SoX 14.4.0 - the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs Options

[ZinCh]

SoX 14.4.0 was released on 4th March, 1 year after previous version.

Links: download / changelog

Highlights include:
- Add floating point encodings in AIFF-C files.
- New upsample, hilbert, and downsample effects.
- Enable --plot on biquad and fir effects.
- Now effects chain can be unlimitted length.
- Improved audio length calculations when using effects.
- New trim effect with enhanced capabilities.
- Improved large file support.
- MP2 write support.

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.

This post has been edited by db1989: Apr 12 2012, 21:47

Reason for edit: moving links so they appear on Portal

[ZinCh]

SoX 14.4.1 was released today, 11 months after previous version.

Links: download / changelog

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sox-14.4.1    20xx-xx-xx
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Newly deprecated features (to be removed in future):

  Deprec-  Feature    [O(ption)]                           Removal
  ated in  [F(ormat)] [E(ffect)]   Replacement             due after
  -------  ----------------------  ----------------------  -------
  14.4.1   OpenMP < 3.0            OpenMP >= 3.0           14.4.1
  14.4.1   F ffmpeg                ffmpeg/avconf via pipe  14.4.1

File formats:

  o Fix pipe file-type detection regression. (robs)
  o MAUD write fixes. [3507927] (Carl Eric Codere and Ulrich Klauer)
  o Fix crash when seeking within a FLAC file. [3476843] (Eric Wong)
  o Fix Ogg Vorbis files with certain numbers of channels being
    truncated. (Ulrich Klauer)
  o Fix reading 64-bit float WAVs. [3481510] (nu774 and Ulrich Klauer)
  o Fix potential buffer overrun when writing FLAC files directly via
    sox_write(). [3474924] (Eric Wong)

Audio device drivers:

  o Check whether pulseaudio is available before choosing it as
    default. (robs)

Effects:

  o Restore 8 seconds default for spectrogram, if the input length is
    not known. (Ulrich Klauer)
  o Set output length for splice to unknown instead of 0. (Ulrich Klauer)
  o Increase maximum width for spectrograms. (Ulrich Klauer)
  o Fix memory leaks in LADSPA effect. (Eric Wong)
  o Fix hang in several effects (rate, tempo, and those based on
    dft_filter) when processing long files. [3592482, 3594822] (MrMod)

Other bug fixes:

  o Fix input length calculation for combine methods other than
    concatenate. (Ulrich Klauer)
  o Fix to configure.ac to work with Autoconf 2.69. [3600293] (cbagwell)

[lvqcl]

Debug info was not stripped from sox.exe

[romor]

I understand why MP3 decoding is left for user to compile, but curious why FLAC isn't supported by default (at least for Windows binary)?
Vorbis is, for example.

[romor]

I downloaded previous SoX version, as I wasn't sure if I build it previously from source or used binary provided, and it seems it was later:



So fellow HA user, before downloading, review that some formats are dropped from latest SoX Windows binary, probably by mistake

[chi]

So fellow HA user, before downloading, review that some formats are dropped from latest SoX Windows binary, probably by mistake

You are right, dropping flac and the formats provided by libsndfile wasn’t intented. We are looking into this, and there may be a new Windows build in a few days’ time.

[ZinCh]

sox-14.4.1a-win32.exe
sox-14.4.1a-win32.zip

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/14.4.1/

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http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message...msg_id=30580178

I've just uploaded sox-14.4.1a-win32 packages to Sourceforge. If I get
some positive feedback on it, I'll make it recommended download version for
Windows platform and delete the original sox-14.4.1-win32 packages.

Chris

[romor]

flac decodes fine, if that's what's expected as positive feedback. Other formats, which seem like libsndfile dependent, aren't reported as supported nor I personally use them.

Switch that's not present in 14.4.1 is "--multi-threaded"