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SoX --- This file contains information specific to the Win32 version of SoX. Please refer to the README file for general information. The binary SOX.EXE can be installed anywhere you desire. The only restriction is that the included ZLIB1..DLL and LIBGOMP-1.DLL must be located in the same directory as SOX.EXE or somewhere within your PATH. SoX Helper Applications ----------------------- SoX also includes support for SOXI.EXE, PLAY.EXE and REC.EXE and their behaviors are documented in included PDF's. They have the same install restrictions as SOX.EXE. SOXI.EXE, PLAY.EXE, and REC.EXE are not distributed with this package to reduce size requirements. They are, in fact, only copies of the original SOX.EXE binary which changes SOX.EXE's behavior based on the executable's filename. If you wish to make use of these utils then you can create them yourself. copy sox.exe soxi.exe copy sox.exe play.exe copy sox.exe rec.exe If you are concerned with disk space, the play and record functionality can be equated using the "-d" option with SOX.EXE. soxi functionality can be equated using the "--info" option with SOX.EXE. The rough syntax is: play: sox [input files and options] -d [effects] rec: sox -d [output file and options] [effects] soxi: sox --info [input files and options] Acknowledgements ---------------- SOX.EXE included in this package makes use of the following projects. See the cygbuild script included with the source code package for further information on how it was compiled and packaged. SoX - http://sox.sourceforge.net FLAC - http://flac.sourceforge.net LADSPA - http://www.ladspa.org libid3tag - http://www.underbit.com/products/mad libsndfile - http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile Ogg Vorbis - http://www.vorbis.com PNG - http://www.libpng.org/pub/png WavPack - http://www.wavpack.com wget - http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Enjoy, The SoX Development Team Appendix - wget Support ----------------------- SoX can make use of the wget command line utility to load files over the internet. A binary copy of wget has been included with this package of SoX for your convience. For SoX to make use of wget, it must be located either in your PATH or within the same directory that SoX is ran from. Custom configuration of wget can be made by editing the file wget.ini contained in the same directory as wget.exe. Please consult wget's homepage for access to source code as well as further instructions on configuring. http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Appendix - MP3 Support ---------------------- SoX contains support for reading and writing MP3 files but does not ship with the DLL's that perform decoding and encoding of MP3 data because of patent restrictions. For further details, refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues MP3 support can be enabled by placing Lame encoding DLL and/or MAD decoding DLL into the same directory as SOX.EXE. These can be compiled yourself, they may turn up on searches of the internet or may be included with other MP3 applications already installed on your system. For encoding/writing, try searching for lame-enc.dll, libmp3lame-0.dll, libmp3lame.dll, or cygmp3lame-0.dll. For decoding/reading, try searching for libmad-0.dll, libmad.dll or cygmad-0.dll. Instructions are included here for using MSYS to create the DLL's. It is assumed you already have MSYS installed on your system with a working gcc compiler. The commands are ran from MSYS bash shell. Obtain the latest Lame and MAD source code from approprate locations. Lame MP3 encoder http://lame.sourceforge.net MAD MP3 decoder http://www.underbit.com/products/mad cd lame-398-2 ./configure --disabled-static --enable-shared make cp libmp3lame/.libs/libmp3lame-0.dll /path/to/sox MAD libraries up to 0.15.1b have a bug in configure that will not allow building DLL under mingw. This can be resolved by adding LDFLAGS to configure and editing the generated Makefile to remove an invalid option. cd libmad-0.15.1b ./configure --enable-shared --disable-static LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" [edit Makefile, search for "-fforce-mem" and delete it.] make cp libmad-0.dll /path/to/sox/ Appendix - AMR-NB/AMR-WB Support -------------------------------- SoX contains support for reading and writing AMR-NB and AMR-WB files but does not ship with the DLL's that perform decoding and encoding of AMR data because of patent restrictions. AMR-NB/AMR-WB support can be enabled by placing required DLL's into the same directory as SOX.EXE. These can be compiled yourself, they may turn up on searches of the internet or may be included with other MP3 applications already installed on your system. For AMR-NB support, try searching for libamrnb-3.dll, libopencore-amrnb-0.dll, or libopencore-amrnb.dll. For AMR-WB support, try searching for libamrwb-3.dll, libopencore-amrwb-0.dll, or libopencore-amrwb.dll. Instructions are included here for using MSYS to create the DLL's. It is assumed you already have MSYS installed on your system with working gcc compiler. These commands are ran from MSYS bash shell. Obtain the latest amrnb and amrwb source code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr . cd opencore-amr-0.1.2 ./configure --enable-shared --disable-static LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" make cp amrnb/.libs/libopencore-amrnb-0.dll /path/to/sox cp amrwb/.libs/libopencore-amrwb-0.dll /path/to/sox Appendix - LADSPA Plugins ------------------------- SoX has built in support for LADSPA Plugins. These plugins are mostly built for Linux but some are available for Windows. The Audacity GUI application has a page that points to a collection of Windows LADSPA plugins. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/plugins SoX will search for these plugins based on LADSPA_PATH enviornment variable. See sox.txt for further information.