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Stereo Tool 9.80 and MicroMPX 4.1.0 released

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  • Added Speech detection, part of the Advanced Dynamics license. Can be used to control Natural Dynamics, AGC, Bass EQ, True Bass, Immersive Bass.
  • I/O: Updated I/O library (PortAudio) to nightly build from June 28 2021, which has several bug fixes compared to the 19.7.0 release.
  • I/O: Certain sound cards/Windows versions have issues with block sizes they report they prefer, option added to overrule defaults (in Extreme Tweaker mode).
  • I/O: Wasapi non-exclusive mode now has priority over exclusive mode, because some drivers have problems with exclusive mode (hiccups/gliches).
  • I/O: Increased maximum SFN delay (between 2 MPX outputs in the FM sound card settings; someone needed that to use it for a different goal).
  • AES67: Added x4 upsampling to make 48 kHz AES67 work in STX together with ASIO at 192 kHz. Tested with LiveWire.
  • AES67 now has priority over ASIO in the settings.
  • GUI: Added current PI code to FM info display, so you can see if UECP etc works well.
  • GUI: Simplified CPU presets.
  • GUI: ShoutCast 2 does not fully work (song info doesn't work), so until that is solved, the GUI now clearly says "ShoutCast 1".
  • VST version: Removed deprecated settings warnings. Due to how VST's work we can't reliably detect when this message should be shown.
  • Added internal ASIO glitch counters (not yet exported to GUI).
  • Some small performance optimizations (replaced sqrt(x) by x * 1 / sqrt(x), which is less accurate but faster, among others).
  • Bug fix: Linux Jack version: Fixed crash on startup.
  • Bug fix: External RDS input in Stereo Tool: Fixed drifting pilot on certain inputs.
  • Bug fix: MicroMPX Encoder with external RDS input in Stereo Tool: Fixed pilot frequency issue (it was wildly drifting).
  • Bug fix: Dehummer: Switching to a different sample rate wasn't detected (same data was used to remove noise instead of being disabled).
  • Bug fix: Simple clipper was not disabled in Bypass mode in version 9.70.
  • Bug fix: Web interface: AES67 NIC selection didn't work in web interface due to a bug in pulldown menu's.
  • Bug fix: Web interface: After opening a large number of web interface instances, an error could occur, which could kill the web interface.
  • Bug fix: Webserver: Massive replies (> 262144 bytes) contained extra bytes.
  • Bug fix: True Bass was incorrectly compensating for possible audio levels in subsequent filters; fixed and legacy setting added for existing presets.
  • Bug fix: GUI: Scopes disabled mode wasn't loaded correctly from the ini file.
  • Bug fix: GUI: Multiband compressor agressiveness (via Quick Adjust or via Aggressiveness/multipliers) was not displayed in Max Speed slider values.
  • Bug fix: OS X: I/O: Input didn't work on some sound cards since version 9.70, and microphone access wasn't requested correctly on Catalina and Big Sur.
  • Bug fix: Command line version: Fixed R128 True Peak issue (with certain TP values, it could think that it was done too soon and not clip the peaks at all).
  • Bug fix: Linux version: Affinity masks were ignored (core pulldown did work, mask did not).
  • Bug fix: Generic plugin version: Fixed memory leak.
  • Bug fix: Generic plugin version: Web interfaces didn't work correctly when multiple instances were opened.
  • GUI: Spectrums: Reduced memory usage for 32 bit VST and ARM versions.
  • GUI: Spectrums: Scaled drawing in internal interface.
  • STXtreme: Added AES67 settings.
  • STXtreme: Clicking Thimeo logo takes you to Quick Adjust.
  • STXtreme: Improved error messages for ASIO timing issues (which SHOULD never happen, but now if they do we know why).
  • STXtreme: Fully zooming out on waveforms in web interface caused audio glitches, which in turn triggered the hardware watchdog which caused a reboots.
  • STXtreme: Show RDS data in web interface.
  • STXtreme: HD diversity delay didn't work.
  • STXtreme/SST web interfaces: Support for 4K screens in waveforms, spectrums etc.
  • Generic plugin version with built-in sound card support: Added I/O menu.
  • Updated presets.
  • Added MB Recaster Free to Winamp plugin installer.
  • MicroMPX+ low bitrate and variable bitrate modes added. Lowest supported bitrate is 176 kbit/s. Requires at least version 4.1.0 for both sides to work.
  • MicroMPX Decoder: Bug fix: Forward Error Correction for V4 encoding could in rare cases cause weird sounds to be played when packets were recovered.
  • MicroMPX Encoder: GUI: Added average achieved bitrate display.
  • MicroMPX Decoder: Improved filtering overlap in ARM builds, slightly higher CPU load (relatively 3% higher for Cortex A9, 10% for Raspberry Pi).
  • MicroMPX Decoder: backup player: Improved backup player behavior, it now also kicks in after multiple short drops.
  • MicroMPX Decoder: Bug fix: Dropout silence times were sometimes reported incorrectly.
  • MicroMPX library: umpxGetDecoderStreamVersion missing from library.
  • MicroMPX library: send/receive ancillary data.
  • MicroMPX library: Added dropout reporting function.
  • WatchCat: Added automatic detection of ffmpeg if extracted to C:\, more locations to be added if people request them.
  • WatchCat: Bug fix: Made it impossible to delete or edit built-in presets.
  • Declipper separate program: Works again, ready for a new release.
  • New "Relay" tool, to listen to relay inputs via a sound card and send RDS commands, initial version.

 

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