Spek 0.6 - Released 2010-07-13
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Spek is an acoustic spectrum analyser written in C and Vala. It uses the GNOME
platform: GLib, GTK+, Cairo and Pango as well as the FFmpeg libraries.

Spek is available on GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

Find out more about Spek on its website: http://www.spek-project.org/

New Features And Enhancements
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Spek 0.6 is part of beta 0.x releases, leading up to a stable 1.0 release
later this year. Check Spek website for the roadmap.

New features since 0.5:

 * Switch from GStreamer to FFmpeg libraries for audio decoding. This
   speeds up the overall analysis by a factor of 1.5 to 2.
 * Decode audio and perform the analysis in separate threads. This makes
   the analysis 1.3~1.8 times faster on multi-core systems (issue 11).
 * Check for a new version once a week and notify when it becomes
   available (issue 27)

Enhancements:

 * Windows installer branding (issue 32)
 * Option to launch Spek when the Windows installer exits

Bugfixes:

 * Fix link activation on Windows (issue 31)
 * Fix ALAC issues on OS X (issue 23)
 * Re-run the analysis only if the window width has been changed
 * Fix opening of files containing Unicode symbols in their name on Windows

Sources / Packages
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 * Spek 0.6 tarball:
   http://spek.googlecode.com/files/spek-0.6.tar.bz2

 * Windows and Mac OS X binaries:
   http://spek.googlecode.com/files/spek-0.6.msi
   http://spek.googlecode.com/files/spek-0.6.zip
   http://spek.googlecode.com/files/spek-0.6.dmg

Dependencies
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 * GTK+ >= 2.18
 * FFmpeg libraries:
   * libavcodec >= 52.56.0 (r22291)
   * libavformat
   * libavutil