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Title: SoX command line app is the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs
Post by: Software Santa on April 05, 2015, 11:49:57 AM
SoX (command line utility) is the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs.

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Welcome to the home of SoX, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs.

SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.

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SoX downloads for Source code, Win32 binaries in ZIP archive, Win32 Installer, and Mac OS X binaries can be found on Sourceforge's File Release System.
Some third-party pre-built (usually older) versions of SoX are available via the links page.



The current release handles the following audio file formats:

    Raw files in various binary formats
    Raw textual data
    Amiga 8svx files
    Apple/SGI AIFF files
    SUN .au files
        PCM, u-law, A-law
        G7xx ADPCM files (read only)
        mutant DEC .au files
        NeXT .snd files
    AVR files
    CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio format)
    CVS and VMS files (continuous variable slope)
    Grandstream ring-tone files
    GSM files
    HTK files
    LPC-10 files
    Macintosh HCOM files
    Amiga MAUD files
    AMR-WB & AMR-NB (with optional libamrwb & libamrnb libraries)
    MP2/MP3 (with optional libmad, libtwolame and libmp3lame libraries)
    MP4, AAC, AC3, WAVPACK, AMR-NB files (with optional ffmpeg library)
    AVI, WMV, Ogg Theora, MPEG video files (with optional ffmpeg library)

   

    Ogg Vorbis files (with optional Ogg Vorbis libraries)
    FLAC files (with optional libFLAC)
    IRCAM SoundFile files
    NIST SPHERE files
    Turtle beach SampleVision files
    Sounder & Soundtool (DOS) files
    Yamaha TX-16W sampler files
    SoundBlaster .VOC files
    Dialogic/OKI ADPCM files (.VOX)
    Microsoft .WAV files
        PCM, floating point
        u-law, A-law, MS ADPCM, IMA (DMI) ADPCM
        GSM
        RIFX (big endian)
    WavPack files (with optional libwavpack library)
    Psion (palmtop) A-law WVE files and Record voice notes
    Maxis XA Audio files
        EA ADPCM (read support only, for now)
    Pseudo formats that allow direct playing/recording from most audio devices
    The "null" pseudo-file that reads and writes from/to nowhere

The audio effects/tools included in this release are as follows:

    Tone/filter effects
        allpass: RBJ all-pass biquad IIR filter
        bandpass: RBJ band-pass biquad IIR filter
        bandreject: RBJ band-reject biquad IIR filter
        band: SPKit resonator band-pass IIR filter
        bass: Tone control: RBJ shelving biquad IIR filter
        equalizer: RBJ peaking equalisation biquad IIR filter
        firfit+: FFT convolution FIR filter using given freq. response (W.I.P.)
        highpass: High-pass filter: Single pole or RBJ biquad IIR
        hilbert: Hilbert transform filter (90 degrees phase shift)
        lowpass: Low-pass filter: single pole or RBJ biquad IIR
        sinc: Sinc-windowed low/high-pass/band-pass/reject FIR
        treble: Tone control: RBJ shelving biquad IIR filter
    Production effects
        chorus: Make a single instrument sound like many
        delay: Delay one or more channels
        echo: Add an echo
        echos: Add a sequence of echos
        flanger: Stereo flanger
        overdrive: Non-linear distortion
        phaser: Phase shifter
        repeat: Loop the audio a number of times
        reverb: Add reverberation
        reverse: Reverse the audio (to search for Satanic messages ;-)
        tremolo: Sinusoidal volume modulation
    Volume/level effects
        compand: Signal level compression/expansion/limiting
        contrast: Phase contrast volume enhancement
        dcshift: Apply or remove DC offset
        fade: Apply a fade-in and/or fade-out to the audio
        gain: Apply gain or attenuation; normalise/equalise/balance/headroom
        loudness: Gain control with ISO 226 loudness compensation
        mcompand: Multi-band compression/expansion/limiting
        norm: Normalise to 0dB (or other)
        vol: Adjust audio volume
    Editing effects
        pad: Pad (usually) the ends of the audio with silence
        silence: Remove portions of silence from the audio
        splice: Perform the equivalent of a cross-faded tape splice
        trim: Cuts portions out of the audio
        vad: Voice activity detector
    Mixing effects
        channels: Auto mix or duplicate to change number of channels
        divide+: Divide sample values by those in the 1st channel (W.I.P.)
        remix: Produce arbitrarily mixed output channels
        swap: Swap stereo channels
    Pitch/tempo effects
        bend: Bend pitch at given times without changing tempo
        pitch: Adjust pitch (= key) without changing tempo
        speed: Adjust pitch & tempo together
        stretch: Adjust tempo without changing pitch (simple alg.)
        tempo: Adjust tempo without changing pitch (WSOLA alg.)
    Mastering effects
        dither: Add dither noise to increase quantisation SNR
        rate: Change audio sampling rate
    Specialised filters/mixers
        deemph: ISO 908 CD de-emphasis (shelving) IIR filter
        earwax: Process CD audio to best effect for headphone use
        noisered: Filter out noise from the audio
        oops: Out Of Phase Stereo (or `Karaoke') effect
        riaa: RIAA vinyl playback equalisation
    Analysis `effects'
        noiseprof: Produce a DFT profile of the audio (use with noisered)
        spectrogram: graph signal level vs. frequency & time (needs `libpng')
        stat: Enumerate audio peak & RMS levels, approx. freq., etc.
        stats: Multichannel aware `stat'
    Miscellaneous effects
        ladspa: Apply LADSPA plug-in effects e.g. CMT (Computer Music Toolkit)
        synth: Synthesise/modulate audio tones or noise signals
        newfile: Create a new output file when an effects chain ends.
        restart: Restart 1st effects chain when multiple chains exist.
    Low-level signal processing effects
        biquad: 2nd-order IIR filter using externally provided coefficients
        downsample: Reduce sample rate by discarding samples
        fir: FFT convolution FIR filter using externally provided coefficients
        upsample: Increase sample rate by zero stuffing
    + Experimental or incomplete effect; may change in future.

Multiple audio files can be combined (and then further processed with effects) using any one of the following combiner methods:

    concatenate
    mix
    merge: E.g. two mono files to one stereo file
    sequence: For playing multiple audio files/streams


http://sox.sourceforge.net/ (http://sox.sourceforge.net/)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/ (https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/latest/download (https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/latest/download)