To get the list of all supported formats, execute sox -h from the command line.

Data encoding – What encoding the data type uses.Data size – The precision the data is stored in.Rate – The sample rate is in samples per second.In general, audio data is described by following four characteristics: Plus lot of advanced sound manipulation features.It is very helpful in the following areas while dealing with audio and music files. SoX is a cross-platform command line audio utility tool that works on Linux, Windows and MacOS. This article is part of the on-going Software for Geeks series.