Release candidate 14.5.0-rc1

[SoX NG <sox_ng@fastmail.com>]

I am happy to announce the first release candidate
of the first minor (new features) release of sox_ng
incorporating new work done over the last nine years.

https://codeberg.org/sox_ng/sox_ng/releases/download/sox_ng-14.5.0-rc1/sox_ng-14.5.0-rc1.tar.gz

New features:

   o Add effect speexdsp with automatic gain control and noise reduction
   o Auto-detect MP3 files
   o If ./configured --with-ffmpeg and ffmpeg is installed, autoread 
formats:
     3g2, 3gp, aac, ac3, adts, adx, ape, apm, aptx, argo_asf, asf, ast, avi,
     dfpwm, dts, dvd, eac3, f4v, flv, gxf, ism, kvag, loas, m4a, m4v, 
mkv, mlp,
     mp4, mpeg, mpegts, mxf, nut, oga (Ogg with FLAC data), ra, rm, rso, 
sbc,
     smjpeg, spdif, speex, svcd, tta, vag, vcd, vob, webm, wma, wsaud, wtv
     and yet more with -t ffmpeg
   o Add "stat -a" to give the average power spectrum
   o Add "spectrogram -n" flag to normalize its brightness
   o Add "spectrogram -L" flag to give a logarithmic frequency axis
   o Add "spectrogram -R" flag to specify the frequency range
   o Raise spectrogram's height limit from 8193 to 200000 pixels
   o Lower the minimum speed of the flanger effect from 0.1 to 0.01 Hz
   o Make combine effects work when there's a single file
   o riaa: Add 192kHz sample rate
   o sphere format: Support ALAW encoding
   o SD2 format: Support resource forks
   o ID3 tags: Support unicode when writing
   o WAV files: Read when the number of valid bits is less that the 
sample size
   o Use posix_fadvise to increase readahead and double its speed
   o Use FFTW to make non-2^n-size spectrograms a hundred times faster
   o Resize Linux pipe buffers to make multi-threaded effects 10-80% faster
   o Reduce sox -t pulseaudio --[input-]buffer latency from up to 2 secs 
to low
   o Read files that are still being written to by another process
   o Enable building with libmpg123 instead of libmad (no seek support yet)
   o Enable building to fetch URLs with curl instead of wget
   o Be able to read files that are still being written by another process
   o Make "make check" run the regression test suite
   o Drop sox_version_info_t's "time" element to get reproducible builds
   o Remove the undocumented and useless "divide" effect
   o Remove obsolete ./configure --disable-stack-protector

Bug fixes since 14.4.3.1:

   o Fix coreaudio device name truncation on MacOS X
   o Americanize spelling in the manual
   o Make "make installcheck" work again
   o Fix the delay buffer full flag assigned during drain
   o ./configure --with-{amrnb,amrwb,sndfile}=dyn --without-dyn-default
     used to link them statically
   o Drop the unreliable pipe-rewinding libc hacks and do it in-house
   o Fix bug introduced in sox_ng-14.4.3: au files with "-t ao" play short
   o Fix segfault when --norm is passed with no parameter
   o Fix compilation on Haiku, NetBSD, OpenBSD, AIX 7.1 and with gcc-2.95

Please test, especially the new features, and send problem reports
to sox_ng@fastmail.com or sox-ng@groups.io and if you feel that
some new feature is inappropriate to SoX, please object.

Thanks to everyone who has worked on SoX over time -
they are credited in the git log - and to the people who
run the marvellous GCC Compile Farm.

    M


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