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- From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
- Subject: SOX is irritating -- here's why
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.001617.29608@tdb.uu.se>
- Organization: My own place
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:16:17 GMT
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- [ Article crossposted from alt.binaries.sounds.d ]
- [ Author was Bill Neisius (bill@solaria) ]
- [ Posted on 6 Jan 93 01:58:10 GMT ]
-
- Capt. Sarcastic (kkoller@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- :
- : My $0.02 about SOX.
- :
- : Is DOES do the job, and I DO use it from tiem to time, but about the most
- : annoying "feature" is the auto-detect header stuff. It doesn't auto-detect,
- : but rather INSISTS that you have the filename contain the appropriate
- : extension. For instance, if you have an 8SVX (amiga-style) sample, which
- : is called something like "fire", you have to rename it "fire.8svx" or on
- : an IBM-compatible, "fire.8sv". You still have to REFER to it as "fire.8svx",
- : though. Anyway - the main downfall here is that it pretty much eliminates
- : batch conversion from multiple formats.
-
- Actually, in version 4E of SOX, there is a true auto-handler that works
- regardless of the filename extension. For example:
-
- % sox -V -t auto fire -t voc fire.foobar
- sox: Type AUTO changed to 8svx
- sox: loresng1.iff
- sox: DSS V1.0 (c) CIS, 1991
- sox: Input file: using sample rate 21180
- size bytes, style signed (2's complement), 1 channel
- sox: Output file: using sample rate 21180
- size bytes, style unsigned, 1 channel
-
- ..recognized 'fire' as being 8svx format, and converted it to type voc
- with the extension 'foobar'
-
- Going in the other direction:
-
- % sox -V -t auto fire.foobar -t 8svx fire.yyy
- sox: Type AUTO changed to voc
- sox: Input file: using sample rate 20833
- size bytes, style unsigned, 1 channel
- sox: Output file: using sample rate 20833
- size bytes, style signed (2's complement), 1 channel
-
- Note that this only applies to version 4E... version 5 missed it...
-
-
- Bill Neisius
- bill@solaria.hac.com
-