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Changelog between 1.0.23 and 1.0.24 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.23_v1.0.24)

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* alsa-utils

  +  Core

          Release v1.0.24

          configure.in: Fix xmlto detection

          alsactl: Add a --with-udev-rules-dir configure option.

          configure.in: Fix variable name

          alsactl: Move asound.state location to /var/lib/alsa

          alsactl: systemd and udev hookup

          Introduce alsaloop utility

          alsaucm: Add Use Case Manager utility

          Revert wrong parts of "alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions"

          alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions

  +  ALSA Control (alsactl)

          alsactl: Add a --with-udev-rules-dir configure option.

          alsactl: Move asound.state location to /var/lib/alsa

          alsactl: systemd and udev hookup

          alsactl init: Initialize also "Master Front Playback Volume" & "Switch"

          alsactl init: Handle "Capture Source" and "Mic Boost" in the default script

          alsactl: Change handling of inactive controls

          alsactl init: use "generic method" instead "guess method"

          alsactl init: Use "Found hardware:" instead "Unknown hardware:"

          Revert wrong parts of "alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions"

          alsactl: change format of comment node in state file

          alsactl: correctly restore dB values of controls with changed range

          alsactl: remove open-coded search

          alsactl: move alloca out of loop

          alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions

  +  Speaker Test

          speaker-test: Don't retry after fatal errors

          speaker-test: add test pattern for PCM layer debugging purposes

  +  aconnect

          Revert wrong parts of "alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions"

          alsactl: use snd_config_imake* functions

  +  alsaconf

          alsactl: Move asound.state location to /var/lib/alsa

  +  alsaloop

          alsaloop: rework the ctl event handling routine

          alsaloop: Delay the restart a bit (to handle snd-aloop playback xruns better)

          alsaloop: Fix latency print

          alsaloop: fixes, added -W/--wake option

          alsaloop: add -U/--xrun to alsaloop.1 man page

          alsaloop: added xrun profiling support (-U,--xrun), added SIGUSR1 state dump

          alsaloop: add --pctl and --cctl options to man page

          alsaloop: add --pctl and --cctl options

          alsaloop: Fixes and added --workaround option

          alsaloop: Fix command-line parsing and pollfd initialization

          alsaloop: Add OSS mixer redirection support

          alsaloop: added resampling for unsupported soundcard rates

          alsaloop: fix resample argument parsing

          alsaloop: fix -a option and slave mode processing

          alsaloop: Fix thread handling

          alsaloop: Fix loopbacks pointer initialization and allocation, fix -T option

          Introduce alsaloop utility

  + alsamixer

          alsamixer: use cubic scale for volume bars

          alsamixer: increase step size for big control value ranges

          alsamixer: remove obsolete e-mail

          alsamixer: remove obsolete e-mail

  +  alsaucm

          alsaucm: fix command line arguments parsing

          ucm: added listcards command

          alsaucm: initial rewrite to use update API

          alsaucm: Report failure to set a device due to missing verb setup

          alsaucm: Add Use Case Manager utility

  +  amixer

          amixer: fix parsing of control ID name

  +  aplay/arecord

          aplay/arecord: term_c_lflag variable might be unitialized in some cases

          aplay: fix termio settings - return back old c_flag value on exit

          aplay/arecord: Added hardware pause support (press SPACE or Enter)

Changelog between 1.0.22 and 1.0.23 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.22_v1.0.23)

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* alsa-utils

  +  Core

          Release v1.0.23

  +  ALSA Control (alsactl)

          alsactl: update debug prints in state.c

          alsactl: add more debug prints to state.c

          alsactl: improve -d to get warnings and store exitcode to runstate file

          alsactl: Fix return code

  +  ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)

          amidi: fix port listing

  +  Speaker Test

          speaker-test: add fflush(stdout) to write_loop

  +  aconnect

          aconnect -x: Do not update index after removal of connection.

  +  alsamixer

          alsamixer: handle out-of-range volume values

          alsamixer: fix division by zero

  +  amixer

          amixer: add support for TLV dB minmax types

          amixer: fix display of unreadable control elements

  +  aplay/arecord

          aplay -- update the man file

          aplay -- add features for audio surveilance

          aplay - add option --process-id-file

          aplay: Dump PCM state on xrun when verbose mode is active

Changelog between 1.0.21 and 1.0.22 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.21_v1.0.22)

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* alsa-utils

  +  Core

          Release v1.0.22

  +  ALSA Control (alsactl)

          alsactl: fix error path code in init_parse.c

          alsactl: init - default - initialize also "Digital Input Source"

          alsactl init: Add CTL{do_search} and CTL{do_count} parsers

          alsactl init: use empty GOTOs in init/default file to increase readability

          alsactl: introduce CTL{write} to match directly written CTL values

          alsactl - Initialize Speaker volume to 0dB when Master is present

          alsactl init: Fix typo "(" -> "{" in Headphone default rule

  +  Speaker Test

          speaker-test: not all sample formats are supported - show only supported ones

          speaker-test: add -d (--debug) option to show PCM parameters

  +  aplay/arecord

          arecord: fix wrong chunk_size initialization when verbose and mmap flags are set

          aplay - Show available formats

Changelog between 1.0.20 and 1.0.21 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.20_v1.0.21)

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* alsa-utils

  +  Core

          Release v1.0.21

          alsamixer: show channel names for multichannel control

  +  /include/Makefile.am

          alsamixer: show channel names for multichannel control

  +  ALSA Control (alsactl)

          alsactl init rules: fix Lenovo T61 initialization (Speaker Playback Switch

          alsactl: init - fix default configuration for ENS137

          alsactl: fixed Headphone Playback Volume setting in default rule

  +  Speaker Test

          speaker-test: only check byte order onc

          speaker-test: move existing endian macros up in the fil

          Remove dead/commented out cod

          Allow frequencies down to 30 H

          speaker-test: allow frequency to be floating poin

  +  alsamixer

          alsamixer: fix display of inactive volume ba

          alsamixer: rename attr to c

          alsamixer - Tricolorize volume bar

          alsamixer: update man pag

          alsamixer: fix text box clipping with multi-column character

          alsamixer - Fix uninitialized variable warnin

          alsamixer: show channel names for multichannel control

  +  aplaymidi/arecordmidi

          aplaymidi: reduce bandwidth for big SysEx message

Changelog between 1.0.19 and 1.0.20 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.19_v1.0.20)

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* alsa-utils

  +  Core

    -Fix build with partially-installed alsa-lib

    -aplay/arecord: fix underrun/overrun time calculation for monotonic clock

    -Release v1.0.20

  +  ALSA Control (alsactl)

    -Use ANSI C functions

    -alsactl: init - modify default rule to better support some HDA codecs

    -Fix misc compile warnings in alsactl

    -alsactl - Add missing -I option

    -alsactl/init: Fix CTL{value} assigning - make it relevant to documentation

    -alsactl: init rules - fix HDA Conexact codec PCM initialization

    -alsactl: fix sysfsroot path and parser extensions

    -alsactl: changes in initialization files

    -alsactl: add ca0106 initialization file

    -alsactl: ca0106 initialization files - wrong exit

  +  Speaker Test

    -speaker-test.c - add readability comments to speaker channels

  +  alsaconf

    -alsaconf - prefer /etc/modprobe.d/sound/50-sound.conf

  +  alsamixer

    -ALSA: Added vi-like key bindings to alsamixer.

  +  aplay/arecord

    -aplay/arecord: fix underrun/overrun time calculation for monotonic clock

    -aplay/arecord: remove debug printfs introduced by previous patch

    -aplay/arecord: improve suspicious buffer detection and add --test-coef parameter

Changelog between 1.0.18 and 1.0.19 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.18_v1.0.19)

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* alsa-utils

   Core

    -Add --disable-xmlto configure option

    -Release v1.0.19

  +  ALSA Control (alsactl)

    -Add --disable-xmlto configure option

    -Add -I option to alsactl

    -Remove some dead code (comparisons between 0 and unsigned integers).

    -Mark static the functions not used outside their unit.

    -Make some static tables and strings constants.

    -alsactl: Fix restore / init call behaviour when driver contains more controls

    -alsa-utils check if __USE_BSD is defined before compiling "BSD functions"

  +  ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)

    -Mark static the functions not used outside their unit.

    -Make some static tables and strings constants.

  +  Speaker Test

    -Move conditional inclusion of locale.h further down.

    -Remove some unused variables.

    -speaker-test: Fix floating-point exception bug

  +  alsaconf

    -alsaconf: add Slackware support

    -Create a special fd redirection for menu choice.

    -Nowadays Gentoo also uses update-modules, so update alsaconf.

  +  alsamixer

    -Make some static tables and strings constants.

  +  amixer

    -Mark static the functions not used outside their unit.

    -Make some static tables and strings constants.

  +  aplay/arecord

    -Fix wrong direction check in aplay/arecord --list-pcms

  +  aseqnet

    -aseqnet - Add $(INTLLIBS) to Makefile.am

Changelog between 1.0.17 and 1.0.18 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17_v1.0.18)

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* alsa-utils

  +  Core

    -alsactl - install initialization files

    -Release v1.0.18rc1

    -Release v1.0.18rc2

    -Remove unneeded files from EXTRA_DIST in root Makefile.am

    -Release v1.0.18rc3

    -Add --disable-alsaconf to configure script

    -Release v1.0.18

  +  ALSA Control (alsactl)

    -Initial 'alsactl init' implementation

    -alsactl init: added support for Lenovo T61

    -alsactl init: Changed support for Acer Travelmate 8100 (use subvendor and subdevice for matching)

    -alsactl init - Fix Lenovo T61 configuraton

    -alsactl - install initialization files

    -alsactl init configuration syntax changes

    -alsactl init - allow enum specification by name strings

    -alsactl init - add dB and percentual CTL{value} parsing for integer values

    -alsactl init - restore calls also init on failure

    -alsactl init - modified configuration for Acer Travelmate 8100

    -alsactl init - fixed enumeration string setting, update Lenovo T61 config (dB)

    -alsactl init - add ATTR{dBmin} and ATTR{dBmax}

    -alsactl init - CTL{values}, CTL{enums} and default "guess method" initialization

    -alsactl init - add default command to help config and fix packaging

    -alsactl - remove 'names' command, fix alsactl man page

    -alsactl: Allow card specification by device name (support for udev)

    -alsactl init - fixed EXTRA_DIST typo in alsactl/init subdirectory

    -alsactl init - fix memory leaks (valgrind helped)

    -alsactl.1 - explicitly notify about ALSA_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

    -Add missing files to be included in alsactl/Makefile.am

    -alsactl: Fix oops (when parsing card argument)

    -alsactl: Add -g,--ignore option to ignore 'No soundcards found' error

  +  Speaker Test

    -alsactl - install initialization files

  +  amixer

    -amixer - fixed TLV dBscale and added dBrange parsing

  +  aplay/arecord

    -aplay - show sample arrangement (mmap areas) in verbose more for debugging

    -aplay/arecord: add --test-position test

  +  iecset

    -iecset update for new consumer status channel bits

    -iecset - Add missing help text for -n option

Changelog between 1.0.16 and 1.0.17 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.16_v1.0.17)

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* alsa-utils

  +  Core

    - Require alsa-lib 1.0.16

    - Add check of ncurses*-config

    - hgcompile -> gitcompile

    - Release v1.0.17rc1

    - Release v1.0.17rc2

    - Release v1.0.17

  +  ALSA Control (alsactl)

    - alsactl: simplify and fix item type detection

  +  Speaker Test

    - speaker-test.c - fix sine generator on big-endian archs

    - speaker-test.c - fix pink noise generator on big-endian archs

  +  alsaconf

    - alsaconf: use 'type -p', not which

  +  alsamixer

    - Add check of ncurses*-config

  +  aplay/arecord

    - aplay/arecord - Add support for IEEE float 32-bit WAV files

    - Support for playing WAV files with "extensible format" header using aplay.

    - aplay - Add stereo VU-meter support

    - aplay - Fix a compile warning

  +  aplaymidi/arecordmidi

    - fix poll timeout

  +  aseqdump

    - aseqdump: increase verbosity

    - fix poll timeout

    - aseqdump: flush output

  +  gitcompile

    - renamed hgcompile to gitcompile

  +  hgcompile

    - renamed hgcompile to gitcompile

Changelog between 1.0.15 and 1.0.16 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.15_v1.0.16)

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* alsa-utils

  +  Core

    - alsactl - restore dB level

  +  ALSA Control (alsactl)

    - alsactl - Fix wrong restore

    - alsactl: skip inactive controls

    - alsactl - fix double entry of comment.tlv

    - alsactl - Set -F option as default

    - Make alsactl restore a bit more robust

    - alsactl - restore dB level

  +  Speaker Test

    - speaker-test - Fix number of periods to play

    - speaker-test - Put errors to stderr

    - Remove xfer_align

  +  alsamixer

    - alsamixer: add 8-channel support

  +  aplay/arecord

    - aplay - Reset non-blocking flag before snd_pcm_drain()

    - Remove sleep_min from aplay

    - Remove xfer_align

  +  aseqnet

    - Add missing inclusion of assert.h

  +  iecset

    - iecset: fix card index check

    - iecset - Add -n option

Changelog between 1.0.14 and 1.0.15 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.14_v1.0.15)

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* alsa-utils

  + ALSA Control (alsactl)

    - alsactl - Remove debug print

  + Speaker Test

    - Add missing library dependency

  + alsaconf

    - alsaconf - Don't produce hwcfg file for openSUSE 10.3

  + alsamixer

    - alsamixer - Handle capture enums separately

    - amixer/alsamixer - updated go scripts for debugging

  + amixer

    - amixer - Fix selection of enum items

    - Ignore errors with -s option

    - amixer - Allow to pass enum item string for cset, too

    - amixer/alsamixer - updated go scripts for debugging

  + aplay/arecord

    - Remove unneeded -lasound

    - aplay - Fix possible endless loop with SIGBART

    - aplay - Fix VU meter

    - aplay - Include missing time.h for time()

  + aplaymidi/arecordmidi

    - arecordmidi: mention SMF type in man page

Changelog between 1.0.14rc4 and 1.0.14 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-14rc4--v1-0-14.txt)

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* alsa-utils

  + ALSA Control (alsactl)

    - alsactl - Error message when failing to open the config file

    - alsactl - adjust spaces in help texts

    - alsactl - More explicit open error message

    - alsactl - More explicit open error message (#2)

    - alsactl - Display help for names command

  + alsamixer

    - alsamixer - Fix duplicated appearance in All view mode

* alsa-firmware

  + Core

    - Add Dreamcast AICA firmware

  + AICA (Dreamcast) Firmware

    - Renamed aica/licence.txt -> aica/license.txt

    - Add Dreamcast AICA firmware

  + AudioScience ASIHPI Firmware

    - Update ASIHPI firmware 3.07.04

Changelog between 1.0.14rc2 and 1.0.14r4 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-14rc3--v1-0-14rc4.txt)

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* alsa-utils

  + Core

    - release 1.0.14rc2

  + ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)

    - amidi: open devices non-blockingly

  + amixer

    - amixer - show iec958 status bits in contents command

Changelog between 1.0.14rc1 and 1.0.14r2 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-14rc1--v1-0-14rc2.txt)

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* alsa-utils

  + aconnect

    - Fix aconnect man page

Changelog between 1.0.13 and 1.0.14rc1 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-13--v1-0-14rc1.txt)

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* alsa-utils

  + Core

    - utils: Make default sample files be in /usr/share/sounds/alsa

    - alsa-utils.spec.in - additions

  + ALSA Control (alsactl)

    - alsactl - return error state, fail when no configuration is found

  + Speaker Test

    - speaker-test: fix typos in manpage

  + alsaconf

    - alsaconf fix: cannot find the snd-powerpc module

    - alsaconf - rcalsasound script does not exists in some distros

  + alsamixer

    - alsamixer: cosmetic fix

  + amixer

    - Implement Playback/Capture enum.

    - amixer: sset - check if command is valid

    - amixer - remove beep on errors in arguments

  + aplay/arecord

    - Fix argument for snd_device_name_hint().

    - aplay: add fflush(stdout) for -vvv verbosity

    - fix for recent namehint API (use get_hint function)

    - aplay: namehint fix - use filter before printing device name

    - aplay/arecord -L command: process properly end-of-line characters

    - aplay/arecord: Remove -n commad (obsolete, undocumented)

    - aplay/arecord - use snd_device_name_hint() for -L command

    - aplay/arecord: filter direction for -L command

  + aplaymidi/arecordmidi

    - aplaymidi: handle big SysEx commands

Changelog between 1.0.12 and 1.0.13 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-12--v1-0-13.txt)

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* alsa-utils

  + ALSA Control (alsactl)

    - Restore user-defined TLV

  + alsaconf

    - Fix setup for SLES10/SLED10

    - Initialize volumes using dB in alsaconf

  + alsamixer

    - Show the mute dB state correctly

  + amixer

    - Add handling of dB to amixer

    - Add linear-volume handling in amixer

Changelog between 1.0.11 and 1.0.12 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-11--v1-0-12.txt)

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* alsa-utils

  + Core

    - amixer - added basic TLV support (read only) for 'amixer controls'

  + ALSA RawMidi Utility (amidi)

    - amidi: Fix device list

    - amidi: fix --list-devices

  + Speaker Test

    - Fix the default buffer size calculation in speaker-test

  + alsamixer

    - amixer - show dB values for simple mixer interface (which is default)

  + amixer

    - Fix print_dB() with a minus value

    - amixer - show dB values for simple mixer interface (which is default)

    - amixer - added basic TLV support (read only) for 'amixer controls'

  + aplay/arecord

    - Fix segfault in aplay when snd_pcm_name() == NULL

    - Use the right word in message of areacord

    - Don't call close() for the same fd twice in arecord

    - Fix misc bugs in arecord

    - Fix arecord to quit properly at max file size

    - Allow aplay/arecord to handle up to 2GB for WAV

    - Fix a compile warning in aplay.c

    - Fix endless loop of recording in arecord

  + aplaymidi/arecordmidi

    - aplaymidi: list only MIDI-capable ports

Changelog between 1.0.10 and 1.0.11 releases

(http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-10--v1-0-11.txt)

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* alsa-utils

  + Core

    - Add WAV file playback support to speaker-test

      Add WAV file playback support to speaker-test.

      The support is still limited to S16_LE, and doesn't refer to csv file yet.

  + ALSA Control (alsactl)

    - Remove obsolete power command from alsactl

      Remove obsolete power command from alsactl.

  + Speaker Test

    - Improve buffer/period set up in speaker-test

      Improve buffer/period set up in speaker-test.

      - Don't ignore -b and -p options but use them if specified

      - Clean up and improvement of messy buffer/period setup codes

      - Add -P option for specifying number of periods explicitly

    - Fix missing commas

      Fixed missing commas in array elements (ALSA bug#1938).

    - Add --nloops option and fix manpage

      - Added --nloops option to specify the number of loops

      - Fixed man page of speaker-test

    - Fix a typo in speaker-test help text

      Fix a typo in speaker-test help text.  Updated ja.po, too.

    - Make speaker-test compatible with dmix by default.

    - Avoid unnecessary drain/restart in speaker-test

      Avoid unnecessary drain/restart in speaker-test when the buffer

      is enough small.

    - speaker-test - Fix missing i18n

      Add the gettext tags to newly added texts.

    - speaker-test: Fix version reporting.

    - Tentative fix for speaker-test WAV with 5 or more channels

      Fix the WAV file name for center/lfe.  Use the existing

      "Rear_Center.wav" for LFE as a workaround.

    - Add missing comma

      Add a missing comma in the last fix...

    - Fix compile on big-endian arch

      Fix compile on big-endian arch.

    - Remove loops after errors

      Don't retry after fatal errors.

    - Add WAV file playback support to speaker-test

      Add WAV file playback support to speaker-test.

      The support is still limited to S16_LE, and doesn't refer to csv file yet.

  + alsaconf

    - Fix a text in alsa-utils

      Fix a text in alsa-utils after proof-reading.

    - Minor clean up of bashism

      Minor clean up of bashism, replaced with normal test.

    - Fix PCI class and name extraction in alsaconf

      - Allow all PCI class 04xx, not only 040x

      - Fix the extraction of device name from lspci output

      ALSA bug#1935

    - Use amixer -s option

      Optimize to use amixer with -s option.

  + amixer

    - amixer - Add -s option

      - Add -s option to read from stdin the command sequentially.

      - Suppress unneeded warnings in sset.

  + aplay/arecord

    - Fix a typo in manpage

      Fix a typo in manpage of aplay.

    - Don't show invalid plug example in the error message of aplay

      Don't show invalid examples of usage with plug prefix

      in the error message of aplay/arecord.

    - alternative peak meter for aplay

      From: Dirk Jagdmann <doj@cubic.org>

      This patch adds an alternative peak meter for aplay/arecord which is

      enabled via three "-v" command line arguments. This new mode differs

      from the old in a larger meter, no linefeeds for every meter update and

      a static maximum peak (for 1s).

    - split interleaved files in arecord when reaching 2GB

      From: Dirk Jagdmann <doj@cubic.org>

      This patch will split files in chunks of aprox. 2GB in the interleaved