SoX 14.5.0

SoX reads and writes audio files in most popular formats and can optionally apply effects to them. It can combine multiple input sources, synthesize audio, and, on many systems, act as a general purpose audio player or a multi-track audio recorder.

Tags audio dsp command-line
License GNU GPL
State mature

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14.5.007 Dec 2024 12:10 minor feature: New features: o Add effect speexdsp with automatic gain control and noise reduction o Auto-detect MP3 files o If ./configured --with-ffmpeg and ffmpeg is installed, autoread formats: 3g2, 3gp, aac, ac3, adts, adx, ape, apm, aptx, argo_asf, asf, ast, avi, dfpwm, dts, dvd, eac3, f4v, flv, gxf, ism, kvag, m4a, m4v, mkv, mlp, mp4, mpeg, mpegts, mxf, nut, oga (Ogg with FLAC data), ra, rm, rso, sbc, smjpeg, spdif, speex, svcd, tta, vag, vcd, vob, webm, wma, wsaud, wtv and yet more with -t ffmpeg o Add "stat -a" to give the average power spectrum o Add "spectrogram -n" flag to normalize its brightness o Add "spectrogram -L" flag to give a logarithmic frequency axis o Add "spectrogram -R" flag to specify the frequency range o Raise spectrogram's height limit from 8193 to 200000 pixels o Lower the minimum speed of the flanger effect from 0.1 to 0.01 Hz o Make combine effects work when there's a single file o riaa: Add 192kHz sample rate o sphere format: Support ALAW encoding o SD2 format: Support resource forks o ID3 tags: Support unicode when writing o WAV files: Read when the number of valid bits is less that the sample size o Use posix_fadvise to increase readahead and double its speed o Use FFTW to make non-2 n-size spectrograms a hundred times faster o Resize Linux pipe buffers to make multi-threaded effects 10-80 faster o Reduce sox -t pulseaudio -- input- buffer latency from up to 2 secs to low o Enable building to fetch URLs with curl instead of wget o Be able to read files that are still being written by another process o Make "make check" run the regression test suite o Drop sox_version_info_t's "time" element to get reproducible builds o Remove the undocumented and useless "divide" effect o Enhance ./configure --enable-stack-protector with =strong and =all and, with no --(en dis)able-stack-protector option, pick the best available and 10 more bug fixes.
14.4.302 Sep 2024 22:38 major bugfix: New features: o There is a new regression test suite, primarily against the CVEs Bug fixes: o For CVE-2017-11332, CVE-2017-11333, CVE-2017-11358, CVE-2017-11359, CVE-2017-15370, CVE-2017-15371, CVE-2017-15372, CVE-2017-15642, CVE-2017-18189, CVE-2019-1010004, CVE-2019-13590, CVE-2019-8354, CVE-2019-8355, CVE-2019-8356, CVE-2019-8357, CVE-2021-23159, CVE-2021-23172, CVE-2021-23210, CVE-2021-33844, CVE-2021-3643, CVE-2021-40426, CVE-2022-31650, CVE-2022-31651, CVE-2023-26590, CVE-2023-32627, CVE-2023-34318, CVE-2023-34432, o spectrogram segfault when width exceeds number of samples o segmentation fault in rate.c o floating point exception in startwrite() o wavpack check errors o writing hcom files on bigendian systems O Fixes for memory leaks and a double free()s o It now compiles under C99 and on AIX o Support for uClibc and builds with other non-glibc C libraries o Various build system fixes from the software distributions j o Spelling errors are fixed o It now builds on AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris o Almost all compiler warnings are fixed Copyright: o Uncopyrighted files have been attributed o Copyrighted files with no license now have licences o Multiple copyright notices in single files have been harmonized o The lpc10 module was of dubious copyright and is now 3-clause BSD o The libgsm module was missing its copyright notice o There was an erroneous address for the FSF o The copyright of opus.c is GPLv2-only because it's based on oggenc.c o Therefore the overall copyright of sox_ng and libsox_ng is GPLv2