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Diffstat (limited to 'audio/sox/pkg-descr')
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diff --git a/audio/sox/pkg-descr b/audio/sox/pkg-descr index d0dd386471f..c76071274ee 100644 --- a/audio/sox/pkg-descr +++ b/audio/sox/pkg-descr @@ -1,17 +1,7 @@ -sox translates sound samples between different file formats, -and performs various sound effects. +SoX (also known as Sound eXchange) translates sound samples between +different file formats, and optionally applies various sound effects. +SoX is intended as the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools. +It doesn't do anything very well, but sooner or later it comes in +very handy. -This release understands "raw" files in various binary formats, -raw textual data, -Sound Blaster .VOC files, IRCAM SoundFile files, SUN Sparcstation -.au files, mutant DEC .au files, Apple/SGI AIFF files, -CD-R (music CD format), Macintosh HCOM files, Sounder files, -NeXT .snd files, SUN ADPCM (compressed) .au files, -and Soundtool (DOS) files. - -The sound effects include changing the sample rate, adding echo -delay lines, applying low-, high, and band-pass filtering, -reversing a sample in order to search for Satanic messages, -and the infamous Fender Vibro effect. - -WWW: http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/sox.html +WWW: http://sox.sourceforge.net/ |