A general purpose sound file conversion tool
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, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.
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This package contains the library needed for compiling applications which will use the SoX sound file format converter.