NEWS

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sonicscrewdriver 0.0.7 (2024-05-11)

New functionality

• sweptsine() can generate logarithmic sweeps with mode="log"
• normalise() wrapper to tuneR::normalize() to detect bit depth
• data2Wave() uses new normalise() wrapper

Documentation

• additional examples for sweptsine()

Fixes

• internal function to normalise a spectrum
• better testing of bind.wave parameter to windowing().

sonicscrewdriver 0.0.6 (2024-03-01)

Fixes

• issued identified on Win build
• convert2seconds() where numeric value < 1000 passed as HHMM.

sonicscrewdriver 0.0.5 (2024-02-23)

New functionality

• use BirdNET-Analyzer within R using reticulate
• readAudio() generic function to read audio files
• readAudacityLabels() to read Audacity label files
• citation() information
• angle conversion
• Dolbear's law
• audioblast() - search for recordings and analyses on audioblast.org
• audioblastDownload() - Download files from audioBlast
• allChannels for analysing multi-channel audio
• read Respeaker6 formatted files

New classes

• Annotation class (recording and manipulating annotations)
• PseudoWave class (e.g. apply noise to a file of any length)
• TaggedWaves class (document metadata and processing)
• WaveFilter class (supports applying filters using pipes)

Fixes

• audiomothWave() fix (comments not consistently placed in header)

sonicscrewdriver 0.0.4 (2021-05-02)

• support for reading AudioMoth configuration files
• support for reading AudioMoth metadata in wave files
• audioRead function to convert more audio file types to Wave object
• parseFilename now accepts POSIX timestamp as a format
• provides some typical volumes (in decibels)

sonicscrewdriver 0.0.3 (2020-11-15)

• Jitter and shimmer functions added.