HaroldMills/Vesper: v0.4.9

This release:

• Adds support for recent versions of BirdVoxDetect. Note that BirdVoxDetect itself is no longer included with Vesper. Instead, BirdVoxDetect must be installed separately into its own Conda environment, along with the vesper-birdvox package. There are three advantages to this:

  • Vesper can more readily support new versions of BirdVoxDetect as they appear.
  • The potential for dependency conflicts between Vesper and BirdVoxDetect is eliminated.
  • A single Vesper server can be used with multiple versions of BirdVoxDetect.

  See the Vesper FAQ for how to use BirdVoxDetect with Vesper.

• Adds clip table format presets for use with the File->Export clip metadata to CSV file command. See the presets in the Vesper tutorial for examples. The default table format, the Basic preset of the tutorial, is more generic than the old default, which was specifically for MPG Ranch use. The old default is still available as the MPG Ranch Original preset of the tutorial.

• Adds several new clip measurements and value formatters for use with the File->Export clip metadata to CSV file command. Some of the new measurements and formatters are used by the new default table format.

• Uses Skyfield rather than PyEphem to compute solar event (e.g. sunrise and sunset) times.

• Includes classifications in exported clip audio file names.

• Improves navigation among night clip albums, for example with Go to next date and Go to previous date pulldown items that navigate to adjacent dates while preserving preset changes.

• Provides other UI improvements and bug fixes.

See the Vesper documentation for installation instructions.