Hello David, On Jun 11 21:19:07, D.Cottle@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > > You may recall a thread a while back (Recording Specific Channels). I had to drop it at the time, but I’m digging in again. The last suggestion was to update to a more recent version, which I’ve tried, but now I’m just as confused. > > > * I asked our tech staff to an install of a more recent version. He said got a number of errors, but wasn’t specific. I dropped it. > * After getting the email from Jan, Call for Testers, I had them prepare an install that version. > * They were able to do it (and they use a self-service install program, a protocol I more or less have to follow). > * Using their self-service I installed it on my laptop and a machine at school. That worked, but when I run it (simply type “sox”) the top line still says SoX 14.4.2. That’s the same version as I was using, “nine years old.” if you installed the version from https://github.com/janstary/sox/tree/build then that's as recent as yesterday. The string "14.4.2" only means I didn't bother to change it as this effort of mine is still pretty far from a release. With this change: diff --git a/sox.h b/sox.h index 0642261b..ccea9ccd 100644 --- a/sox.h +++ b/sox.h @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ The API version of the sox.h file. It is not meant to follow the version number of SoX but it has historically. Please do not count on SOX_LIB_VERSION_CODE staying in sync with the libSoX version. */ -#define SOX_LIB_VERSION_CODE SOX_LIB_VERSION(14, 4, 2) +#define SOX_LIB_VERSION_CODE SOX_LIB_VERSION(15, 0, 0) /** Client API: SoX will present itself as "15.0.0" but will be the same. It's just a number, a nametag you can change. If you installed from https://git.code.sf.net/p/sox/code which is the official master branch (which I am working on top of), you will get code as of 2024-05-30, the latest commit there. > I follow this link<https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/> > which says last update is 2024-06-04. If you click on that, you will see that's when I posted a comment announcing my branch. That comment is the "update" SF is talking about, not any new code. > I downloaded that file, uncompressed, > at it also says sox-14.4.2, Feb 22, 2015. That means you downloaded the latest release. There is no newer one, because SoX is not being properly maintained. Downstream packagers and end users have been mainly using the git repo recently, tired of waiting for another release. For example, OpenBSD builds it audio/sox package http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/audio/sox/Makefile on top of a commit of 2021-05-09 so that's what you get when you 'pkg_add sox' on OpenBSD. Your OS might do something similar, so you might noit need to do this yourself. Do I remember right you are on macOS? macOS itself has no infrastructure for packaging third-party software (as do the BSDs and Linuxes), but there is MacPorts, and they have a version of SoX https://www.macports.org/ https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/tree/master/audio/sox - but that's apparantly just a slight tweak of 14.4.2. That being said, it is not very hard to build from source. > So now I’m confused. Where can I get a more recent copy? https://git.code.sf.net/p/sox/code holds the latest code in the "official" branch of SoX at SourceForge. https://github.com/janstary/sox/tree/build holds the latest code of my forked effort to resurrect SoX after a decade. Jan Once you get that working, do come back with the music school recordings, that was a pretty interesting use case. _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users
