Bug 509904

Summary: sox is installed, but not detected
Product: [Applications] k3b Reporter: HPetrus <haigpetrus>
Component: generalAssignee: K3b Bugs <k3b-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: michalm, trueg
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 25.08.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/k3b/-/commit/e15cc00274ea48e84a7448efd968c2cd58961d7f Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description HPetrus 2025-09-25 00:03:43 UTC 
SUMMARY
sox 14.6.0 package is installed and runs in cli, but k3b doesn't detect it no matter the path.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install sox 14.6.0
2. Refresh k3b programs
3. sox (not found)

OBSERVED RESULT
sox not found.

EXPECTED RESULT
sox install bin path should be present
Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2025-09-25 06:11:28 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/k3b/-/merge_requests/89
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2025-11-03 22:14:31 UTC 
Git commit e15cc00274ea48e84a7448efd968c2cd58961d7f by Albert Astals Cid, on behalf of Antonio Rojas.
Committed on 03/11/2025 at 22:14.
Pushed by aacid into branch 'master'.

Support sox-ng in the sox plugin

sox is unmaintained and some distros are switching to the maintained sox-ng fork, make sure k3b works with it

M  +3    -0    plugins/encoder/sox/k3bsoxencoder.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/k3b/-/commit/e15cc00274ea48e84a7448efd968c2cd58961d7f