History - The Beginning of Son of SoX

SoX has been been around since at least 1992 when it was first created by Lance Norskog. Lance designed the core of SoX which is designed so that others can develop separate modules that know how to convert to and from a given format. The core of SoX can then convert any file format that has a module in to any other format that has a module. People from around the net have contributed modules for most of the popular formats in use today.

In 1995, Lance made his last offical release of SoX. Around that time span, I (Chris Bagwell), decided to start making various bug fixes to SoX as well as add support for playing and recording under Linux and Sun computers. In 1996 I decided to start making my own releases of SoX containing my patches as well as those circulating around the net.