sox

Description:The swiss army knife of sound processing programs
License: LGPL-2.1
Homepage:https://sox.sourceforge.net
Location:Portage
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  • + - stable
  • ~ - unstable
  • M - hardmask
alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86
14.4.2_p20210509-r2 ~ + + ~ ~ - ~ + + - - + +

USE flags

  • alsa - Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
  • amr - Enables Adaptive Multi-Rate Audio support
  • ao - Use libao audio output library for sound playback
  • encode - Add support for encoding of audio or video files
  • flac - Add support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
  • id3tag - Enables ID3 tagging with id3tag library
  • ladspa - Enable the ability to support ladspa plugins
  • mad - Add support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend)
  • magic - Add support for file type detection via magic bytes (usually via libmagic from sys-apps/file)
  • ogg - Add support for the Ogg container format (commonly used by Vorbis, Theora and flac)
  • openmp - Build support for the OpenMP (support parallel computing), requires >=sys-devel/gcc-4.2 built with USE="openmp"
  • opus - Enable Opus audio codec support
  • oss - Add support for OSS (Open Sound System)
  • png - Add support for libpng (PNG images)
  • pulseaudio - Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire)
  • sndfile - Add support for libsndfile
  • sndio - Enable support for sndio
  • static-libs - Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well
  • twolame - Enables twolame support (MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder)
  • wavpack - Add support for wavpack audio compression tools

Security Advisory

Date Severity Title
over 5 years normal SoX: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 7 years normal SoX: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
over 19 years normal SoX: Multiple buffer overflows

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