- 48,000 frames per second operation,
- 48k lossless stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound
- Multichannel and multi rate operation on ALSA, PipeWire, PulseAudio, FreeBSD, stdout and unix pipe output backends.
Automatic, flexible and controllable output format (rate, sample format and channel count) selection.
Full FFmpeg integration to support transcoding, resampling, and new audio formats.
Better operation on lower powered devices down to e.g. Raspberry Pi B.
Reduced Docker image sizes with a slimmed-down FFmpeg library.
Enhanced timestamp handling for better synchronization.
Improved the sync error calculation.
A new "vernier" resampling and interpolation method for low-power CPUs.
Bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Note -- there are many breaking changes from previous versions of Shairport Sync!
From mandoc man(1) [-s] section:
1 General commands (tools and utilities).
[...]
7 Miscellaneous information.
From GNU man(1) DESCRIPTION:
1 Executable programs or shell commands
[...]
7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g.
man(7), groff(7)
shairport-sync is an executable, shairport-sync(1) ought to be its
documentation, not merely miscellaneous information.
OpenBSD adjusts this in its audio/shairport-sync port/package ever since.
Previously I have made spelling changes as caught by Debian's lintian
tool, which has a short list of common misspellings that it tests for.
This time I decided to run codespell against the source and fix all the
obvious problems it came up with. It also uses a list of misspellings
but it's much larger than lintian's, but also has some false positives
so I went over the list by hand.
The command I used to do check the source was:
git ls-tree -rz --name-only HEAD | xargs -0 codespell -L minimise,errorstring
Improve support for big-endian CPUs by adding support for explicit -endian formats, i.e. S16_LE, S16_BE, S24_LE, S24_BE, S32_LE, S32_BE.
For the "disable_standby_mode" setting, change "while_active" to "auto".
Adjust configure.ac to detect if xmltoman is available; use that in
man/Makefile.am to rebuild the manpage and HTML file (generated from the
same source) if necessary.