SoX

Chris Bagwell

Sound eXchange, abbreviated SoX, is a free digital audio editor which is licensed under the GPL and distributed by Chris Bagwell through SourceForge. SoX is written in standard C, with a command-line interface.

Features:

  • Multi-platform (Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac)
  • Reading and writing AU, WAV, AIFF, MP3 (via an external LAME MP3 encoder), Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and other file formats
  • Recording and playing audio (on Unix-like systems)
  • Editing via concatenate, trim, pad, repeat, reverse, volume, fade
  • Processing via chorus, flanger, echo, phaser, compressor, filter (high-pass, low-pass, shelving, etc.)
  • Speed (pitch and tempo), pitch (without tempo), and tempo (without pitch) adjustment
  • Noise removal
  • Simple audio synthesis
  • Multi-file & multi-track mixing
  • Multi-file merging (e.g. 2 mono to 1 stereo)