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<h1>SoundTouch audio processing library v1.5.1pre
</h1>
<p class="normal">SoundTouch library Copyright © Olli Parviainen 2001-2009
</p>
<hr>
<h2>1. Introduction
</h2>
<p>SoundTouch is an open-source audio processing library that allows changing the
sound tempo, pitch and playback rate parameters independently from each other,
i.e.:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Sound tempo can be increased or decreased while maintaining the original pitch
<li>
Sound pitch can be increased or decreased while maintaining the original tempo
<li>
Change playback rate that affects both tempo and pitch at the same time
<li>
Choose any combination of tempo/pitch/rate</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1 Contact information
</h3>
<p>Author email: oparviai 'at' iki.fi
</p>
<p>SoundTouch WWW page: <a href="http://www.surina.net/soundtouch">http://www.surina.net/soundtouch</a></p>
<hr>
<h2>2. Compiling SoundTouch</h2>
<p>Before compiling, notice that you can choose the sample data format if it's
desirable to use floating point sample data instead of 16bit integers. See
section "sample data format" for more information.</p>
<h3>2.1. Building in Microsoft Windows</h3>
<p>Project files for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual C++ .NET are supplied with
the source code package.&nbsp;</p>
<p>
Please notice that SoundTouch library uses processor-specific optimizations for
Pentium III and AMD processors. Visual Studio .NET and later versions supports
the required instructions by default, but Visual Studio 6.0 requires a
processor pack upgrade to be installed in order to support these optimizations.
The processor pack upgrade can be downloaded from Microsoft site at this URL:</p>
<p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718349.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718349.aspx</a></p>
<p>If the above URL is unavailable or removed, go to <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/">
http://msdn.microsoft.com</a> and perform a search with keywords "processor
pack".
</p>
<p>To build the binaries with Visual C++ compiler, either run "make-win.bat"
script, or open the appropriate project files in source code directories with
Visual Studio. The final executable will appear under the "SoundTouch\bin"
directory. If using the Visual Studio IDE instead of the make-win.bat script,
directories bin and lib may need to be created manually to the SoundTouch
package root for the final executables. The make-win.bat script creates these
directories automatically.
</p>
<h3>2.2. Building in Gnu platforms</h3>
<p>The SoundTouch library can be compiled in practically any platform supporting
GNU compiler (GCC) tools. SoundTouch have been tested with gcc version 3.3.4.,
but it shouldn't be very specific about the gcc version. Assembler-level
performance optimizations for GNU platform are currently available in x86
platforms only, they are automatically disabled and replaced with standard C
routines in other processor platforms.</p>
<p>To build and install the binaries, run the following commands in the SoundTouch/
directory:</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4">
<tbody>
<tr valign="top">
<td>
<pre>./configure -</pre>
</td>
<td>
<p>Configures the SoundTouch package for the local environment.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>
<pre>make -</pre>
</td>
<td>
<p>Builds the SoundTouch library &amp; SoundStretch utility.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>
<pre>make install -</pre>
</td>
<td>
<p>Installs the SoundTouch &amp; BPM libraries to <b>/usr/local/lib</b> and
SoundStretch utility to <b>/usr/local/bin</b>. Please notice that 'root'
privileges may be required to install the binaries to the destination
locations.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h4><b>2.2.1 Required GNU tools</b>&nbsp;</h4>
<p>
Bash shell, GNU C++ compiler, libtool, autoconf and automake tools are required
for compiling the SoundTouch library. These are usually included with the
GNU/Linux distribution, but if not, install these packages first. For example,
in Ubuntu Linux these can be acquired and installed with the following command:</p>
<pre><b>sudo apt-get install automake autoconf libtool build-essential</b></pre>
<h4><b>2.2.2 Problems with GCC compiler compatibility</b></h4>
<p>At the release time the SoundTouch package has been tested to compile in
GNU/Linux platform. However, in past it's happened that new gcc versions aren't
necessarily compatible with the assembler settings used in the optimized
routines. <b>If you have problems getting the SoundTouch library compiled, try the
workaround of disabling the optimizations</b> by editing the file
"include/STTypes.h" and removing the following definition there:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>#define ALLOW_OPTIMIZATIONS 1</pre>
</blockquote>
<h4><b>2.2.3 Problems with configure script or build process</b>&nbsp;</h4>
<p>Incompatibilities between various GNU toolchain versions may cause errors when
running the "configure" script or building the source codes, if your GNU tool
versions are not compatible with the versions used for preparing the SoundTouch
kit.&nbsp;</p>
<p>To resolve the issue, regenerate the configure scripts with your local tool set
by running the "<b>./bootstrap</b>" script included in the SoundTouch source
code kit. After that, run the <b>configure</b> script and <b>make</b> as
usually.</p>
<h4><b>2.2.4 Compiler issues with non-x86 processors</b></h4>
<p>SoundTouch library works also on non-x86 processors.</p>
<p>However, in case that you get compiler errors when trying to compile for
non-Intel processor, edit the file "<b>source\SoundTouch\Makefile.am</b>" and
remove the "<b>-msse2</b>" flag on the <b>AM_CXXFLAGS </b>line:</p>
<pre><b>AM_CXXFLAGS=-O3 -fcheck-new -I../../include&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # Note: -msse2 flag removed!</b></pre>
<p>After that, run "<b>./bootstrap</b>" script, and then run <b>configure</b> and <b>make</b>
again.</p>
<hr>
<h2>3. About implementation &amp; Usage tips</h2>
<h3>3.1. Supported sample data formats</h3>
<p>The sample data format can be chosen between 16bit signed integer and 32bit
floating point values, the default is 32bit floating point.
</p>
<p>
In Windows environment, the sample data format is chosen in file "STTypes.h" by
choosing one of the following defines:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">#define INTEGER_SAMPLES</span>
for 16bit signed integer
<li>
<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">#define FLOAT_SAMPLES</span>
for 32bit floating point</li>
</ul>
<p>
In GNU environment, the floating sample format is used by default, but integer
sample format can be chosen by giving the following switch to the configure
script: <blockquote>
<pre>./configure --enable-integer-samples</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>The sample data can have either single (mono) or double (stereo) audio channel.
Stereo data is interleaved so that every other data value is for left channel
and every second for right channel. Notice that while it'd be possible in
theory to process stereo sound as two separate mono channels, this isn't
recommended because processing the channels separately would result in losing
the phase coherency between the channels, which consequently would ruin the
stereo effect.</p>
<p>Sample rates between 8000-48000H are supported.</p>
<h3>3.2. Processing latency</h3>
<p>The processing and latency constraints of the SoundTouch library are:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Input/output processing latency for the SoundTouch processor is around 100 ms.
This is when time-stretching is used. If the rate transposing effect alone is
used, the latency requirement is much shorter, see section 'About algorithms'.
<li>
Processing CD-quality sound (16bit stereo sound with 44100H sample rate) in
real-time or faster is possible starting from processors equivalent to Intel
Pentium 133Mh or better, if using the "quick" processing algorithm. If not
using the "quick" mode or if floating point sample data are being used, several
times more CPU power is typically required.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3.3. About algorithms</h3>
<p>SoundTouch provides three seemingly independent effects: tempo, pitch and
playback rate control. These three controls are implemented as combination of
two primary effects, <em>sample rate transposing</em> and <em>time-stretching</em>.</p>
<p><em>Sample rate transposing</em> affects both the audio stream duration and
pitch. It's implemented simply by converting the original audio sample stream
to the&nbsp; desired duration by interpolating from the original audio samples.
In SoundTouch, linear interpolation with anti-alias filtering is used.
Theoretically a higher-order interpolation provide better result than 1st order
linear interpolation, but in audio application linear interpolation together
with anti-alias filtering performs subjectively about as well as higher-order
filtering would.</p>
<p><em>Time-stretching </em>means changing the audio stream duration without
affecting it's pitch. SoundTouch uses WSOLA-like time-stretching routines that
operate in the time domain. Compared to sample rate transposing,
time-stretching is a much heavier operation and also requires a longer
processing "window" of sound samples used by the processing algorithm, thus
increasing the algorithm input/output latency. Typical i/o latency for the
SoundTouch time-stretch algorithm is around 100 ms.</p>
<p>Sample rate transposing and time-stretching are then used together to produce
the tempo, pitch and rate controls:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>'Tempo'</strong>
control is implemented purely by time-stretching.
<li>
<strong>'Rate</strong>' control is implemented purely by sample rate
transposing.
<li>
<strong>'Pitch</strong>' control is implemented as a combination of
time-stretching and sample rate transposing. For example, to increase pitch the
audio stream is first time-stretched to longer duration (without affecting
pitch) and then transposed back to original duration by sample rate
transposing, which simultaneously reduces duration and increases pitch. The
result is original duration but increased pitch.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3.4 Tuning the algorithm parameters</h3>
<p>The time-stretch algorithm has few parameters that can be tuned to optimize
sound quality for certain application. The current default parameters have been
chosen by iterative if-then analysis (read: "trial and error") to obtain best
subjective sound quality in pop/rock music processing, but in applications
processing different kind of sound the default parameter set may result into a
sub-optimal result.</p>
<p>The time-stretch algorithm default parameter values are set by the following
#defines in file "TDStretch.h":</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>#define DEFAULT_SEQUENCE_MS AUTOMATIC
#define DEFAULT_SEEKWINDOW_MS AUTOMATIC
#define DEFAULT_OVERLAP_MS 8</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>These parameters affect to the time-stretch algorithm as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>DEFAULT_SEQUENCE_MS</strong>: This is the default length of a single
processing sequence in milliseconds which determines the how the original sound
is chopped in the time-stretch algorithm. Larger values mean fewer sequences
are used in processing. In principle a larger value sounds better when slowing
down the tempo, but worse when increasing the tempo and vice versa.&nbsp;<br>
<br>
By default, this setting value is calculated automatically according to tempo
value.<br>
<li>
<strong>DEFAULT_SEEKWINDOW_MS</strong>: The seeking window default length in
milliseconds is for the algorithm that seeks the best possible overlapping
location. This determines from how wide a sample "window" the algorithm can use
to find an optimal mixing location when the sound sequences are to be linked
back together.&nbsp;<br>
<br>
The bigger this window setting is, the higher the possibility to find a better
mixing position becomes, but at the same time large values may cause a
"drifting" sound artifact because neighboring sequences can be chosen at more
uneven intervals. If there's a disturbing artifact that sounds as if a constant
frequency was drifting around, try reducing this setting.<br>
<br>
By default, this setting value is calculated automatically according to tempo
value.<br>
<li>
<strong>DEFAULT_OVERLAP_MS</strong>: Overlap length in milliseconds. When the
sound sequences are mixed back together to form again a continuous sound
stream, this parameter defines how much the ends of the consecutive sequences
will overlap with each other.<br>
<br>
This shouldn't be that critical parameter. If you reduce the
DEFAULT_SEQUENCE_MS setting by a large amount, you might wish to try a smaller
value on this.</li>
</ul>
<p>Notice that these parameters can also be set during execution time with
functions "<strong>TDStretch::setParameters()</strong>" and "<strong>SoundTouch::setSetting()</strong>".</p>
<p>The table below summaries how the parameters can be adjusted for different
applications:</p>
<table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><strong>Parameter name</strong></td>
<td valign="top"><strong>Default value magnitude</strong></td>
<td valign="top"><strong>Larger value affects...</strong></td>
<td valign="top"><strong>Smaller value affects...</strong></td>
<td valign="top"><strong>Effect to CPU burden</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>SEQUENCE_MS</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Default value is relatively large, chosen for slowing down music
tempo</td>
<td valign="top">Larger value is usually better for slowing down tempo. Growing the
value decelerates the "echoing" artifact when slowing down the tempo.</td>
<td valign="top">Smaller value might be better for speeding up tempo. Reducing the
value accelerates the "echoing" artifact when slowing down the tempo
</td>
<td valign="top">Increasing the parameter value reduces computation burden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>SEEKWINDOW_MS</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Default value is relatively large, chosen for slowing down music
tempo</td>
<td valign="top">Larger value eases finding a good mixing position, but may cause a
"drifting" artifact</td>
<td valign="top">Smaller reduce possibility to find a good mixing position, but
reduce the "drifting" artifact.</td>
<td valign="top">Increasing the parameter value increases computation burden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>OVERLAP_MS</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Default value is relatively large, chosen to suit with above
parameters.</td>
<td valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top">If you reduce the "sequence ms" setting, you might wish to try a
smaller value.</td>
<td valign="top">Increasing the parameter value increases computation burden</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>3.5 Performance Optimizations
</h3>
<p><strong>General optimizations:</strong></p>
<p>The time-stretch routine has a 'quick' mode that substantially speeds up the
algorithm but may degrade the sound quality by a small amount. This mode is
activated by calling SoundTouch::setSetting() function with parameter&nbsp; id
of SETTING_USE_QUICKSEEK and value "1", i.e.
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>setSetting(SETTING_USE_QUICKSEEK, 1);</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>CPU-specific optimizations:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
Intel MMX optimized routines are used with compatible CPUs when 16bit integer
sample type is used. MMX optimizations are available both in Win32 and Gnu/x86
platforms. Compatible processors are Intel PentiumMMX and later; AMD K6-2,
Athlon and later.
<li>
Intel SSE optimized routines are used with compatible CPUs when floating point
sample type is used. SSE optimizations are currently implemented for Win32
platform only. Processors compatible with SSE extension are Intel processors
starting from Pentium-III, and AMD processors starting from Athlon XP.
<li>
AMD 3DNow! optimized routines are used with compatible CPUs when floating point
sample type is used, but SSE extension isn't supported . 3DNow! optimizations
are currently implemented for Win32 platform only. These optimizations are used
in AMD K6-2 and Athlon (classic) CPU's; better performing SSE routines are used
with AMD processor starting from Athlon XP.
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2><a name="SoundStretch"></a>4. SoundStretch audio processing utility
</h2>
<p>SoundStretch audio processing utility<br>
Copyright (c) Olli Parviainen 2002-2009</p>
<p>SoundStretch is a simple command-line application that can change tempo, pitch
and playback rates of WAV sound files. This program is intended primarily to
demonstrate how the "SoundTouch" library can be used to process sound in your
own program, but it can as well be used for processing sound files.</p>
<h3>4.1. SoundStretch Usage Instructions</h3>
<p>SoundStretch Usage syntax:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>soundstretch infilename outfilename [switches]</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>Where:
</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>"infilename"</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Name of the input sound data file (in .WAV audio file format).
Give "stdin" as filename to use standard input pipe.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>"outfilename"</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Name of the output sound file where the resulting sound is saved
(in .WAV audio file format). This parameter may be omitted if you&nbsp; don't
want to save the output (e.g. when only calculating BPM rate with '-bpm'
switch). Give "stdout" as filename to use standard output pipe.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>&nbsp;[switches]</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Are one or more control switches.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Available control switches are:</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>-tempo=n </pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Change the sound tempo by n percents (n = -95.0 .. +5000.0 %)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>-pitch=n</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Change the sound pitch by n semitones (n = -60.0 .. + 60.0
semitones)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>-rate=n</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Change the sound playback rate by n percents (n = -95.0 .. +5000.0
%)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>-bpm=n</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Detect the Beats-Per-Minute (BPM) rate of the sound and adjust the
tempo to meet 'n' BPMs. When this switch is applied, the "-tempo" switch is
ignored. If "=n" is omitted, i.e. switch "-bpm" is used alone, then the BPM
rate is estimated and displayed, but tempo not adjusted according to the BPM
value.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>-quick</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Use quicker tempo change algorithm. Gains speed but loses sound
quality.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>-naa</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Don't use anti-alias filtering in sample rate transposing. Gains
speed but loses sound quality.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<pre>-license</pre>
</td>
<td valign="top">Displays the program license text (LGPL)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Notes:</p>
<ul>
<li>
To use standard input/output pipes for processing, give "stdin" and "stdout" as
input/output filenames correspondingly. The standard input/output pipes will
still carry the audio data in .wav audio file format.
<li>
The numerical switches allow both integer (e.g. "-tempo=123") and decimal (e.g.
"-tempo=123.45") numbers.
<li>
The "-naa" and/or "-quick" switches can be used to reduce CPU usage while
compromising some sound quality
<li>
The BPM detection algorithm works by detecting repeating bass or drum patterns
at low frequencies of &lt;250Hz. A lower-than-expected BPM figure may be
reported for music with uneven or complex bass patterns.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>4.2. SoundStretch usage examples
</h3>
<p><strong>Example 1</strong></p>
<p>The following command increases tempo of the sound file "originalfile.wav" by
12.5% and stores result to file "destinationfile.wav":</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>soundstretch originalfile.wav destinationfile.wav -tempo=12.5</pre>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Example 2</strong></p>
<p>The following command decreases the sound pitch (key) of the sound file
"orig.wav" by two semitones and stores the result to file "dest.wav":</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>soundstretch orig.wav dest.wav -pitch=-2</pre>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Example 3</strong></p>
<p>The following command processes the file "orig.wav" by decreasing the sound
tempo by 25.3% and increasing the sound pitch (key) by 1.5 semitones. Resulting
.wav audio data is directed to standard output pipe:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>soundstretch orig.wav stdout -tempo=-25.3 -pitch=1.5</pre>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Example 4</strong></p>
<p>The following command detects the BPM rate of the file "orig.wav" and adjusts
the tempo to match 100 beats per minute. Result is stored to file "dest.wav":</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>soundstretch orig.wav dest.wav -bpm=100</pre>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Example 5</strong></p>
<p>The following command reads .wav sound data from standard input pipe and
estimates the BPM rate:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>soundstretch stdin -bpm</pre>
</blockquote>
<hr>
<h2>5. Change History</h2>
<h3>5.1. SoundTouch library Change History
</h3>
<p><b>1.5.1pre:</b></p>
<UL>
<li>
Added automatic cutoff threshold adaptation to beat detection routine to better
adapt BPM calculation&nbsp; to different types of music
<LI>
Retired 3DNow! optimization support as 3DNow! is nowadays obsolete and
assembler code is nuisance to maintain.</LI></UL>
<p><strong>1.5.0:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
Added normalization to correlation calculation and improvement automatic
seek/sequence parameter calculation to improve sound quality
<li>
Bugfixes:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>
Fixed negative array indexing in quick seek algorithm
<li>
FIR autoalias filter running too far in processing buffer
<li>
Check against zero sample count in rate transposing
<li>
Fix for x86-64 support: Removed pop/push instructions from the cpu detection
algorithm.&nbsp;
<li>
Check against empty buffers in FIFOSampleBuffer
<li>
Other minor fixes &amp; code cleanup</li>
</ul>
<li>
Fixes in compilation scripts for non-Intel platforms
<li>
Added Dynamic-Link-Library (DLL) version of SoundTouch library build, provided
with Delphi/Pascal wrapper for calling the dll routines
<li>
Added #define PREVENT_CLICK_AT_RATE_CROSSOVER that prevents a click artifact
when crossing the nominal pitch from either positive to negative side or vice
versa</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>1.4.1:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
Fixed a buffer overflow bug in BPM detect algorithm routines if processing more
than 2048 samples at one call&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>1.4.0:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
Improved sound quality by automatic calculation of time stretch algorithm
processing parameters according to tempo setting
<li>
Moved BPM detection routines from SoundStretch application into SoundTouch
library
<li>
Bugfixes: Usage of uninitialied variables, GNU build scripts, compiler errors
due to 'const' keyword mismatch.
<li>
Source code cleanup</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.3.1: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Changed static class declaration to GCC 4.x compiler compatible syntax.
<li>
Enabled MMX/SSE-optimized routines also for GCC compilers. Earlier the
MMX/SSE-optimized routines were written in compiler-specific inline assembler,
now these routines are migrated to use compiler intrinsic syntax which allows
compiling the same MMX/SSE-optimized source code with both Visual C++ and GCC
compilers.
<li>
Set floating point as the default sample format and added switch to the GNU
configure script for selecting the other sample format.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.3.0: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Fixed tempo routine output duration inaccuracy due to rounding error
<li>
Implemented separate processing routines for integer and floating arithmetic to
allow improvements to floating point routines (earlier used algorithms mostly
optimized for integer arithmetic also for floating point samples)
<li>
Fixed a bug that distorts sound if sample rate changes during the sound stream
<li>
Fixed a memory leak that appeared in MMX/SSE/3DNow! optimized routines
<li>
Reduced redundant code pieces in MMX/SSE/3DNow! optimized routines vs. the
standard C routines.
<li>
MMX routine incompatibility with new gcc compiler versions
<li>
Other miscellaneous bug fixes
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.2.1: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Added automake/autoconf scripts for GNU platforms (in courtesy of David Durham)
<li>
Fixed SCALE overflow bug in rate transposer routine.
<li>
Fixed 64bit address space bugs.
<li>
Created a 'soundtouch' namespace for SAMPLETYPE definitions.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.2.0: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Added support for 32bit floating point sample data type with SSE/3DNow!
optimizations for Win32 platform (SSE/3DNow! optimizations currently not
supported in GCC environment)
<li>
Replaced 'make-gcc' script for GNU environment by master Makefile
<li>
Added time-stretch routine configurability to SoundTouch main class
<li>
Bugfixes</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.1.1: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Moved SoundTouch under lesser GPL license (LGPL). This allows using SoundTouch
library in programs that aren't released under GPL license.
<li>
Changed MMX routine organiation so that MMX optimized routines are now
implemented in classes that are derived from the basic classes having the
standard non-mmx routines.
<li>
MMX routines to support gcc version 3.
<li>
Replaced windows makefiles by script using the .dsw files
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.01: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
"mmx_gcc.cpp": Added "using namespace std" and removed "return 0" from a
function with void return value to fix compiler errors when compiling the
library in Solaris environment.
<li>
Moved file "FIFOSampleBuffer.h" to "include" directory to allow accessing the
FIFOSampleBuffer class from external files.
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.0: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Initial release
</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>5.2. SoundStretch application Change History
</h3>
<p><b>v1.5.0:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>
Added "-speech" switch to activate algorithm parameters more suitable for
speech processing than the default parameters tuned for music processing.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.4.0:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
Moved BPM detection routines from SoundStretch application into SoundTouch
library
<li>
Allow using standard input/output pipes as audio processing input/output
streams</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.3.0:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
Simplified accessing WAV files with floating point sample format.
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.2.1: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Fixed 64bit address space bugs.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.2.0: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Added support for 32bit floating point sample data type
<li>
Restructured the BPM routines into separate library
<li>
Fixed big-endian conversion bugs in WAV file routines (hopefully :)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.1.1: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Fixed bugs in WAV file reading &amp; added byte-order conversion for big-endian
processors.
<li>
Moved SoundStretch source code under 'example' directory to highlight
difference from SoundTouch stuff.
<li>
Replaced windows makefiles by script using the .dsw files
<li>
Output file name isn't required if output isn't desired (e.g. if using the
switch '-bpm' in plain format only)
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.1:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>
Fixed "Release" settings in Microsoft Visual C++ project file (.dsp)
<li>
Added beats-per-minute (BPM) detection routine and command-line switch "-bpm"
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>v1.01: </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Initial release
</li>
</ul>
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<h2>6. Acknowledgements
</h2>
<p>Kudos for these people who have contributed to development or submitted bugfixes
since SoundTouch v1.3.1:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Arthur A
<li>
Richard Ash
<li>
Stanislav Brabec
<li>
Christian Budde
<li>
Brian Cameron
<li>
Jason Champion
<li>
Patrick Colis
<li>
Justin Frankel
<li>
Jason Garland
<li>
Takashi Iwai
<li>
Paulo Pizarro
<li>
RJ Ryan
<li>
John Sheehy</li>
</ul>
<p>Moral greetings to all other contributors and users also!</p>
<hr>
<h2>7. LICENSE
</h2>
<p>SoundTouch audio processing library<br>
Copyright (c) Olli Parviainen</p>
<p>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 as published by
the Free Software Foundation.</p>
<p>This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA</p>
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