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• Modifying dictation service to extract raw microphone audio

  To get the WAV file, some of the ways are using sox and running the command sox -e signed-integer -b 16 -r 16k -c 1 out.raw out.wav, or writing a python script using the wave library. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Wave Cutter and Splicer

  Also sox can be handy for just audio. You can't beat ffmpeg in general, finding the right command options and testing can take time but with any of them it's worth building up your toolkit. Source: about 2 years ago

• Command-line tool for assembling audio clips?

  SoX is great for 99% of command-line audio work. The documentation can be tough to follow (and sometimes just missing or wrong), but once you wrap your head around the syntax and chaining effects together it is impressive what you can do. Source: over 2 years ago

• Any good resample DSP to use for FLAC to Opus?

  To answer your question: https://sox.sourceforge.net/. Source: over 2 years ago

• if you had 30 seconds to say something to the entire world. what would you say?

  For no good reason, this prompted me to attempt to write a function in Bash which takes advantage of SoX to snap recorded audio to a desired length by speeding up or slowing down as needed. Source: over 2 years ago

• I have an 11-channel WAV sample. Is it possible to remove all channels save for the left and right channels without compressing or converting the sample?

  2) For single files it works just fine. If you are familiar with the command line, you may be able to look into SoX to do that on larger quantity of files: Https://sox.sourceforge.net/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is there a such program as a "Batch Audio Normalization Tool?"

  There is a command line utility package called SOX whuch you could use to do this if you're handy at writing simple scripts. Https://sox.sourceforge.net/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Squarp Rample - converting samples

  Here is what I might use in the future for all my sample conversion business: SoX (https://sox.sourceforge.net/). Source: over 2 years ago

• NOAA 18 from Orlando FL of hurricane Ian.

  Yes, a dongle from https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ Then I use gqrx to record the signal. https://gqrx.dk/ and SOX to downsample it https://sox.sourceforge.net/ Then pass it through wxtoimg to get the picture https://www.wraase.de/wxtoimg/. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to slightly raise the volume of several hundred files without having to edit each one of them?

  You could use sox (http://sox.sourceforge.net/), something like. Source: almost 3 years ago

• This may be a dumb question, but how can I change the sample rate of a large amount of .wav files?

  The command-line tool sox can do this. Set up a batch file that feeds each wav file into sox and saves the outputs. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Is it possible to speed up music without changing pitch?

  SoX did that: I do remember tests which were really amazing Http://sox.sourceforge.net/ But it looks stopped now…. Source: almost 3 years ago

• How to detect delay or silence in an audio file?

  There's this question but it only detects the silence at the end and doesn't remove it. My colleague suggested sox but I'm not sure if it's the best tool for the job, moreover, the project died in 2015. Source: almost 3 years ago

• What are some useful cli tools that arent popular?

  Sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing: convert file formats, change sample rate, apply various effects. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Anyone got a way to apply a 64 bit vst effect to thousands of audio files at once?

  Just a thought that I haven't attempted, but you could try writing a script to process your files with SOX. Source: about 3 years ago

• Executing command line programs from within python [duplicate]

  This question already has answers here: How to execute a program or call a system command? (62 answers) Closed last year.I'm building a web application that will is going to manipulate (pad, mix, merge etc) sound files and I've found that sox does exactly what I want. Sox is a linux command line program and I'm feeling a little uncomfortable with having the python web app starting new sox processes on my server on... Source: over 3 years ago

• Help with ruby code

  I put Sox in my PATH yes. http://sox.sourceforge.net/. Source: over 3 years ago

• soundless - Cross-platform audio files optimizer (FFmpeg + SoX)

  A free and cross-platform tool intended for, among others: musicians, which is designed for optimizing (i.e. Reduce the size of) audio files using the algorithms used by the FFmpeg and SoX packages. Source: over 3 years ago

• Hard to find legit flac, probably doing something wrong

  At OP, what jumpfetus said is very much right. I'd figure I'd mention a program that can do what exactly what he said ie Sox http://sox.sourceforge.net/ it can be a bit tricky to use I think but give it a go. Source: over 3 years ago

• I need to combine 2000 .txt files into a Giant Fucking Frankenfile

  With sox (http://sox.sourceforge.net/), to join any number of audio files, you can do:. Source: almost 4 years ago

• trying to increase the volume of large mp3 files

  It takes a bit of figuring out the (many) parameters, but sox is a cross-platform command line utility which does most everything audio. And, as mentioned, ffmpeg can do a lot, too. Source: almost 4 years ago