Soundcard

- 2022-06-28 improves response to Pulseaudio runtime failures
(Thank you, Will Stott!)
- 2022-08-15 fixes multi-byte sound card names on macOS
(Thank you, KoharuYuzuki!)
- 2022-10-05 improves response to Windows buffer underruns
- 2023-02-27 improves behavior when playing nothing on Windows
- 2024-03-21 implements named channel map elements on Linux
(Thank you, szlop!)
- 2024-03-19 fixes empty soundcard list on macOS
(Thank you, Patrice Brend'amour!)

And some README improvements (Thank you, Alfonso Villalobos, Joerg Bitzer!) and minor bugfixes (Thank you, Alucard!)

- 2021-11-24 adds compatibility with NixOS library naming
(Thank you, shithead!)
- 2021-12-23 fixes deprecation for Python 3.10
(Thank you, Nekyo!)
- 2022-04-29 fixes deprecation in recent Numpy

- 2020-07-22 fixes freezing bug on Linux during startup
(Thank you, zhujisheng!)
- 2020-08-01 improves error reporting on Linux
(Thank you, Rik van Riel!)
- 2020-08-13 fixes crash due to use-after-free on Linux
(Thank you, Rik van Riel!)
- 2021-01-13 fixes unicode error on Windows
(Thank you, paulzzh!)

- 2018-11-28 adds Sphinx/Readthedocs documentation
- 2019-03-25 adds support for Python 3.5
(Thank you, Daniel R. Kumor!)
- 2019-04-29 adds experimental support for exclusive mode on Windows
- 2019-05-13 fixes sample rate conversion on macOS
- 2019-05-15 fixes silence recording on macOS
- 2019-06-11 fixes exception when monitoring default device on Linux
(Thank you, Inti Pelupessy!)
- 2019-06-18 fixes crash when opening many streams on Linux
- 2019-08-23 fixes attribute error when accessing stream state on Linux
(Thank you, Davíð Sindri Pétursson!)
- 2019-10-08 fixes inconsistent dtypes when recording on Linux
- 2020-01-06 fixes silent recordings on Windows
- 2020-04-28 get and set the pulseaudio program name on Linux
(Thank you, Philipp A.!)
- 2020-05-14 fixes error with unicode soundcard names on Windows
(Thank you, BAKEZQ!)
- 2020-05-18 adds support for pyinstaller (v4)
(Thank you, Bob Thomas!)
- 2020-05-19 adds compatibility with Windows 7
(Thank you, demberto!)

- 2018-09-22 adds loopback support on Windows
(thank you, Jan Leskovec!)
- 2018-09-23 renames `exclude_monitors` to `include_loopback`
(thank you, Jan Leskovec!)
- 2018-10-07 adds workaround if COM was already initialized on Windows
(thank you, Sebastian Michel!)
- 2018-10-16 fixes blockless recording on Linux