SoX (Sound eXchange)

Overview

Process audio with SoX — the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation. Handles format conversion, effects (reverb, echo, EQ, compression, chorus), mixing/combining tracks, silence trimming, volume normalization, pitch/tempo changes, spectrograms, and batch processing. Lighter than ffmpeg for pure audio work, with a powerful effects chain syntax.

Instructions

Step 1: Installation & Basics

Install:

# Ubuntu/Debian
apt install -y sox libsox-fmt-all

# macOS
brew install sox