UPDATE April 19, 2021
So the original post was relevant to Debian Squeeze and Jessie but now that I finally updated to Buster, it is no longer relevant. Just need a single command and mp3 is set to go.
apt-get install libsox-fmt-mp3
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Original post:
So went about getting mp3 support on my soX since it is a "non-free" codec...found
this link...but it was slightly outdated but was corrected in the comments section.
So basically this is putting the steps all in one ;D ...
note: I recommend doing this as root instead of sudo'ing everything...
1: Follow the steps and add the
Debian Multimedia to your apt sources and install everything it says for your distro...in this case Squeeze. I'd get these as well just in case...some might not be needed but these helped me compile it better:
apt-get install libavcodec-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev libdc1394-22-dev libdirac-dev libfaac-dev libfaad-dev libschroedinger-dev liborc-0.4-dev libtheora-dev libx264-dev libxvidcore4-dev
2: Make sure you have sox already installed.
apt-get install sox libmp3lame0 libmp3lame-dev
3:
cd /usr/src
4: get all dependencies.
apt-get build-dep sox
5: get the source file
apt-get source sox
6: (replace 'z' with your version #) extract source file.
dpkg-source -x sox_14.z.z.dsc
7:
cd sox-14.z.z
8: Use vi or whatever editor you wish.
vi debian/rules
9: "DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := --without-lame ..."
change the "without" to "with"
"DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := --with-lame ..."
the "..." won't actually be there...I just didn't want to type out the whole line.
10: Build the package.
dpkg-buildpackage -b
11: go back up a folder
cd .. then install all the shiny new files you just created.
dpkg -i *.deb
12: test er out...just showing "sox -h" won't really work since before I had mp3 support it already showed it in the list. so do a test (e.g
sox -n out.mp3 synth 5 90) if it doesn't complain then [edit] voila [end edit]! you're good to go.
cheers.
