Software update: SoX 12.17.9

SoX is a command line utility that allows you to convert, play and record various audio formats. Support for Amiga’s 8svx, Apple’s AIFF, Turtle beach SampleVision, Yamaha TX-16W samplers, mp3, Ogg Vorbis and wav files, among others, is present. Playback and recording of audio files only works on systems with ALSA or OSS installed. The developer has released version 12.17.9 with the following changes:

Things fixed/added since version 12.17.8:

• Add optional status line that tracks progress of read/write routines.
• Updates to compile under VC6.
• Fix remaining samples when seeking in AIFF, SMP, and WAV handlers.
• Changed noise red to only warn during clipping instead of aborting.
• Fixed bug were audio was lost every buffer read when running both -c and -r options together on mono audio.
• Fix silence effect to allow negative periods to be specified (to remove silence from middle of file).
• Track length of Ogg Vorbis files on read.
• Converted ALSA driver to use asoundlib instead of directly talking to kernel driver. This means that device names are now the ALSA logical names instead of /dev type names.
• Added ALSA support to play/rec scripts.
• Added st_open*, st_read, st_write, st_seek, and st_close routines to help simplify devloper interface to libst.
• Force word alignment on AIFF SSND and APPL chunks on input.
• Fixed bug where -4 option didn’t work with avg effect.
• Fixed fade’s fade-out-length to match man page descriptin.
• Allow aborting SoX with SIGTERM, along with previous SIGINT.