[ sox-Bugs-2790505 ] Misleading help-hint in soxi with MPEG stream in RIFF

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Bugs item #2790505, was opened at 2009-05-12 01:30
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: ^Rooker (the-rooker)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Misleading help-hint in soxi with MPEG stream in RIFF

Initial Comment:
Opening WAV files containing MPEG data (e.g. mp2, mp3) with "soxi" returns the following hint:
"Try overriding the encoding: e.g. for an MP3 WAV, `-t mp3'"

Soxi does not provide the option to override the detected type, so it's impossible to follow the given "hint".

Here is the full output:
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soxi formats: detected file format type `wav'
soxi wav: WAV Chunk bext
soxi wav: WAV Chunk fmt
soxi formats: can't open input file `xxx.wav': Unhandled WAV file encoding (MPEG).
Try overriding the encoding: e.g. for an MP3 WAV, `-t mp3'
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Thanks for your great work!

btw: It would be great if soxi could read these files, but that's a separate feature request, I guess...

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Comment By: bat (bat999)
Date: 2013-02-19 07:39

Message:
Is this bug evident in current version SoX-14.4.1?

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Comment By: robs (robs)
Date: 2009-05-12 10:21

Message:
Well this is a bug, but being able to follow the hint probably wouldn't
help and shouldn't be needed anyway: soxi is basically about reading the
file header, and the fact that libSoX cannot decode the body of these files
shouldn't prevent soxi from doing this.  So probably what is needed is to
move the generation of these errors from the wav.c `start_read' function to
the `read_samples' function (codec not available) and sox.c (hint on what
to do about it).  I'm guessing this will have to wait until after the
upcoming 14.3.0 release.

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