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Command-line audio utilities written for humans typing turn out to be ideally shaped for AI agents. Beyond ffmpeg, specialist tools like SoX handle noise profiling and silence detection, while ffmpeg-normalize, rsgain, and loudgain manage loudness normalization—either baking changes into the audio or writing reversible ReplayGain metadata. Add library taggers like beets and agent-first transcription wrappers like trx, and a clear pattern emerges: text streams beat pixel-based GUIs, backed by benchmarks showing how much easier terminals are for models to drive. Key sources: • SoX repo (972 stars, last push 2023-11-24, README on MP3/AMR/LADSPA support). Retrieved 2026-11-14. — https://github.com/chirlu/sox • ffmpeg-normalize repo, README and releases v1.44.0 (2026-11-09), v1.43.1 (2026-11-09), v1.43.0 (2026-10-14). Retrieved 2026-11-14. — https://github.com/slhck/ffmpeg-normalize • rsgain repo, README and releases v3.8 (2026-09-02), v3.7 (2026-03-17), v3.6 (2025-02-08). Retrieved 2026-11-14. — https://github.com/complexlogic/rsgain Episode 6596 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6596 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/943454) Listen on Android: MWP FM Player — myweirdprompts.com/apk