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Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install sox

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install sox

MacPorts ports tree · audio/sox/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add sox

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · sox · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install sox

Debian stable package indexes · sox · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install sox

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · sox · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#sox

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/so/sox/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S sox

Arch Linux sync databases · sox · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install sox

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · sox · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Scoopverifiziert · 92%

scoop install main/sox

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/sox.json · Quelle: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverifiziert · 92%

winget install --id ChrisBagwell.SoX -e

Windows Package Manager source index · ChrisBagwell.SoX · Quelle: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

SOund eXchange: universal sound sample translator

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

play
rec
sox
soxi

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

SoX, short for Sound eXchange, is a long-running command-line audio conversion and processing suite. It is a classic Unix-style media tool: scriptable, format-oriented, useful in pipelines, and packaged broadly across Unix, Linux, macOS, and Windows package managers.

Projektgeschichte

The official ChangeLog traces SoX back to July 1991 and records release history before and after the 11gamma series. The maintained SourceForge tree includes manuals, release notes, and library documentation for the `sox`, `play`, `rec`, and `soxi` commands.

SoX's manual describes the program as a command-line audio processing tool especially suited to quick edits and batch processing. Its model is intentionally non-graphical: input files, format options, output files, and effects are combined into a shell-friendly processing chain.

Adoptionsgeschichte

SoX persisted because it solved a package-manager-shaped problem: one small CLI could convert, inspect, record, play, synthesize, and batch-process audio without a desktop editor. The input package facts show it packaged by Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, Scoop, winget, and other systems.

The 14.x release history shows active maintenance through the 2000s and 2010s, including format support, effects, libSoX changes, and portability fixes. Its SourceForge project page describes it as the Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utilities.

Wie es verwendet wird

Common usage includes converting file formats, applying effects while converting, mixing or concatenating inputs, recording through `rec`, playing through `play`, and inspecting headers with `soxi`. The man page gives examples such as AU to WAV conversion, rate changes, fades, normalization, synthesis, and multitrack recording.

For package users, SoX is often installed because another script, build, podcast workflow, test fixture, or audio data pipeline needs a dependable `sox` binary rather than an interactive editor.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

SoX is package-nerd infrastructure: tiny enough to script, old enough to be everywhere, and broad enough to replace many one-off audio converters. Its many optional codec and device backends make distro packaging choices visible to users, which is why formula variants and build dependencies matter.

The companion `play`, `rec`, and `soxi` entry points are also packaging-relevant because one installed program exposes several command names. This makes SoX a good example of a CLI package whose symlinks, optional libraries, and man pages are part of the user-facing contract.

Zeitleiste

1991: Official ChangeLog traces project creation to July 1991.
1995: ChangeLog covers history through the sox-11gamma era.
2007: SoX 14.0.0 released.
2012: SoX 14.4.0 released with deprecations, format updates, and effect changes.
2015: SoX 14.4.2 released with Ogg Opus and RF64 WAV read support among other fixes.
2021: Source tree includes maintained manual page updates.

Related projects

libSoX is the library at the heart of SoX, according to the manual.
Audacity is mentioned by the SoX manual as the interactive graphical editor to use when the command-line model is not appropriate.
sox_ng is a later hard fork of SoX 14.4.2.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Installiert mit 8 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit
`play`	cli	globales Executable
`rec`	cli	globales Executable
`sox`	cli	globales Executable
`soxi`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version14.4.2

Manager aktualisiert2026-07-13

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://sox.sourceforge.net/

InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://sox.sourceforge.net/none Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:sox
Version	14.4.2
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sox
Homepage	https://sox.sourceforge.net/
Repository	https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/code
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/code/ci/master/tree/sox.1
Lizenz	GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sox/sox/14.4.2/sox-14.4.2.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-07-13T17:31:46+09:00
Pulse	updated
Abhängigkeiten	flac, lame, libogg, libpng, libsndfile, libvorbis, mad, opusfile
Build-Abhängigkeiten	pkgconf
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	sox
Version Scheme	0
Revision	6
Conflicts With	sox_ng
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

libsox-dev 14.4.2+git20190427-5+b3

Development files for the SoX library