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Install sox on Amazon Linux
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install-sox-amazon-linux.sh
#!/bin/sh
mkdir sox
cd sox
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/14.4.2/sox-14.4.2.tar.gz
tar xvfz sox-14.4.2.tar.gz
cd sox-14.4.2
./configure
make -s
make install
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
sudo ldconfig
@essramos
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run this on my ec2 instance. (Red Hat 7.2.1-2)

then when trying to combine two mp3 files I Get this.

sox FAIL formats: no handler for file extension `mp3'

Any idea?

@dvigneshwer
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@essramos the steps mentioned here worked for me. @chrisjz thanks for creating the gist it's pretty handy.

@ankuj
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ankuj commented Sep 6, 2019

yum install sox also seems to work?

@vijojose40
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You can install

yum install epel-release

Then retry the installation.

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