SoX 12.17.3 Released

SoX is meant to be the Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utils. It can convert audio files to other popular audio file types and also apply sound effects and filters during the conversion.

I'd like to announce the release of SoX 12.17.3. It is available for download from http://sox.sf.net/

The following items have changed since the release of SoX 12.17.3:

* Bugfix to Pan effect to work when input and output files have
different number of channels.
* Many bugfixes to trim effect.
* Options parse bug fixed in fade effect.
* IMA support wasnt compiling on alph's.
* Fixed length and encoding error for 16-bit VOC files.
* Moved to a config.h style configuration header instead of passing
options via compiler command line.
* Lots of bugfixes to Silence effect. Now also uses RMS values to
help ignore pops.
* Fixed install problem with play script when installing from
somewhere else then the src directory.
* Now include GSM library inside of the sox package. No need for
external library anymore.
* Modified raw write routines to use a new faster method similar to
read update in 12.17.2.
* Added support for A-law and u-law files that have their bit-order
inversed (ie. MSB becomes LSB).
* Added flush after parameter changes to most audio players to
prevent noise.
* Auto detection was failing for files less then 132 bytes.
* Internal private data wasn't using 8-byte alignment and causing
crashes on Sparc and Motorola CPU's.
* Major internal cleanups to work better on 32-bit platforms.
* There were a few cases where SoX thought EOF was an error
condition and it wasn't.
* Change "float" to be an encoding type of data. Need to specify a
size of 32-bit or 64-bit on command line to represent "float" and
"double".
* Change default to use Fast u-law/A-law lookup tables.
* Several bugfixes to A-law/u-law support. Previously it was quite
easy to clip audio data when working with A-law data.
* Reading Ogg Vorbis files would sometimes not detect EOF properly.
* Added A-law and u-law read support to VOC handler.