macOS comes with curl(1) natively, while wget needs to be installed as a third party package.
It would be useful to detect the presence of curl on macOS while configuring,
so that a curl(1) call can then be used in xfopen() instead of a wget(1) call.
Fixed in sox_ng by "./configure --with-curl"
https://codeberg.org/sox_ng/sox_ng/issues/112
Will be released 18 November 2024