Sox(Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation) is a strong audio manipulation too in linux. SoX reads and writes audio files in most popular formats and can optionally apply effects to them; it can combine multiple input sources, synthesise audio, and, on many systems, act as a general purpose audio player or a multi-track audio recorder. So it can be told as audio player as well as converter.Till some days before i was searching a linux tool for playing gsm files eventhough i were using sox for sound conversion i didnt noticed that it can play sound files allmost in all format for that we just need to install corresponding codecs .
To install sox
$ sudo apt-get install sox
sox supported formats are
AUDIO FILE FORMATS: 8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb au avi avr caf cdda cdr cvs cvsd dat dvms f4 f8 fap ffmpeg flac fssd gsm hcom htk ima ircam la lpc lpc10 lu m4a mat mat4 mat5 maud mp2 mp3 mp4 mpg nist ogg paf prc pvf raw s1 s2 s3 s4 sb sd2 sds sf sl smp snd sndfile sndr sndt sou sox sph sw txw u1 u2 u3 u4 ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox w64 wav wavpcm wmv wv wve xa xi PLAYLIST FORMATS: m3u pls AUDIO DEVICE DRIVERS: alsa ao oss ossdsp
to get support of all this formats install
$ apt-get install libsox-fmt-all
We can play specified file format using the play command which come along with sox.
Eg:
