Download Sweep 0.5.9

For the people who edit and listen to audio on the Linux platform, the following version of the Sweep program is available. This pushes the version number up to 0.5.9. The following description is given to the program:

Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins.[break]The release notes state the following changes:[/break] Sweep now supports Speex, a special purpose speech codec designed for efficient Voice over IP (VoIP) and file-based compression. Speex is free, open and unpatented; more information is available at http://www.speex.org/.

This release also includes improved handling of the main volume and pitch sliders, contributed by Zenaan Harkness.[break]Here the download mirrors can be found.