Notes on installing this version of Sox.

  o  There have been many different versions of Sox over the years.
     Please check for possible old files hanging around.  This includes
     having symbolic links from "play" and "pplay" to "sox" (which
     is possible from the Lsox package).  Also, check to make sure
     you do not have a version of "sox" placed in a directory that
     can be mistakenly ran in place of the new version.  These
     two things have caused many user problems.
  o  I'm suppling this version of Sox for the time period until an
     offical version is released.  Feel free to send me bug reports
     on anything that I've added to the package.  You can also
     send other bug reports to me as well and I'll try to help
     out but you may also consider sending them to Lance Norskog
     (thinman@netcom.com) for general sox problems.
     
I would like to thank everyone that wrote me about the long
standing bug in Sox that could DELETE your /dev/* file if the
program was aborted for reason such as invalid audio file.  Special
thanks for Bryan Franklin for sending in a patch when I was
to busy to even look for it.

Chris Bagwell (cbagwell@sprynet.com)

Change History

sox-11gamma-cb3
---------------

This release of sox is mainly a bugfix release.  The following things
have changed:

  o  Documentation has been updated when it was obviously wrong.
     Much more work could be done.  Man pages were updated to
     work correctly on Solaris and add some missing info.
  o  Several people sent me patches to fix compiling on Solaris
     as well as fix a few bugs.
  o  Change USS driver's name to OSS.  Man, does that driver
     like to change names!  This could cause problems if you
     have made your own custom play and rec scripts.
  o  Updated my email address.  Sorry if I haven't responded to
     any emails as I no longer have access to my old address.
     Please use cbagwell@sprynet.com.
  o  Fixed unix test scripts so that they worked again.
  o  Fixed endian bug in psion .wve code.
  o  Replaced outdated voc info file with detailed format info
     inside voc code.
  o  Added new sound format, cvsd (Continuously Variable Slope Delta)
     from Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch).

sox-11gamma-cb2
---------------

This release of sox is based on the latest gamma version released
plus some patches I've made to support the following new features:

  o  Better play support for 8-bit stereo voc files.  New support
     for outputing both 8-bit and 16-bit stereo voc files.
  o  Built-in support for playing and recording from Linux /dev/dsp.
     This is a re-write and seperate module from the previous
     support included inside the sbdsp module.  Also fixes a buffer
     size bug that showed up when using newer versions of OSS.
     This driver will work with OSS (and older versions called USS, TASD
     and Voxware).
  o  Support for audio playing and recording with SunOS /dev/audio.
  o  Fixes a bug were /dev/audio or /dev/dsp could be deleted
     when playing an invalid format audio file.
  o  Expanded options for play and rec scripts.  You can now specify
     sox effects after the filename and hear them in real time.
     Please be sure that an older version of sox is not in your path
     because these script will possibly find it first and
     incorrectly use it.  
  o  Setting play/record volume still requires an external program.
     If you have one a command line program to do this (such as
     "mixer" for Linux) then you will want to edit the play and rec
     to use this.  The current support for it is only in example
     form of how it can be done.

