sox_ng mit Homebrew, Nix, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• play_ng
• rec_ng
• sox_ng
• soxi_ng

Projektgeschichte

The official README defines `sox_ng` as a hard fork of `sox-14.4.2` aiming to sanitize SoX. It says the project imports, compares, and refines bug fixes and new work from software distributions that package SoX and from forks on GitHub and elsewhere.

The Codeberg repository was created in October 2024. Its README describes a six-monthly cadence for micro and minor releases and explicitly states that a major release with incompatible changes is not planned.

Adoptionsgeschichte

SoX_ng is young compared with SoX, but it is packaged in several channels in the input facts, including Homebrew, Nix, and winget. The README also names Homebrew installation on macOS and winget installation on Windows.

The fork's packaging story is part of its design: by installing as `sox_ng`, `play_ng`, `rec_ng`, `soxi_ng`, `libsox_ng`, and related names, it can coexist with the older SoX package unless configured to replace it.

Wie es verwendet wird

The `sox_ng` command follows the SoX model of reading and writing audio files, applying effects, combining input sources, synthesizing audio, playing, recording, and querying headers. The README documents source builds through `./configure` and `make` and explains optional integration with ffmpeg for additional audio and video formats.

The project documents a replacement mode through `./configure --enable-replace`, but the default package-facing behavior is separate command and library names so users can install both SoX and SoX_ng.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

SoX_ng matters to package nerds because it turns distro-patched audio-tool maintenance into an upstream fork. Its README explicitly frames the project as collecting fixes from many software distributions and forks, which is exactly the kind of long-tail maintenance package maintainers care about.

The coexistence naming scheme also lowers adoption risk: package managers can offer the fork without breaking scripts that depend on classic `sox`, while users who want replacement behavior can opt in at configure time.

Zeitleiste

• 2024: Codeberg repository created.
• 2024: README describes SoX_ng as a hard fork of SoX 14.4.2.
• 2026: SoX_ng 14.8.0 released with new effects, formats, bug fixes, and documentation changes.
• 2026: README schedules regular micro and minor releases.

Related projects

• SoX is the upstream project and command-line model from which SoX_ng forked.
• ffmpeg is documented as an optional runtime dependency for reading additional audio and video formats.
• Homebrew, Nix, and winget are package channels documented in input facts or the official README.

Quellen

• https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/sox_ng/sox_ng
• https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/sox_ng/sox_ng/releases
• https://codeberg.org/sox_ng/sox_ng/src/branch/main/ChangeLog
• https://codeberg.org/sox_ng/sox_ng/src/branch/main/README.md
• source_facts.package-manager