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sox: Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing

Overview of package

Package: sox
Description: Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing
For more information: https://sox.sourceforge.net
Categories: Utilities
SoftwareDevelopment
License: Unknown

General Usage

SoX is a cross-platform 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 can play and record audio files on most platforms.

This module will add the sox, rec, play commands to your PATH

The following environmental variables have been defined:

  • $SOX_ROOT has been set to the root of the sox installation
  • $SOX_LIBDIR points to the directory containing the libraries
  • $SOX_INCDIR points to the directory containing the header files

You will probably wish to use these by adding the following flags to your compilation command (e.g. to CFLAGS in your Makefile):

  • -I$SOX_INCDIR

and the following flags to your link command (e.g. LDFLAGS in your Makefile):

  • -L$SOX_LIBDIR -Wl,-rpath,$SOX_LIBDIR

Available versions by cluster

This section lists the available versions of the package soxon the UMD HPC clusters.

Versions available on the Zaratan cluster

Version Module tags CPU(s) optimized for GPU ready?
14.4.2 14.4.2 icelake, x86_64, zen2 Yes