other new features: 457 458 o Added ability to create shared DLL's on cygwin (cbagwell) 459 o New `--guard' & `--norm' options; use temporary files to guard against 460 clipping for many, but not currently all, effects. (robs) 461 o New `--ignore-length' option to ignore length in input file header (for 462 simple encodings & for mp3); instead, read to end of file. (robs) 463 o New `--temp DIRECTORY' option. (robs) 464 o New `--play-rate-arg ARG' option. (robs) 465 o New SOX_OPTS environment variable; can be used to provide default 466 values for above and other options. (robs) 467 o Grouped files, e.g. play -r 6k "*.vox" plays all at 6k. (robs) 468 o Automatically `dither'; new `--no-dither' option to disable this. (robs) 469 o Can now use `v' & `V' keys to adjust volume whilst playing audio (on some 470 systems). (robs) 471 o New bitrate, time in seconds, & total options for soxi; bitrate 472 and file-size display for sox. (robs) 473 o `Magic' (libmagic) file type detection now selected using `--magic' 474 option (where supported). 475 o [2003121] In many cases, no longer need to specify -t when inputing 476 audio from a `pipe'. (robs) 477 o Support more Shoutcast URL variants. (robs) 478 o Added libSoX example #3: playing audio. (robs) 479 480Other bug fixes: 481 482 o Fix [2262177] SoX build could fail with parse /etc/issue error. (robs) 483 o Fix "no handler for detected file type `application/octet-stream; 484 charset=binary'" with raw files when using libmagic. (robs) 485 486Internal improvements: 487 488 o Rationalise use of and make repeatable across different platforms 489 pseudo random number generators. (robs) 490 o Rationalise effects' options interface (getopt compatible). (robs) 491 o Added stub headers to allow test compilation of all sources on 492 linux. (robs) 493 494 495sox-14.2.0 2008-11-09 496---------- 497 498Previously deprecated features that have been removed in this release: 499 500 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] 501 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement 502 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- 503 14.0.0 E pitch new pitch = old key 504 505File formats: 506 507 o New `.cvu' unfiltered CVSD; supports any bit-rate. (robs) 508 o New `.sox' native format intended for intermediate files. (robs) 509 o Fix WAV write on 64-bit arch. (robs) 510 o Fix writing PRC ADPCM files. (Silas Brown) 511 o Fix problems reading short mp3 files. (robs) 512 513Effects: 514 515 o N.B. Reduced default bandwidth setting for `rate' effect from 99% 516 to 95%; use `rate -s' to be compatible with SoX v14.1.0. (robs) 517 o New options for `rate' effect to configure phase response, 518 band-width and aliasing. (robs) 519 o New options for 'dither' effect: RPDF, TPDF, noise-shaping. (robs) 520 o New `riaa' effect: RIAA vinyl playback EQ. (robs) 521 o New `loudness' effect: gain control with ISO 226 loudness 522 compensation. (robs) 523 o New `bend' effect; pitch bending. (robs) 524 o New -b option for the norm effect; can be used to fix stereo 525 imbalance. (robs) 526 o Wider tempo range for `tempo' effect. (robs) 527 o New --effects-file option to read effects and arguments from 528 a file instead of command line. (cbagwell) 529 o `filter' effect now supports --plot. (robs) 530 o Improved documentation for the `stat' effect. (robs) 531 o Fix broken audio pass-through with noiseprof effect. (robs) 532 o Fix graph legend display when using --plot octave. (robs) 533 o Fix rare crash with `rate' effect. (robs) 534 o Fix [2190767] `norm' under-amplifying in some cases. (George Yohng) 535 o Fix [2007062] Earwax effect can overflow; should clip. (robs) 536 o Fix [2223251] mcompand should use linkwitz-riley. (robs) 537 o Fix `phaser' clicks and overflows. (robs) 538 o Trim will now skip past 2G point correctly. (cbagwell) 539 o Improved handling of speed changes in the effects chain. (robs) 540 541Other new features: 542 543 o New psuedo-effects "newfile" and ":" to allow running 544 multiple effect chains on a single file. newfile will 545 create a new output file when an effect chain terminates. 546 Of most use with trim and silence effects. (cbagwell) 547 o Can now use multiple pipes as inputs to the combiner; 548 see `Special Filenames' in sox(1). (robs) 549 o Display SoX build/run environment information with -V -V. (robs) 550 o Display (with -V) the detected file-type if it differs from the 551 file extension. (robs) 552 o New -t option for soxi; to display the detected file type. (robs) 553 o New -b/--bits, -e/--encoding alternative options for specifying 554 audio encoding parameters. (robs) 555 o [FR 1958680] Support more than 32 input files. (robs) 556 o New native Mac OSX audio handler for playing/recording. (cbagwell) 557 558Other bug fixes: 559 560 o Bump library version because it was not binary compatible with 561 SoX 14.0.1 (Pascal Giard) 562 o Turn off versioning of special libsox_fmt* libraries since thats 563 not really needed. (kwizart) 564 o Fixed crash when running play with no arguments. (Dan Nelson) 565 o Allow libpng to be found with -static option. (cbagwell) 566 o Allow libsamplerate to be found if pkg-config is installed but 567 no samplerate.pc exists. (cbagwell) 568 o [2038855] external lpc10 lib patch. (Oden Eriksson, Mandriva) 569 o Fix memory leaks in effects chain when restarting effects. (cbagwell) 570 o Fixed pkg-config CFLAGS. (evilynux) 571 o Fix sndfile inclusion in build in some circumstances. (robs) 572 o Fix [2026912] Fails on URL-like filenames. (robs) 573 o Always add _LARGEFILE_SUPPORT when off_t is 64bits to work around 574 buggy platforms. Fixes not able to read WAV files. (cbagwell) 575 576Internal improvements: 577 578 o Fixed all compiler warnings (with gcc 4.3.1, 64-bit arch.). (robs) 579 o Updates to internal effects chain API. (cbagwell) 580 o Retire old FFT routines (speeds up `noisered' effect). (robs) 581 o Allow effects to use getopt. (robs) 582 o Use libmagic for mp3. (robs) 583 o Change sox_seek() offset to 64-bit to work with > 2G files (cbagwell) 584 o Merged libsfx back into libsox to align with sox.h API. (cbagwell) 585 586 587sox-14.1.0 2008-7-29 588---------- 589 590Previously deprecated features that have been removed in this release: 591 592 Deprec- Feature [O(ption)] 593 ated in [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)] Replacement 594 ------- ---------------------- ---------------------- 595 13.0.0 O -e -n 596 13.0.0 O -b/-w/-l/-d -1/-2/-4/-8 597 13.0.0 E avg, pick mixer 598 13.0.0 E highp, lowp highpass -1, lowpass -1 599 13.0.0 E mask dither 600 13.0.0 E vibro ~= tremolo 601 13.0.0 F auto Becomes internal only 602 603File formats: 604 605 o New option --help-format shows info about supported format(s). (robs) 606 o New WavPack format (includes lossless audio compression, but not 607 guaranteed lossless file compression). (robs) 608 o New htk format. (robs) 609 o Add .f4 & .f8 raw file extensions. (robs) 610 o Writing aiff, aifc & dvms now repeatable with -R. (robs) 611 o Writing hcom no longer fails with unsupported rate--chooses 612 best match. (robs) 613 o Au/snd: added support for 32-bit integer and 64-bit float PCM 614 encoding/decoding; display name of unsupported encoding. (robs) 615 o Can now write .amb (.wav variant) files [FR 1902232]. (robs) 616 o Can now read 2,3(2.6),4 bit ADPCM .voc files [FR 1714991]. (robs) 617 o Can now read some MP3 ID3 tags. (robs) 618 o Can now write Sounder files. (robs) 619 o Can now write DEC-variant au files (with -x). (robs) 620 o Comments support for SoundTool files. (robs) 621 o Fix [1864216] comments mangled when writing ogg-vorbis. (robs) 622 o Fix short noise at end of alsa playback. (Morita Sho/Tim Munro/robs) 623 o Fix wve seek accuracy. (robs) 624 o Fix lpc10 not working. (robs) 625 o Fix [1187257] wav MS-ADPCM block-align size incorrect. (robs) 626 o For wav & au, fix [548256] size in header wrong when piping out. (robs) 627 o Fix IRCAM SF header processing; support all (modern) variants. (robs) 628 o Fix 24-bit read/write on big-endian systems. (robs) 629 o Fix crash trying to open non-existent play-list. (robs) 630 o Fix FLAC read from stdin with libFLAC >= 8. (Patrick Taylor Ramsey/robs) 631 o Fix [1997637] Trim effect loses samples (with wav). (robs) 632 633Effects: 634 635 o New `splice' effect; splice together audio sections. (robs) 636 o New `remix' effect; mixes any number of channels. (robs) 637 o New `norm' (normalise) effect. (robs) 638 o New `delay' effect; delay one or more channels. (robs) 639 o New `contrast' enhancement effect [FR 708923]. (robs) 640 o Improved `rate' resampling effect; resample, polyphase, & rabbit 641 now deprecated. (robs) 642 o New `spectrogram' effect; creates a PNG (if built with PNG lib). (robs) 643 o `synth' can now sweep linearly and squarely (as well as 644 exponentially). (robs) 645 o Can now `fade' out to EOF without giving file-length (if it can 646 be determined from the input file header). (robs) 647 o Fix synth max. level setting for some output encodings. (robs) 648 o Fix crash on 64-bit arch. with tempo & key effects. (Sami Liedes) 649 o `gain' alias for the vol effect. (robs) 650 651Other new features: 652 653 o Now possible to control play-back resampling quality (and hence 654 cpu-load) via the PLAY_RATE_ARG environment variable. (robs) 655 o Command line support for multiple file comments. (robs) 656 o New --combine=mix-power option to mix combine using 1/sqrt(n) scaling 657 instead of 1/n [FR 2012856]. (robs) 658 o New --input-buffer option to specify (only) input buffer size. (robs) 659 o New `soxi' utility to extract/display file header fields. (robs) 660 o Pkg-config support. (Pascal Giard) 661 o Simple VU meter. (robs) 662 o Heuristic to detect when playing an album and set 663 the default replay-gain mode to `album'. (robs) 664 o Better auto-choice of output file format parameters when 665 type is different to that of input file. (robs) 666 o SoX now treats (and displays) encoding size & signal precision 667 separately. (robs) 668 o Default audio devices (sox), and allow environment variables to 669 be used to override the default audio device driver (rec/play) 670 and default audio device (all). (robs) 671 o Simpler file info display for `play'. (robs) 672 o For some file-types, warn if file size seems too short. (robs) 673 o Added auto-detect for caf, sndr, txw & sf files. (robs) 674 o Added example0: simpler example of how to develop applications that 675 use the libSoX effects chain. (robs) 676 o Added example2: simple example of how to develop applications that 677 use libSoX to read an audio file. (robs) 678 o Moved contents of soxexam man page into soxeffect man page. (robs) 679 680Other bug fixes: 681 682 o Fix [1890983] rec shortcut should apply bit depth (8-bit, 683 16-bit, etc.) to input handler. (robs) 684 o Fix ungraceful handling of out of disc space and other write 685 errors (bug was introduced in 14.0.0). (robs) 686 o Fix endian selection (-B, -L, -x) in some circumstances. (robs) 687 o Fix auto-detect of hcom files. (robs) 688 689Internal improvements: 690 691 o Use FORTIFY_SOURCE with gcc. (robs) 692 o Fixed all compiler warnings (with gcc 4.2.3, 32-bit arch). (robs) 693 o Reimplement (separately) SoundTool & Sounder format handlers. (robs) 694 o Allow formats & effects to have any size of private data. (robs) 695 696 697sox-14.0.1 2008-01-29 698---------- 699 700 File formats: 701 702 o Added support for non-standard, non-WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE 703 (esp. 24-bit) PCM wav (see wavpcm in soxformat.7 for details). (robs) 704 705 Effects: 706 707 o Reimplemented reverb to be similar to freeverb. (robs) 708 709 Bug fixes: 710 711 o Fix Sndtool read error causing noise at start. (Reynir Stefánsson) 712 o Fix mixer with >4 numbers, and mixer -3 behaving as mixer -4. (robs) 713 o Fix [1748909] sox does not report remaining playtime of mp3s. (robs) 714 o Fix failure to read AIFF files with empty MARK chunk. (robs) 715 o Fix spurious 'Premature EOF' message in some circumstances. (robs) 716 o Switched to 16-bit for libao driver since not all its plugins 717 support it (such as oss, nas, and pulse audio) (Morita Sho) 718 o Stop crash when "rec" is run with no arguments (Morita Sho). 719 o Fix -V (without argument) on non-gnu systems. (robs) 720 o Fix reported (with -V) output audio length in some cases. (robs) 721 o Fix actual FLAC output file audio length in some cases. (robs) 722 o Fix poor 24-bit FLAC compression & support newer versions of 723 libFLAC (1.2.x). (robs) 724 o Fix loss of 1 decoded FLAC block when using "trim 0 ...". (robs) 725 o Fix trim when first effect with IMA-ADPCM input wav file. (robs) 726 727 Internal improvements: 728 729 o Let "make distcheck" run some automated test scripts. 730 o Distribute missing cmake files. 731 o Fix ogg vorbis compile error on some platforms. 732 o Remove unused libltdl that could cause header mismatch with 733 installed libltdl. 734 o Fix AMR detection with --disable-shared. (robs) 735 o Updated configure to support linking to static libraries 736 on mingw for flac, ogg, and libsamplerate libraries. 737 o Added example1: simple example of how to develop applications that 738 use the libSoX effects chain. (robs) 739 740 741sox-14.0.0 2007-09-11 742---------- 743 744 File formats: 745 746 o Added ffmpeg support. (Reuben Thomas) 747 o FLAC: added seekable decoding; added seek-table generation. (robs) 748 o Added M3U & PLS playlist formats [FR# 1667341] (Note: SHOUTcast PLS 749 is only partially supported). (robs) 750 o Made format readers and writers into individual modules for easier 751 distribution of differently-licensed code. (Reuben Thomas) 752 o Added libao support. (Reuben Thomas) 753 o Added support for ADPCM-encoded PRC files, based on Danny Smith's 754 rec2wav and sndcmp. (Reuben Thomas) 755 o Added AMR-NB [FR# 728875] & AMR-WB formats (with external libs). (robs) 756 o Added LPC-10 support. (Reuben Thomas) 757 758 Effects: 759 760 o Use LADSPA effects (one input, one output). (Reuben Thomas) 761 o --octave option changed to --plot; can now also use gnuplot to 762 plot effect transfer function. (robs) 763 o Added soft-knee companding. (robs) 764 o Show (with --plot) compand transfer function. (robs) 765 o Allow e.g. "vol 6dB" (as well as "vol 6 dB"). (robs) 766 o Changed deemph filter from 1st order to 2nd order for 767 slightly better accuracy. (robs) 768 o Add option to silence effect to leave periods of silence 769 in and only strip out extra silence. (Mark Schreiber) 770 o synth can now generate any number of channels. (robs) 771 o mixer can now mixdown to mono any number of channels. (robs) 772 o Added oops effect (mixer special case). (robs) 773 o All effects that could only work on mono or stereo audio, now 774 work with any number of channels. (robs) 775 o Added WSOLA-based key and tempo effects. (robs) 776 777 Other new features: 778 779 o Show (with -S) if clipping is occurring. (robs) 780 o Added internet input file support (needs wget). (robs) 781 o Made it possible to build without sound drivers. (Reuben Thomas) 782 783 Bug fixes: 784 785 o Fix (m)compand transfer function non-linearities; fix compand 786 drain volume. (robs) 787 o Fix crash with pan effect. (robs) 788 o Add missing RM define to Makefiles so installs work. 789 (Bug# 1666599) (cbagwell) 790 o Fix I/O performance regression in 13.0.0. (Reuben Thomas) 791 o Fix .lu, .la read regression in 13.0.0 [Bug# 1715076]. (robs) 792 o Fix uncompressed NIST/Sphere read regression in v13 [Bug #1736016]. 793 o Fix displayed times when playing a file and using trim. (robs) 794 o Fix CDDA sector duration display for non-CDDA sample rates. (robs) 795 o synth fixes: brown noise; inverted square wave; offset < 0. (robs) 796 o Fix crash when encoding Vorbis or FLAC: with no comment. (robs) 797 o Fix effect drain problems: chorus, echo(s), phaser. (robs) 798 o Fix rabbit responsiveness and memory problems. (Peter Samuelson) 799 o Fix broken stereo audio when recording using ALSA. (robs) 800 o Fix OSS driver on big endian machines that was introduced in 801 last release. 802 803 Internal improvements: 804 805 o Renamed libst to libsox for name recongition and to avoid 806 duplications with other existing libst libraries. (Reuben Thomas) 807 o Moved effects to libsfx. (Reuben Thomas) 808 o Got rid of several hundred compiler warnings. (robs, Reuben Thomas) 809 o Added basic performance testing of I/O. (Reuben Thomas) 810 o Effects chain processing now available in libSoX. (robs) 811 o Added effects-chain buffering for effects that use a window [FR# 812 1621695]. (robs) 813 o Added cmake build files for Win32. (robs) 814 815 816sox-13.0.0 2007-02-11 817---------- 818 819 File formats: 820 821 o Support for .caf, .paf, .fap, .nist, .w64, .nist, Matlab 4.2/5.0 822 (Octave 2.0/2.1), .pvf, .sds, .sd2 and .xi file formats via libsndfile. 823 If available, libsndfile can also be used to handle all the other file 824 formats it understands. (Reuben Thomas) 825 o Add FLAC support (robs) 826 o Support Maxis's XA format. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger) 827 o Add support for 24-bit PCM raw, wav (WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE) [FR# 801015], 828 au, aiff, & flac files. (robs) 829 o Add AIFF-C output support. (shashimoto) 830 o New .ima file format for raw IMA ADPCM. (robs) 831 o Allow the rate and number of channels of .au files to be overridden 832 by command-line arguments. (robs) 833 o Add seek support for GSM data in WAV files. Rafal Maszkowski 834 o Allow encoding quality to be specified (FLAC & Ogg, but not 835 MP3 yet). (robs) 836 o Rename -b to -1, -w to -2, -l to -4, -d to -8, and mask to dither. 837 (robs) 838 o New options for specifying endianness (and separate options for 839 nibble & bit reversal) [FR# 1621702]. (robs) 840 o Improved multi-channel file reading; fixes [1599990]. (robs) 841 842 Effects: 843 844 o Equalizer effect (Pascal Giard) 845 o bass and treble altering effects. (robs) 846 o New optional rabbit resample routine, using libsamplerate 847 (aka Secret Rabbit Code). (Reuben Thomas) 848 o Added allpass filter effect. (robs) 849 o Documented the butterworth filter effects; added variable Q. (robs) 850 o "rate" effect made an alias for "resample". 851 o Visualisation of various filters' frequency response via Octave. (robs) 852 o Can now specify width of many 2nd-order filters as: Hz, octaves, 853 or Q. (robs) 854 o Dither/mask amount now specifiable. (robs) 855 o Consistent (and hopefully complete) clipping detection and 856 reporting. (robs) 857 o Allow command-line time parameters of < 1 sec to omit the 858 leading 0. (robs) 859 o Improved synth usage and improved the synth entry in the man- 860 page. (robs) 861 o Higher quality audio speed adjustment; also fixes [1155364]. (robs) 862 o Replacement flanger effect; also fixes [1393245]. (robs) 863 o Added silence padding effect. (robs) 864 o Added ability for noiseprof to use stdout and noisered to use stdin 865 [FR# 1621694]. (Reuben Thomas) 866 o vibro effect name deprecated in favour of tremolo; this effect 867 reimplemented as a special case of synth. (robs) 868 869 Other new features: 870 871 o Remove soxmix. (Reuben Thomas) 872 o Preview mode now removed, as all it did was use rate rather than 873 resample, and rate has been removed. 874 o -V now gives only user-relevant messages, use -V -V to get 875 developer-relevant messages. (robs) 876 o -V output much improved and expanded; now includes display of 877 (auto-)selected effects. (robs) 878 o sox man-page overhaul, new soxexam man-page entries. (robs) 879 o Added command line options for specifying the output file 880 comment. (robs) 881 o Added ability to merge e.g. 2 mono files to 1 stereo file 882 [FR# 1297076]. (robs) 883 o Removed the restrictions whereby multiple input files had to have 884 the same data encoding & size, and in most situations where they 885 had to have the same # of channels, and for play where they had 886 to have the same sampling-rate. (robs) 887 o Options to apply replay-gain on input; enabled by default 888 with `play'. (robs) 889 o Can now use Ctrl-C to skip to next track when playing multiple 890 files (e.g. play *.mp3); Ctrl-C twice to exit. (robs) 891 o Added --interactive option to prompt to overwrite pre-existing 892 output file. (robs) 893 o Added large file support. (Reuben Thomas) 894 895 Bug fixes: 896 897 o Fix writing MP3 files on AMD64 processors. 898 o More fixes to MP3 tag reading. Sometimes tags were 899 detected as valid MP3 frames. 900 o Fix to stop, avoiding a crash, when starting of effects fails. 901 (Reuben Thomas) 902 o Fixed a bug introduced in 12.18.2 that stopped the draining 903 of effects from occuring. This had stopped the reverse effect, 904 among others, from working. (Reuben Thomas) 905 o Several effects are now optimised out in situations where they need 906 do nothing, e.g. changing rate from 8000 to 8000, or changing volume 907 by 0dB [Bug# 1395781]. (robs) 908 o Fix rounding error when reading command-line time 909 parameters. (robs) 910 o Fix nul file hander ignoring other format options if rate 911 option has not been given. (robs) 912 o Fix synth length accuracy. (robs) 913 o Fix broken audio when downmixing with any of the following 914 effects: synth, deemph, vibro. (robs) 915 o Fixed deemph & earwax effects to work with MP3, vorbis, 916 & FLAC. (robs) 917 o Fix wav file handler discarding the last PCM sample in certain 918 circumstances. (robs) 919 o Fix [1627972] AIFF read bug when MARK chunk present. (Richard Fuller) 920 o Fix [1160154] VOX to WAV conversion problem. (robs) 921 o Removed (for output file only) the potentially 922 problematic -v option. Use the vol effect instead. (robs) 923 o Improved the accuracy of integer and floating point PCM 924 conversions. (robs) 925 o Don't go into a loop on zero-padded WAVs. (Jorge Serna) 926 o Fix to AIFF writing to avoid writing invalid files in some situations. 927 (Reuben Thomas) 928 o Fix compander effect bugs: [1613030] Compand fails to compress 929 clipping, [1181423] compand with 0 sec attack/release. (robs) 930 931 Internal improvements: 932 933 o More and better self-tests. (robs) 934 o Build system overhaul to use the full set of GNU autotools. 935 (Reuben Thomas) 936 o Add new getopt1.c to win32 project file. 937 o Remove old, optional rate change and alaw/ulaw conversion code. 938 (Reuben Thomas) 939 o Removed the old internally invoked (but mentioned in the man page) 940 copy effect. (robs) 941 942 943sox-12.18.2 2006-09-03 944----------- 945 946 o Adding in Debian's disk full fix (#313206). 947 o Finally got rid of reference to cleanup() function in 948 library. Applications are now required to detect 949 all failures from return codes and cleanup as they 950 want. 951 o Changed how list of formats and effects are stored internally. 952 Effects libst users only. Dirk 953 o Store effects usage so that its accessable by applications. 954 Dirk 955 o Modify the synth effect to not use SIGINT to stop processing 956 and instead return ST_EOF. This allows exact acount of 957 samples to be written out instead of an approximate amount. 958 o Fix hangup when attempting to write stereo MP3 files. 959 (1512218) Kendrick Shaw 960 o Fix deemph effect would lose stereo separation. (1479249) robs 961 o Adding cross-platform support for getopt_long 962 o Make help screens print much more information and add 963 new --help-effect option. (Originally from Dirk). 964 o Add support for using an external gsm library instead of 965 just the internal one. Vladimir Nadvornik 966 o Updates to nul file handler to prevent crashes during output. 967 Martin Panter (1482869) 968 969 970sox-12.18.1 2006-05-07 971------------ 972 973 o The "filter" effect could go into infinite drain mode. Now 974 only drain 1 buffer. noisered as well. 975 o SoX was ignoring user aborts (ctrl-c) if it occured during 976 effect drain operations. This was bad if effects had 977 bugs and stuck in infinite loop. 978 o Stop SoX from crashing when file type could not be auto 979 determined (1417776). 980 o Output filenames with multiple '.' confused SoX. (1417776) 981 Christian Hammer 982 o Moved to a common set of CLIP routines. This fixed clipping 983 bugs in noisered and mcompand. 984 o Stop SoX from crashing on sphere files that contain large text 985 strings. (1430025) Ulf Hamhammar 986 o Fix some overflow crashes in aiff handler. (1430024) Ulf Hamhammar. 987 o Under windows, set piped input/output to binary mode (1417794). Martin 988 Panter 989 o Fixed broken internal version of strdup(). (1417790) Marty 990 o Stop infinite loop when reading MP3's with a tag size of 991 exactly 8192 bytes. (1417511) Hans Fugal 992 o Fix typo in stlib.dsp for loading in Visual Studio 6. 993 o Fixed problems in silence effect related to removing multiple 994 periods of silence from the middle of the sound file. 995 o Reduced the window size greatly on the silence effect to 996 prevent leaving in silence that looked like noise still based 997 on RMS values. 998 o Prevent infinite loop in pitch effect from uninitialize variable. 999 Frank Heckenbach 1000 o Prevent crashes when printing error mesages (1447239) 1001 o Added makefile and support files to compile using Open Watcom 1002 compiler. (1417798) Marty 1003 o Stop calling flow() on effects that returned EOF during drain(). Allows 1004 two back-to-back reverse effects to work. 1005 o Added support for multiple channels in .dat files. 1006 (1366634) tomchristie 1007 1008 1009sox-12.17.9 2005-12-05 1010----------- 1011 1012 o Updates to compile under VC6. Jimen Ching 1013 o Declare st_signalinfo_t to specifically be signed in case 1014 platform does not default ot signed chars. This 1015 is required for NetBSD/powerpc. 1016 o When seek()ing in AIFF, SMP, and WAV handlers, remaining samples were 1017 incorrectly computed based on bytes and not samples. Jukka 1018 o Changed noisered effect to just warn during clipping instead 1019 of aborting. Ian Turner 1020 o Fixed bug were pieces of audio were lost every buffer read 1021 when running both -c and -r options together on mono audio. 1022 Users probably percieved it as shorter audio files that 1023 played with a sped up tempo. 1024 Bugfix will also apply to other times when multiple effects 1025 are ran on the command line. 1026 o Added support for -V option to play/rec scripts. 1027 o Fix to silence effect to allow negative periods to be specified 1028 (to remove silence from middle of sound file). 1029 o Fix swap option handling so that special case of "swap 1 1" will 1030 work. 1031 o Track length of Ogg Vorbis files on read. 1032 o Add support for displaying a status line that tracks progress 1033 of read/write routines. Part of information requires read 1034 file handlers to be able to determine file length. 1035 o Converted alsa driver to use asoundlib instead of directly 1036 talking to kernel driver. This also means that device names 1037 are now the ALSA logical names instead of /dev type names. 1038 o Added ALSA support to play/rec scripts. 1039 o Added st_open*, st_read, st_write, st_seek, st_close routines 1040 to help simplify developer interface to libst. See libst.3.. 1041 o Removed st_initformat(), st_copyformat(), and 1042 st_checkformat() from library. If your app used those 1043 functions then copy them from 12.17.8 source code 1044 directly into your application or update to use new 1045 routines. 1046 o Force word-alignment on AIFF SSND and APPL chunks on input. 1047 Matthew Hodgson. 1048 o Add fix to WAV handler to only return data in multiples 1049 of sample_size*channels to better handle corrupt files. 1050 o Fixed bug where "-4" option didn't work with avg 1051 effect (Tom Christie). 1052 o Fixed fade's fade-out-length to match man page 1053 description as noted by Geoff Kuenning. This required 1054 updates to the sample crossfade scripts. Also modified fade 1055 effect to report when no more samples will be produced to 1056 prevent unneeded reading of whole file. 1057 o Allow aborting SoX with SIGTERM, along with previous SIGINT. 1058 Norman Ramsey. 1059 1060 1061sox-12.17.8 2005-08-22 1062----------- 1063 1064 o noisered effect had compile problems with some compilers. 1065 o "-x" option was being ignored since 12.17.7. 1066 o Stuart Brady added support for reading and writing RIFX files (big 1067 endian RIFF/WAV files). Also added support for auto detecting 1068 DEC-style ".sd\0" files. 1069 o Gene Mar found typo in polyphase nuttall calculation. 1070 o SMP buffer overflow (detected by gcc 4.0). Reported by Marcus Meissner 1071 and Matthias Saou. 1072 o Fixed URL in manpage to resample overviews. 1073 o Fixed WAV handler so that it didn't think WAV chunks with max size 1074 were invalid chunks. This allows WAV's to be used in pipes since 1075 they have to default to max size. 1076 o WAV files with alaw or ulaw data don't need extended format chunks. 1077 (Lars Immisch) 1078 o In AIFF files, fixed problem were short comments should cause 1079 AIFF handler to get confused and become misaligned. 1080 1081 1082sox-12.17.7 2004-12-20 1083----------- 1084 1085 o Christian Weisgerber sent patches to man page fixes 1086 and patches for sunaudio driver on openbsd. 1087 o Default volume for soxmix wrongly set to 0 instead 1088 of 1/#_input_files (float rounding error). 1089 o Update to ALSA driver to do a better job of detecting 1090 unsupported sample rate/size/encoding and change to 1091 a supported one. 1092 o Fix bug in alsa writing were last last partial buffer 1093 wasn't being flushed. 1094 o Guentcho Skordev pointed out ogg vorbis files were using 1095 the same value for serial numbers each time. 1096 o Changed sox to only read the exact size of a WAV data chunk 1097 if cooledit IFF LIST chunk is found at the end of the file. 1098 Normally, this isn't done to allow reading > 2gig WAV files. 1099 o Modified configure to detect cygwin compiler after detecting 1100 gcc compiler (fixes some default CFLAGS options). 1101 o Added explicit rule for compile *.o from *.c so that 1102 CPPFLAGS is always referenced. Not all platform's default 1103 rule includes CPPFLAGS (FreeBSD). 1104 o Under linux, add include path to /lib/modules/* so that ALSA 1105 include files can be auto detected. 1106 o Ian Turner added an effect to remove noise from an audio 1107 file by first profiling silent periods of the audio 1108 to determine what the noise is (like background hiss on 1109 cassette tapes). 1110 1111 1112sox-12.17.6 2004-10-13 1113----------- 1114 1115 o Changed comment code to always use copies of strings to 1116 fix bug in WAV handlering freeing argv[] memory. 1117 o Use calloc() to create ft_t structures so that all 1118 memory is initialized before being referenced. 1119 o Fixed VOC EOF bug were it thought there was an extra 1120 block when there wasn't. 1121 o Restructured directory layout so that source code is in 1122 a seperate directory. 1123 o Modified SoX to accept multiple input files. Concatenates 1124 files together in this case. 1125 o Removed map effect so that loops and instr could be removed 1126 from effects structures. This makes effects engine stand 1127 alone from the rest of the sox package. 1128 o Benedikt Zeyen found a bug in synth effect when generating 1129 brown noise that could cause clipping. 1130 o David Leverton sent another patch to prevent crashes on 1131 amd64's when resampling. 1132 o Fixed a bug were MP3 files with large ID3v2 tags could 1133 cause SoX to stick in a loop forever. Now, it will 1134 abort on IDv3 tags larger then 100k. Could still be 1135 improved to handle any size. 1136 o Changed volume option (-v) so that it tracks the file 1137 it was specified. This means that when specified with 1138 the input file, it changes volume before effects engine 1139 and when specified with output file, its done after effects 1140 engine. 1141 o Added crossfade_cat.sh script that will concatenate to 1142 audio files and do a crossfade between them. 1143 o Fixed bug in fade effect were it was impossible to do a 1144 fadeout starting from the beginning of the audio file. 1145 o Removed rounding error when changing volume of audio with 1146 "-v" option. This error caused doing a "-v -1.0" twice 1147 to not result in the original file. 1148 o Fixed a possible overflow in lots of effects were MIN 1149 value was treated as -MAX instead of -MAX-1. 1150 o Modifed sox so its OK for effects to not process any 1151 input or output bytes as long as they return ST_EOF. 1152 o When effects output data and reported ST_EOF at the 1153 same time, that buffer was discarded as well as 1154 data from any chained effect. 1155 o Added patch from Eric Benson that attempts to do a seek() 1156 if the first effect is trim. This greatly speeds up 1157 processing large files. 1158 o Daniel Pouzzner implemented a multi-band compander (using 1159 the butterworth filters to split the audio into bands). 1160 o Donnie Smith updated the silence effect so that its possible 1161 to remove silence from the middle of a sound file by 1162 using a negative value for stop_periods. 1163 o Changed float routines to only work with normalized values 1164 from -1:1. 1165 o Modifed .au handler to be able to read and write 32-bit 1166 and 64-bit float data. Only tested reading so far. 1167 o WAV with GSM data now always pads data to even number of bytes. 1168 o Added support for writing 32-bit audio to AIFF. 1169 1170 1171sox-12.17.5 2004-08-15 1172----------- 1173 1174 o Thomas Klausner sent in patches to compile audio drivers under 1175 NetBSD. 1176 o Rahul Powar pointed out a memory leak in the WAV file handler. 1177 It wasn't calling the correct close() function when closing 1178 input files. 1179 o Modified play.1 man page to not use multiple name lines. This 1180 appears to confuse some conversion programs. Updated sox.1 1181 man page for typo in reverb option. 1182 o Andrew Church fixed problem with header of stereo 8SVX files. 1183 o Jimen Ching added support to scan over garbage data at the 1184 beginning of MP3 files to find valid frames. This is useful 1185 to play WAV and AIFF files that have MP3 data in them until 1186 those handlers support it directly. To play those, force 1187 sox to use the mp3 handler with the "-t mp3" option. 1188 o Added patch from Ulf Harnhammar to wav handler to prevent 1189 buffer overflows. 1190 o Added patch from Redhat to allow resample to work on certain 64-bit 1191 machines (Sam Varshavchik) 1192 o Tony Seebregts added a file handler for headerless Dialogic/OKI ADPCM 1193 files (VOX files). 1194 o Jan Paul Schmidt added a repeat effect to do loops the brute force way. 1195 This is also good for file format that don't support loops as well. 1196 o Fix for OSS driver in rate tolerance calcs that were off because 1197 of type conversion problems. Guenter Geiger. 1198 o Allow reading sphere files with headers greater then 256 bytes. Jimen 1199 Ching. 1200 o Fix for vorbis were comments are displayed in KEY=value format always. 1201 Stop printing some info to stdout in case output is a pipe. Guenter 1202 Geiger. 1203 o J Robert Ray submitted fix for AIFF handler to ignore lowercase 1204 chunks that are unknown. 1205 o Bugfix for 8-bit voc files. Jimen Ching 1206 o General warning cleanups (cbagwell) 1207 o Memory leaks in reading WAV files (Ufuk Kayserilioglu) 1208 o Rearrange link order of ogg vorbis libraries so that they 1209 can be compiled as static. (Christian Weisgerbr) 1210 1211 1212sox-12.17.4 2003-03-22 1213----------- 1214 1215 o Peter Nyhlen fixed a problem with reading Comments in Ogg Vorbis files. 1216 o Added install target to allow installing libgsm from main Makefile. 1217 Leigh Smith. 1218 o Minor updates to sox.c to free unused memory and close all input 1219 files during failures. 1220 o Pieter Krul added a patch that makes play script look at AUDIODEV 1221 environment variable if it exists to find which device to use. 1222 This allows scripts to work with Solaris SunRays and is a good idea 1223 in general. 1224 o Updated config.sub to detect latest supported OS's. 1225 o Fabrizio Gennari added support for reading and writing 1226 MP3 files using the external libraries libmad and libmp3lame. 1227 o Jens Henrik Goebbert sent in several bugfixes for integer overflows 1228 in the compand effect. 1229 o Dan Dickerman sent in patches for integer overflows in the resample 1230 effect. 1231 o Jimen Ching sent in a fix for multi-channel sound file processing 1232 using the avg effect. 1233 o Richards Bannister added patches to clean up prototypes and filter 1234 private sizes being to small. 1235 o Jimen Ching adds -d option to specify 64bit data size and changed 1236 Ulaw/Alaw encoding to default to 8bit data size if not specified. 1237 o David Singer pointed out that a MS program creates AIFF files 1238 with an invalid length of 0 in its header. Changed SoX to warn the 1239 user but continue instead of aborting since SoX can still read 1240 the file just fine. 1241 o Bert van Leeuwen added a file handler for Psion record.app used 1242 for System/Alarms in some Psion devices. 1243 o Richard Bannister sent in a patch to make writing vorbis files 1244 work with Vorbis 1.0 libraries. 1245 o Fixed configure scripts so that they can be ran with the 1246 --with-oss-dsp, --with-alsa, and --with-sun-audio options. 1247 Was causing compile time problems. Reported by Raul Coronado. 1248 o Change Ogg Vorbis support to use VBR encoding to match defaults 1249 of oggenc based on suggestion from Christian Weisgerber. 1250 o Prints error message now when a channel value of -1 is given. 1251 Reported by Pierre Fortin. 1252 o Fixed bug were memory could be trashed if a input WAV file contained 1253 a comment. Found by Rhys Chard. 1254 o Change command line to compile soxmix.o slightly to try and make 1255 Forte compiler happy. 1256 o Added support for ALSA 0.9 driver. Jimen Ching 1257 1258 1259sox-12.17.3 2001-12-15 1260----------- 1261 1262 o Removed check that prevented pan from being invoked when the 1263 input and output channels were the same. 1264 o Ciaran Anscomb added a flush to sunaudio driver after changing 1265 settings. This is because it can start buffering data as soon 1266 as the device is open and the buffered data can be in a 1267 wrong format. 1268 o trim wasn't accounting for # of channels and was generally broken. 1269 o Jeff Bonggren fixed trim bugs were it was failing when triming 1270 data that equaled to BUFSIZ. Also, trim now immediately returns 1271 ST_EOF when its done instead of requiring an extra call that 1272 returns no data. 1273 o auto effect wasn't rewinding the file if the file was less then 1274 132 bytes. Changed auto parsing of header to be incremental 1275 instead of reading in a large buffer. 1276 o William Plant pointed out a bad pointer access in fade effect's 1277 parsing of options. 1278 o Ken pointed out a problem were private data was not 8-byte aligned 1279 and causing crashes on most RISC CPU's. Fixed by going back to 1280 old style of declaring private data as type "double" which usually 1281 forces strictest alignment. 1282 o ima_rw was miscompiling on alpha's because of a header ordering 1283 problem. 1284 o Erik de Castro Lopo pointed out that when writing 16-bit VOC files 1285 the headers did not contain the correct length or encoding type. 1286 o Seperated st.h into 2 files. st.h for libst users and st_i.h for 1287 internal use. 1288 o Added new types used extensively by libst: st_sample_t & st_size_t. 1289 This allows for more deterministic behavior on 64-bit machines and 1290 also allows sox to possibly work with much larger file sizes. 1291 o SoX was some times getting confused and thinking an EOF was an 1292 error case when reading audio files. Removed unneeded aborts 1293 when EOF was OK. 1294 o Silence effect was broken on stereo files. Also, made thresholds 1295 relative to original bit percision of audio data. When 16-bit audio 1296 is scaled up to 32-bits, a little bit of noise starts to look like a 1297 large amplitude of noise. Also, now using RMS values to smooth out 1298 clicks. RMS rolling window size is 1/10 of sample rate. 1299 o Changed Floats into a type of encoding instead of a size of audio data. 1300 o Put a flush at the end of OSS driver so that no old data would be 1301 left in internal buffers after changing audio format parameters. 1302 o Fixed problem where play script wasn't installed correctly if you 1303 build from another directory (pointed out by Mike Castle). 1304 o Made GSM support internal to libst (no external library required). 1305 o Change configure script to enable ulaw/alaw lookup tables and GSM 1306 support by default. Also have Makefile's make use of more configure 1307 prefix options to allow for customized installs. 1308 o Reverted ulaw/alaw conversion routines back to Sun's versions. 1309 o Modified raw file handler to write files in the same generic buffered 1310 fashion that was added for reading in 12.17.2. Seems to have 1311 speed up some types of writing. 1312 o Reading Ogg Vorbis files could get confused of when EOF was reached. 1313 o Added uninstall rules to Makefile. Added new ststdint.h to define 1314 *int*_t typedefs. 1315 o Added internal strcasecmp for OS/2. 1316 o Added support for swapping "bit" order (MSB becomes LSB) for raw u-law 1317 and A-law data. Some ISDN equipment prefers it this way. Use -x flag 1318 or new .la or .lu file extensions. 1319 o Annonymous patch submitted to fix types and spelling problems in 1320 various files. Also, updated VOC files to have u-law and A-law 1321 support as well as able to read in VOC files using a pipe. More 1322 examples added to soxexam file. 1323 1324 1325sox-12.17.2 2001-09-15 1326----------- 1327 1328 o Daniel Culbert found and fixed a bug in the polyphase effect 1329 that occurs on platforms that rand() can return large values. 1330 The bug resulted in polyphase resampling an audio file to a 1331 different rate then it said it was. 1332 o Stan Seibert contributed a handler for Ogg Vorbis files. It 1333 handles all input formats but can only save using default 1334 settings. 1335 o Darrick Servis has made major cleanups in the code in regards 1336 to error conditions. Helps people using libst. 1337 o Darrick Servis has added added optional seek functionality sox. 1338 Several formats have been modified to make use of this. 1339 o Geoff Kuenning rewrote the average effect into a general-purpose 1340 parametric mapping from N channels to M channels. 1341 o Geoff Kuenning added an optional delay-time parameter to the compander 1342 effect to allow companding to effectively operate based on future 1343 knowledge. 1344 o Geoff Kuenning Added support to fade and trim effect for specifying time 1345 in hh:mm:ss.frac format. 1346 Fixed a bug that caused integer overflow when large start/stop times 1347 were used. 1348 o Geoff Kuenning updated play/rec/soxeffect scripts to handle all effects 1349 added since 12.17. Spell-checked soxexam.1 file. 1350 o Jimen Ching updated ALSA configure support to auto-detect 4.x or 5.x API 1351 and compile correctly under those two. All other versions are unsupported. 1352 o Merged in the NetBSD package changes into CVS finally. 1353 o Removed broken support for non-ANSI compilers. 1354 o Makefile now places the correct path to SoX in the play/rec scripts 1355 based on configuration script values. 1356 o Alexander Pevzner provided a fix for OSS driver for sound being 1357 dropped under heavy CPU loads. Moved GETBLKSIZE operation 1358 until after setting up the format (SBLive! was modify the block size 1359 after changing formats). 1360 o With help from David Blythe, updated OSS drivers to use newer format 1361 interface. OSS driver will now attempt to detect a valid endian type 1362 to use with sound card. 1363 o Carsten Borchardt pointed out a bug in lowp filter. Added new 1364 nul file handler that reads and writes from/to nothing. 1365 Also added new synth effect that creates sounds using a simple 1366 synthesizer. Created a testcd.sh that uses two new features 1367 to create a test sound CD for testing audio equipment. 1368 o Ben Last added a new program that uses libst and will merge two 1369 seperate audio files into a single file with multiple channels. 1370 This was merged into the standard sox.c file by cbagwell. 1371 o Andreas Menke fixed some problems with the speed effect and 1372 how effects were drained. Also improved the usage of printf()'s 1373 to use stderr. 1374 o Corrected AU header length value when comments were less than 1375 4 bytes. 1376 o Added support for reading non-standard bit size data from AIFF files. 1377 o Ignore unmatched MARK/INSTR chunks in AIFF files now instead of quiting. 1378 o Fixed ALAW encoding bug in .au files as pointed out by Bruce Forsberg. 1379 o Unified the raw reading functions. Probably slightly faster for 1380 most datatypes but was done to fix recording from the OSS driver. 1381 Control-C stopped working somewhere during the 12.17 series. 1382 o Ford Prefect added a dcshift which can shift the midline amplitude 1383 towards the true center. This will allow for a greater range 1384 of volume adjustments without clipping audio data. 1385 o Heikki Leinonen submitted a silence effect that will trim off 1386 silence from the beginning of a file. cbagwell made some modifications 1387 to trim off front and back as well as some other tweaks. 1388 o Made the "auto" effect the default file handler for input files. 1389 Also have auto handler now use file extensions if it can't figure 1390 it out. 1391 1392 1393sox-12.17.1 2000-11-19 1394----------- 1395 1396 o Andreas Kies fixed a bug were we were not detecting correctly 1397 if an output file was seekable. 1398 o Fixed a bug in the mask effect introduced in 12.17. If the libc 1399 version of rand() returned more then 15-bit values then it would 1400 trash your data. Reported by Friedhel Mehnert. 1401 o Added a new fade in/out effect from Ari Moisio. 1402 o AIFF files now ignore a MARK chunk if the loop type is NoLoop (0). 1403 o Fixed bug were it was impossible to output ADPCM data in wav files. 1404 o Fixed bug were rate had to be specified for sphere files (fix from 1405 Antti Honkela). 1406 o Added small work around to let compile with cygwin's gcc 95.2 1407 which also now allows to compile with GSM support under windows. 1408 o Removed accessing of sound devices in tests for sound support and 1409 instead just look for needed header files. This allows the sound 1410 support to be detected even if the device is currently busy or when 1411 compiled on a box that doesn't have a sound card but the OS supports 1412 it (which is the enviornment of most distributions creating new 1413 binaries). 1414 o Added support to partially handle AIFC files but only uncompressed 1415 versions. This should allow people to work with raw CD audio data 1416 on Mac OSX and also gives a basis for adding future support for 1417 things like ADPCM processing. 1418 o Added new "earwax" effect from Edward Beingessner. It is meant to 1419 be used for CD audio played through headphones. It will move the 1420 sound stage from left/right to in front of you. 1421 o Trim effect did not compute locations as was documented in the 1422 man pages. Changed effect so that it computed the time the 1423 same way that the fade effect does. 1424 1425 1426sox-12.17 2000-09-08 1427--------- 1428 1429 o Sox can now read and write w98 compatible gsm .wav files, 1430 if compiled properly with libgsm. Thanks go to Stuart 1431 Daines <sjd.u-net.com> for the gsm-wav patches. 1432 This is new, and relatively untested. See -g format option. 1433 o Sox can now write IMA_ADPCM and ADPCM compressed .wav, 1434 this is new, and relatively untested. See -i and -a format 1435 options in manpage. 1436 o General changes to wav.c for writing additional wav formats. 1437 Reading wave headers: more consistency checks. 1438 Writing wave headers: fixes for w98. 1439 o Speedups to adpcm read routines, new codex versions are 1440 now in ima_rw.c and adpcm.c. 1441 o Speedups for raw.c, especially for gcc with glibc. 1442 o Fixed a segfault problem with ulaw/alaw conversion, where 1443 an out-of-range index into the tables could occur. 1444 o More detailed output from the stat effect. 1445 o Continued rewrite of resample.c, now it is almost as 1446 fast with floating arithmetic as the old (buggy) version 1447 was with 16-bit integer arithmetic. The older version 1448 in sox-12.16 shifted frequencies slightly and was less 1449 accurate. (Stan Brooks) 1450 o Extensive rewrite of polyphas.c, should be faster and use less memory 1451 now. The sox-12.16 polyphase code had some bugs. (Stan Brooks) 1452 o New effect 'filter' which is a high-quality DSP lowpass/ 1453 highpass/bandpass filter using windowed sinc function 1454 methods, like polyphase and resample. (Stan Brooks) 1455 o Jan Paul Schmidt added new low/high/bandpass and bandlimit 1456 filters to sox. They have much better results then the old 1457 versions of low/high/bandpass. The new effects are all 1458 Butterworth filters. 1459 o New data file type supported, -sl or extension .sl for 1460 signed 32-bit integers. Some simplification of the raw.c 1461 source. 1462 o Some test programs and scripts in the test directory, for 1463 making gnuplot plots of frequency response, error-levels 1464 of rate-conversion and filter effects. 1465 o Removed sbdsp code. All modern unixes are support via OSS, 1466 ALSA, or sun audio device interfaces. 1467 o Added AVR handler from Jan Paul Schmidt. 1468 o SoX now waits until the last possible moment before opening 1469 the output file. This will allow all input and effect options 1470 to be parsed for errors and abort before overwriting any file. 1471 o SoX will no longer write to files that exists. This will keep 1472 it from deleting files when a user mistakenly types "sox *.wav". 1473 o Added new compander effect from Nick Bailey. Nice general purpose 1474 filter. 1475 o Under Solaris, SoX now checks hardware ability to play stereo/PCM 1476 and forces output data to match. Sorry, no SunOS support. I don't 1477 have access to one any more. 1478 o Fixed array overrun bug in rate effect as pointed out by Ian 1479 Donaldson. 1480 o Fixed clip24() range as pointed out by Ted Powell. 1481 o Fixed possible segfault in echos effect, as pointed out by Zinx 1482 Verituse. 1483 o Moved most documentation to new "soxexam.1" manual page so that 1484 all users on a unix system will have access to important information. 1485 This means no more TIPS, CHEATS, or CHEATS.eft files. 1486 o Richard Kent fixed a byte alignment problem in aiff comment code. 1487 o Loring Holden added support to create missing directories on install 1488 and support for installs from outside the source directory. 1489 o Fabien COELHO added a pan and volume effect. 1490 o Fabien COELHO added a speed effect to sox (like speeding up a tape 1491 machine). Also added pitch which changes pitch without effecting 1492 duration and stretch which stretch time without effecting pitch. 1493 o Leigh Smith updated aiff support to use the COMT check when writing 1494 comments instead of the ANNO. It is the prefered method from Apple 1495 and newer programs are starting to require it. Also fixed some bugs 1496 in how we compute the length of various chunks in output files. 1497 o Changed the default block alignement for IMA ADPCM WAV files to use 1498 256 which is what windows programs use. Badly written readers expect 1499 256. 1500 o Matthias Nutt helped add support for specifying multiple effects 1501 to SoX on the command line. 1502 o Curt Zirzow added a trim effect to trim off audio data. 1503 o Updated ALSA driver to support new interface. Jimen Ching 1504 1505 1506sox-12.16 1999-07-13 1507--------- 1508 1509 o Changed raw data functions to perform I/O operations using block reads. 1510 Should improve speeds greatly, especially when filesize is in megs. 1511 Got code ready to tweak speed more which also forced me to clean up 1512 Endian test code. 1513 o Fixed a bug in .au's handling of G.723. It wasn't using the correct 1514 number of bits. Added A-law support to .au. 1515 o Quoted $filename in play/rec scripts so that files with spaces in 1516 their names can be given. 1517 o Old OS/2 support didn't work. Replaced with known working EMX 1518 GCC compatible code. 1519 o ADPCM WAV files were defaulting to 8-bit outputs and thus losing 1520 some persision. Now defaults to 16-bit signed uncompressed data. 1521 o Fixed a couple cross-platform compiler issues. 1522 o Jimen Ching has added support for "configure" in to SOX. Finally, 1523 a good solution to cross-platform compiling! 1524 o Jimen Ching has added native support for the ALSA driver to play 1525 and record audio from. (jching@flex.com) 1526 o Minor correction for -r example in manual page. 1527 o Renamed sox.sh to soxeffect and rewrote. Symbolic links can be made 1528 from this file to the name of a sox effect. It will then run that 1529 effect on STDIN and output the results to STDOUT. 1530 o Fixed up some makefiles and 16-bit support from patches sent by 1531 Mark Morgan Lloyd (markMLl.in@telemetry.co.uk). Also added some 1532 nice DOS test bat files from him as well. 1533 o Cleaned up some more cross-platform compile problems. In the process 1534 got it working with Turbo C again, kinda. It still locks DOS up at times. 1535 o Made AIFF handler work with invalid headers that some programs generate. 1536 Also fix an Endian bug thats been there for quite a long time (when 1537 ran on Intel machines). Made comment lengths even length to make 1538 most MacOS programs happy. cbagwell 1539 o Resample function was updated by Andreas Wilde 1540 (andreas@eakaw2.et.tu-dresden.de) to fix problem were freqs. were 1541 off by a factor of 2. 1542 o Added an effect that swaps stereo channels. cbagwell 1543 o Combined play and rec scripts to a single program to ease mantaince. 1544 Also added GNU style long-options (--help). Careful, some options have 1545 change (but more logical). 1546 o Fixed a very old silly bug were low/high/bandpass filters would 1547 add some trash data to the end of the sound file. 1548 o "avg" effect wouldn't give error message when you tried to average 1549 x number of channels in to the same number of channels. 1550 o Fixed core dump when writting AIFF files with no comments. 1551 (Olaf Pueschel) 1552 1553 1554sox-12.15 1998-10-01 1555--------- 1556 1557 o Juergen Mueller moved Sox forward quite a bit by adding all the 1558 most commonly known "Guitar Effects". He enhanced echo support, 1559 added chorus, flanger, and reverb effects. He also wrote a very 1560 handy CHEAT.eft file for using various effects. 1561 o Incorporated Yamaha TX-16W sampler file support provided by 1562 Rob Talley (rob@aii.com) and Mark Lakata (lakata@physics.berkeley.edu). 1563 o Fixed a small bug in hcom compression, dependent on sign 1564 extension. Leigh Smith (leigh@psychokiller.dialix.oz.au). 1565 o sox -h now prints out the file formats and effects supported. 1566 Leigh Smith and Chris Bagwell. 1567 o smp transfers comments more completely. Leigh Smith. 1568 o aiff manages markers and loops correctly and produces more 1569 verbose output. Leigh Smith. 1570 o Added polyphase resampler (kb@ece.cmu.edu). This adds a slightly 1571 different resampling algorithm to the mix. 1572 o Michael Brown (mjb@pootle.demon.co.uk) sent a patch to stop crashes 1573 from happening when reading mono MS ADPCM files. 1574 o Fabrice Bellard has added a less buggy 'rate' conversion. I've left 1575 the old rate code included but if all goes well this will become 1576 the new 'rate'. Please test and let me know how it works. Resample 1577 effect needs to be reworked now. 1578 o Heiko Eissfeldt: Implemented a simple deemphasis effect for 1579 certain audio cd samples. 1580 o Matija Nalis (mnalis@public.srce.hr) sent a patch to fix volume adjustment 1581 (-v) option of sox. 1582 o Fixed typo in optimazation flag in unix makefile, as pointed out by 1583 Manoj Kasichainula (manojk@io.com). 1584 o Fixed missing ';;' in play script. cbagwell 1585 o Fixed bug in determining length of IMA and MS ADPCM WAVE files. cbagwell 1586 o Fixed bug in how stereo effects were drained which fixed the 1587 "reverse" effect from only saving half of stereo files. cbagwell 1588 o Can use "-e" without an effect again. 1589 o Added -g and -a options for new style support of GSM and ADPCM. Added 1590 error checking to various formats to avoid allowing these types. 1591 1592 1593sox-12.14 1998-05-15 1594--------- 1595 1596 o Bumped major version number up and shortened name. The shorter name 1597 should help the various distributions using this package. 1598 o Added support for MS ADPCM and IMA (or DVI) ADPCM for .wav files. 1599 Thanks to Mark Podlipec's xanim for this code (podlipec@ici.net). 1600 o Change Lance Norskog's email address to thinman@meer.net. The old 1601 one was bouncing. 1602 o Added path string to play and rec strings so that it could be run by 1603 users without complete paths setup (i.e. Ran by "rc" files during bootup 1604 or shutdown) 1605 o Fixed -e option from Richard Guenther 1606 (richard.guenther@student.uni-tuebingen.de) and fixed a small bug 1607 in stat. 1608 o Fixed a bug in the mask effect for ULAW/ALAW files. 1609 o Fixed a bug in cdr output files that appended trash to end of file. 1610 o Guenter Geiger (geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at) made a rather large patch to 1611 allow sox to work on 64-bit alphas. It was done the easiest meathod 1612 by changing all long declarations to use a macro that knows to 1613 make it 32-bits. Want to port to another 64-bit-but-not-alpha 1614 machine? Grep for "alpha" to see changes. There are most likely 1615 several bugs left for alphas. Guenter is also supporting this 1616 package for the Debian distribution. 1617 o Did some major code cleanups to clear out some warning messages 1618 during compile. This is to clear up problems I'm finding under 1619 both alpha and dos. Some warning messages are actually useful 1620 now (pointing out possible data loss). Hopefully, I didn't 1621 break anything. 1622 o Code clean up allows me to finally compile code under Turbo C 1623 again. Too bad the EXE gets a currupted stack somewhere and locks 1624 up the system. Anyone want to try it with Borland C for me? 1625 If you get a working EXE I would like to start distributing a DOS 1626 package like there used to be. 1627 o Speaking of cleanups, anyone want to help cleanup the makefiles for 1628 various platforms? They are quite outdated right now and it is 1629 very obvious that Sox hasn't been able to compile under all the 1630 platforms it once did for several releases. Please send in 1631 the cleaned-up makefile versions along with what programs you 1632 used to compile it with. 1633 o There is a known bug in hcom's compress() function. It is allocating 1634 memory that can't be free'd under some OS's. It causes a core dump. 1635 1636 1637sox-11gamma-cb3 1997-03-28 1638--------------- 1639 1640This release of sox is mainly a bugfix release. The following things 1641have changed: 1642 1643 o Documentation has been updated when it was obviously wrong. 1644 Much more work could be done. Man pages were updated to 1645 work correctly on Solaris and add some missing info. 1646 o Several people sent me patches to fix compiling on Solaris 1647 as well as fix a few bugs. 1648 o Change USS driver's name to OSS. Man, does that driver 1649 like to change names! This could cause problems if you 1650 have made your own custom play and rec scripts. 1651 o Updated my email address. Sorry if I haven't responded to 1652 any emails as I no longer have access to my old address. 1653 Please use cbagwell@sprynet.com. 1654 o Fixed unix test scripts so that they worked again. 1655 o Fixed endian bug in psion .wve code. 1656 o Replaced outdated voc info file with detailed format info 1657 inside voc code. 1658 o Added new sound format, cvsd (Continuously Variable Slope Delta) 1659 from Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch). 1660 1661 1662sox-11gamma-cb2 1996-10-04 1663--------------- 1664 1665This release of sox is based on the latest gamma version released 1666plus some patches I've made to support the following new features: 1667 1668I would like to thank everyone that wrote me about the long 1669standing bug in Sox that could DELETE your /dev/* file if the 1670program was aborted for reason such as invalid audio file. Special 1671thanks for Bryan Franklin for sending in a patch when I was 1672to busy to even look for it. 1673 1674 o Better play support for 8-bit stereo voc files. New support 1675 for outputing both 8-bit and 16-bit stereo voc files. 1676 o Built-in support for playing and recording from Linux /dev/dsp. 1677 This is a re-write and seperate module from the previous 1678 support included inside the sbdsp module. Also fixes a buffer 1679 size bug that showed up when using newer versions of OSS. 1680 This driver will work with OSS (and older versions called USS, TASD 1681 and Voxware). 1682 o Support for audio playing and recording with SunOS /dev/audio. 1683 o Fixes a bug were /dev/audio or /dev/dsp could be deleted 1684 when playing an invalid format audio file. 1685 o Expanded options for play and rec scripts. You can now specify 1686 sox effects after the filename and hear them in real time. 1687 Please be sure that an older version of sox is not in your path 1688 because these script will possibly find it first and 1689 incorrectly use it. 1690 o Setting play/record volume still requires an external program. 1691 If you have one a command line program to do this (such as 1692 "mixer" for Linux) then you will want to edit the play and rec 1693 to use this. The current support for it is only in example 1694 form of how it can be done. 1695 1696 1697List of earlier SoX Contributors 1698-------------------------------- 1699Covering the time from its creation (Jul '91) until sox-11gamma (Feb '95): 1700 1701 o Lance Norskog thinman at netcom.com 1702 Creator & maintenance 1703 o Guido Van Rossum guido at cwi.nl 1704 AU, AIFF, AUTO, HCOM, reverse, many bug fixes 1705 o Jef Poskanzer jef at well.sf.ca.us 1706 original code for u-law and delay line 1707 o Bill Neisius bill%solaria at hac2arpa.hac.com 1708 DOS port, 8SVX, Sounder, Soundtool formats 1709 Apollo fixes, stat with auto-picker 1710 o Rick Richardson rick at digibd.com 1711 WAV and SB driver handlers, fixes 1712 o David Champion dgc3 at midway.uchicago.edu 1713 Amiga port 1714 o Pace Willisson pace at blitz.com 1715 Fixes for ESIX 1716 o Leigh Smith leigh at psychok.dialix.oz.au 1717 SMP and comment movement support. 1718 o David Sanderson dws at ssec.wisc.edu 1719 AIX3.1 fixes 1720 o Glenn Lewis glewis at pcocd2.intel.com 1721 AIFF chunking fixes 1722 o Brian Campbell brianc at quantum.qnx.com 1723 QNX port and 16-bit fixes 1724 o Chris Adams gt8741 at prism.gatech.edu 1725 DOS port fixes 1726 o John Kohl jtkohl at kolvir.elcr.ca.us 1727 BSD386 port, VOC stereo support 1728 o Ken Kubo ken at hmcvax.claremont.edu 1729 VMS port, VOC stereo support 1730 o Frank Gadegast phade at cs.tu-berlin.de 1731 Microsoft C 7.0 & C Borland 3.0 ports 1732 o David Elliot dce at scmc.sony.com 1733 CD-R format support 1734 o David Sears dns at essnj3.essnjay.com 1735 Linux support 1736 o Tom Littlejohn tlit at seq1.loc.gov 1737 Raw textual data 1738 o Boisy G. Pitre boisy at microware.com 1739 OS9 port 1740 o Sun Microsystems, Guido Van Rossum 1741 CCITT G.711, G.721, G.723 implementation 1742 o Graeme Gill graeme at labtam.labtam.oz.au 1743 A-LAW format, Good .WAV handling, avg channel expansion 1744 o Allen Grider grider at hfsi.hfsi.com 1745 VOC stereo mode, WAV file handling 1746 o Michel Fingerhut Michel.Fingerhut at ircam.fr 1747 Upgrade 'sf' format to current IRCAM format. Float file support. 1748 o Chris Knight 1749 Achimedes Acorn support 1750 o Richard Caley R.Caley at ed.ac.uk 1751 Psion WVE handler 1752 o Lutz Vieweg lkv at mania.RoBIN.de 1753 MAUD (Amiga) file handler 1754 o Tim Gardner timg at tpi.com 1755 Windows NT port for V7 1756 o Jimen Ching jiching at wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu 1757 Libst porting bugs 1758 o Lauren Weinstein lauren at vortex.com 1759 DOS porting, scripts, professional use 1760