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Thursday, November 5, 2015

How to Install SoX 14.4.1 (Audio Processing Tool) via PPA on Ubuntu & Linux Mint

How to Install SoX 14.4.1 (Audio Processing Tool) via PPA on Ubuntu & Mint

SoX is a command-line audio processing utility which reads and writes audio files in most popular formats and can optionally apply effects to them. It can combine multiple input sources, synthesise audio and many systems, act as a general purpose audio player or multi-track audio recorder. Also, review other Software News to know what's happening in software world ?

This tool is particularly suited to making quick, simple edits and to batch processing. The heart of SoX is a library called libSoX. It can work with 'self-describing' and 'raw' audio files. There are several mechanisms available for SoX to use to determine or set the format characteristics of an audio file.

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install SoX 14.4.1 using PPA on Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint 17 and other PPA based derivatives.

Step Wise Installation of SoX 14.4.1 using PPA on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint & Other PPA based Linux Distros

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for SOX 14.4.1 on your PPA based Linux Distros.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skellat/flow1
Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for SOX 14.4.1 on your PPA based Linux Distros.
$ sudo apt-get update
Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest stable SOX 14.4.1 on your PPA based Linux Distros.
$ sudo apt-get install sox libsox-fmt-all
After installation, you can easily process any audio file on your machine because it now support almost every available audio formats.

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