Sox is a general purpose sound converter/player/recorder that supports the following formats:

• RAW sound data in various data styles
• RAW textual sound data
• Amiga 8svx files
• Apple/SGI AIFF files
• SUN .au files
• PCM, U-law, A-law, G7xx ADPCM files
• mutant DEC .au files
• NeXT .snd files
• AVR files
• CD-R data (music CD format)
• CVS and VMS files (continous variable slope)
• GSM raw data (with optional library)
• Macintosh HCOM files
• Amiga MAUD files
• IRCAM SoundFile files
• NIST SPHERE files
• Turtle beach SampleVision files
• Soundtool (DOS) files
• Yamaha TX-16W sampler files
• Sound Blaster .VOC files
• Microsoft .WAV files
• PCM, U-law, A-law, MS ADPCM, IMA ADPCM, GSM (optional)
• Psion (palmtop) A-law .WVE files
• Record and Play from OSS or ALSA /dev/dsp and Sun /dev/audio

Over 25 effects can be applied to sound data.

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