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* Replace save/load function with sox effects chain

* Add sox_utils module

* Make init/shutdown thread safe

* Add sox effects implementation

* Add test for sox effects

* Update docstrings and add examples

In #779, we plan to remove `frames_per_chunk` parameter from `save` function, but it will take some time before we can land #779, so we go ahead and remove the parameter first to reduce the conflict caused by interface change.

This is a part of PRs to add new "sox_io" backend. #726 and depends on #718, #728 and #731.

This PR adds `save` function to "sox_io" backend, which can save Tensor to a file with the following audio formats;
 - `wav`
 - `mp3`
 - `flac`
 - `ogg/vorbis`

This is a part of PRs to add new "sox_io" backend. #726 and depends on #718 and #728 .

This PR adds `load` function to "sox_io" backend, which is  tested on the following audio formats;
 - `wav`
 - `mp3`
 - `flac`
 - `ogg/vorbis` *

By default, "sox_io" backend returns Tensor with `float32` dtype and the shape of `[channel, time]`. The samples are normalized to fit in the range of `[-1.0, 1.0]`.

Unlike existing "sox" backend, the new `load` function can handle WAV file natively, when the input format is WAV with integer type, (such as 32-bit signed integer, 16-bit signed integer and 8-bit unsigned integer) by providing `normalize=False`, this function can return integer Tensor, where the samples are expressed within the whole range of the corresponding dtype, that is, `int32` tensor for `32-bit PCM`, `int16` for `16-bit PCM` and `uint8` for `8-bit PCM`. This behavior follows [scipy.io.wavfile.read](https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.io.wavfile.read.html). `normalize` parameter has no effect for other formats and the load function always return normalized value with `float32` Tensor.

__* Note__ The current binary distribution of torchaudio does not contain `ogg/vorbis` and `opus` codecs. To handle these files, one needs to build torchaudio from the source with proper codecs in the system.

__Note 2__ Since this PR, `scipy` becomes required module for running test. 

This is a part of PRs to add new "sox_io" backend #726, and depends on #718.

This PR adds `info` function to "sox_io" backend, which allows users to fetch some metadata of an audio file. 
At this moment, the information retrieved are;

 - Number of samples in the audio file
 - Sampling rate
 - Number of channels