Yes, SourceForge Is One of the Bad Download Websites If you absolutely have to download something from SourceForge, be extra careful. Many open-source projects now host their installers elsewhere, and the versions on SourceForge may include junkware.
Since 2013, SourceForge has been bundling junkware along with their installers - sometimes without a developer’s permission.ĭon’t download software from SourceForge if you can help it. “SourceForge are (sic) abusing the trust that we and our users had put into their service in the past,” according to the GIMP project. SourceForge isn’t behaving badly anymore.
We’re leaving the rest of this article here for historical reference, but our criticism is outdated. SourceForge was sold to a new company that immediately stopped the DevShare program in 2016. Creating a SourceForge ID takes only a few seconds-click on the Paypal logo below to make a donation.This article had the headline “ Warning: Don’t Download Software From SourceForge If You Can Help It” when we published it back in 2015. We can accept PayPal donations through the SourceForge donation system, although currently a SourceForge login ID (or an openID), is required. If you find SoX to be useful, please consider supporting the project with a donation. To see the complete set of SoX documentation, click here. The screen-shot to the right shows an example of SoX first being used to process some audio, then being used to play some audio files.įor the list of all file formats, device drivers, and effects supported in the latest release, click here.
It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms. SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. Welcome to the home of SoX, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs.
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