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Hello all,
Ecasound 2.4.6 has been released! Releases notes follow:
1. Summary of changes

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Ability to specify a custom configuration resource file

has been added. Several long-standing bugs have been fixed.=20

The licensing of rubyecasound has been changed.
2. What is Ecasound?

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Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio

processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback,=20

recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect=20

processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports=20

a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms.=20

Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their

parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators=20

and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included=20

in the package.
Primary platform for running Ecasound is GNU/Linux. Ecasound can=20

also be run on many UNIX-derived systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X=20

and Solaris. Limited support for Windows is available through=20

Cygwin. Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control=20

Interface (ECI) is licensed under the LGPL.
3. Changes since last release

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* Ability to specify a custom resource file has been added.

   This allows to use different settings for different sessions,

   without having to modify system wide, nor user's default,

   settings. Additionally, by specifying a null resource file,

   accesses to global and user resource files can be disabled.

   This can be done with the '-R' ecasound option and 'resource-file'

   interactive mode command (see ecasound (1) and ecasoundrc (5) man

   pages).
* License of rubyecasound, Ruby implementaion of the Ecasound

   Control Interface (ECI), has been changed from GPL to LGPL. This

   aligns rubyecasound with other ECI implementations.
* Fixes to many long-standing bugs. See the full change list

   for details.
Full list of changes is available at:

  - http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php
4. Interface and configuration file changes

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None in this release.
5. Contributors to this release

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Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes
   * Martin Michlmayr (1)

       Header inclusion errors reported by GCC 4.3

   * Junichi Uekawa (1)

      Incorrect page numbers in TOC of the programmer's and user's guides
Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed)
   * Joe Planisky (1)

       Bug in time crop gate (-gc).

   * R=E9mi Rouaud (1)

       Parsing bugs triggered by localized LADSPA plugins

   * Aaron Heller and Etienne Deleflie (1)

       Chainsetups with loop devices would run infinitely
Feature suggestions - Ideas that led to new features (items)
   * Klaus Schulz and Keith Creasy (1)

       Ability to specify a custom ecasound resource file
6. Links and files

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Web site (and mirrors):

 =09http://eca.cx (fi)

 =09http://ecasound.seul.org (us)

 =09http://ecasound.sourceforge.net (us)
Source packages:

 =09http://ecasound.seul.org/download

 =09http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.4.6.tar.gz

 =09md5sum: b095cacd668d67438f75ea8336b9eed0
List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support:

 =09See http://eca.cx/ecasound/download.php
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  links, my public keys, etc at http://eca.cx/kv