SHNTool is a utility for manipulating lossless audio in a variety of formats; the latest release, 1.2.0-rc2 is now available for testing.

Here is a list of recent updates/changes:

version 1.2.0-rc2 (2002-10-31)
+ overall compression ratio shown in len mode if all input files are compressed
+ fixed bug in fix mode that caused shntool to hang in rare instances
+ added support for ofr (OptimFROG) and lpac file formats

version 1.2.0-rc1 (2002-09-12)
+ added support for aiff, flac and ape file formats; dropped kexis support
(aiff format supports only AIFF and uncompressed AIFF-C, not compressed AIFF-C)
+ added new mode 'conv' (converts files from one format to another)
+ improved functionality in cmp mode (new -s, -l and -f options)
+ join mode can now write to stdout (only with 'wav' output format)
+ shntool now waits for child processes (prevents shorten 3.4/md5sum race condition)
+ fixed bug in join mode that caused output file to have incorrect data size
when the data was not sector-aligned, and -nopad was specified
+ some debugging output now shown if SHNTOOL_DEBUG environment variable is set
(currently limited to the status of child processes - useful if shntool is hanging)

- M.