Sorry Jan, I am looking after my kids and I rushed the last post. It
bombed and I didn't realize it.

I hope this is okay, I have attached the whole script now.

Thanks

On 2021-11-01 1:15 p.m., Patrick wrote:
> Thanks again Jan, here goes,
>
> Here is the link to the actual video:
> http://www.spellingbeewinnars.org/whats-been-happening.mp3
>
> It is in Afrikaans, I am studying this language.
>
> Here is the full output:
>
> sox -V $(ls | sort -f) conten.wav
> sox:      SoX v14.4.2
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
>
> Input File     : 'out001.wav'
> Channels       : 2
> Sample Rate    : 44100
> Precision      : 16-bit
> Duration       : 00:00:02.28 = 100495 samples = 170.91 CDDA sectors
> File Size      : 402k
> Bit Rate       : 1.41M
> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
> Endian Type    : little
> Reverse Nibbles: no
> Reverse Bits   : no
>
>
> Input File     : 'out002.wav'
> Channels       : 2
> Sample Rate    : 44100
> Precision      : 16-bit
> Duration       : 00:00:02.50 = 110225 samples = 187.457 CDDA sectors
> File Size      : 441k
> Bit Rate       : 1.41M
> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
> Endian Type    : little
> Reverse Nibbles: no
> Reverse Bits   : no
>
>
> Input File     : 'out003.wav'
> Channels       : 2
> Sample Rate    : 44100
> Precision      : 16-bit
> Duration       : 00:00:00.71 = 31431 samples = 53.4541 CDDA sectors
> File Size      : 126k
> Bit Rate       : 1.41M
> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
> Endian Type    : little
> Reverse Nibbles: no
> Reverse Bits   : no
>
>
> Input File     : 'out004.wav'
> Channels       : 2
> Sample Rate    : 44100
> Precision      : 16-bit
> Duration       : 00:00:02.84 = 125268 samples = 213.041 CDDA sectors
> File Size      : 501k
> Bit Rate       : 1.41M
> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
> Endian Type    : little
> Reverse Nibbles: no
> Reverse Bits   : no
>
>
> Input File     : 'out005.wav'
> Channels       : 2
> Sample Rate    : 44100
> Precision      : 16-bit
> Duration       : 00:00:00.50 = 22239 samples = 37.8214 CDDA sectors
> File Size      : 89.0k
> Bit Rate       : 1.41M
> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
> Endian Type    : little
> Reverse Nibbles: no
> Reverse Bits   : no
>
>
> Input File     : 'out006.wav'
> Channels       : 2
> Sample Rate    : 44100
> Precision      : 16-bit
> Duration       : 00:00:08.41 = 371047 samples = 631.032 CDDA sectors
> File Size      : 1.48M
> Bit Rate       : 1.41M
> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
> Endian Type    : little
> Reverse Nibbles: no
> Reverse Bits   : no
>
>
> Input File     : 'out007.wav'
> Channels       : 2
> Sample Rate    : 44100
> Precision      : 16-bit
> Duration       : 00:00:01.89 = 83369 samples = 141.784 CDDA sectors
> File Size      : 334k
> Bit Rate       : 1.41M
> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
> Endian Type    : little
> Reverse Nibbles: no
> Reverse Bits   : no
>
>
> Input File     : 'out008.wav'
> Channels       : 2
> Sample Rate    : 44100
> Precision      : 16-bit
> Duration       : 00:00:00.98 = 43117 samples = 73.3282 CDDA sectors
> File Size      : 173k
> Bit Rate       : 1.41M
> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
> Endian Type    : little
> Reverse Nibbles: no
> Reverse Bits   : no
>
>
> Output File    : 'conten.wav'
> Channels       : 2
> Sample Rate    : 44100
> Precision      : 16-bit
> Duration       : 00:00:20.12 = 887191 samples = 1508.83 CDDA sectors
> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
> Endian Type    : little
> Reverse Nibbles: no
> Reverse Bits   : no
> Comment        : 'Processed by SoX'
>
> sox INFO sox: effects chain: input        44100Hz  2 channels
> sox INFO sox: effects chain: output       44100Hz  2 channels
>
>
> As far as the intentions, I am just hoping to split an audio file on
> short sentences. I get overwhelmed quite quickly with longer audio.
>
>
> This is the output of the script file:
> :cat for-jan
> Script started on 2021-11-01 13:11:41-0400
> :sox ../whats-been-happening.mp3 out.wav silence   1 0.5 5%    1 0.5 5%
> : newfile : restart
> :sox -V $(ls | sort -f) conten.wav
> sox:      SoX v14.4.2
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
> sox FAIL formats: can't determine type of file `for-jan'
> :exit
> exit
>
> Script done on 2021-11-01 13:12:29-0400
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2021-11-01 12:43 p.m., Jan Stary wrote:
>> On Nov 01 11:49:46, patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org wrote:
>>> sox ../whats-been-happening.mp3 out.wav silence   1 0.5 5%    1 0.5 5% :
>>> newfile : restart
>> Run that again with -V and show sox's response, in full.
>>
>>> and this was the command to concatenate:
>>> sox -V $(ls | sort -f) conten.wav
>>>
>>> Here is the first printout, there were 8 of them and they were all similar.
>>>
>>> """"
>>> Input File     : 'out001.wav'
>>> Channels       : 2
>>> Sample Rate    : 44100
>>> Precision      : 16-bit
>>> Duration       : 00:00:02.28 = 100495 samples = 170.91 CDDA sectors
>> This one, for example, is 2.28 seconds long.
>> Is that intended?
>>
>>> File Size      : 402k
>>> Bit Rate       : 1.41M
>>> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
>>> Endian Type    : little
>>> Reverse Nibbles: no
>>> Reverse Bits   : no
>>> """
>> You are now showing the Output File section,
>> so we still know nothing. Post the response in full.
>> Use the script(1) tool if you were unaware of it.
>>
>>> I was able to split audio files fine with Audacity and I
>>> thought that it uses Sox in the background
>> Audacity and SoX have nothing to do with each other.
>>
>>> and that I must have just
>>> done something dumb but now I am not sure. The resulting concatenated
>>> audio file from sox is a lot shorter than the files that were inputted.
>> We still don't know what the files are and what SoX does with them.
>> If it's not private, please post whats-been-happening.mp3 somewhere.
>>
>> 	Jan
>>
>>> On 2021-10-31 8:41 a.m., Jan Stary wrote:
>>>> On Oct 30 15:21:52, patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org wrote:
>>>>> I would like to take 10 minutes of audio and split it on silence into
>>>>> numerous audio files. I am then hoping to use a "for loop" to repeat
>>>>> these split sections.
>>>>>
>>>>> If the audio was 001.wav 002.wav 003.wav, I want to concatenate ten
>>>>> 001.wav files together then ten 002.wav files etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> I ran this command:
>>>>>
>>>>> sox audio.wav out.wav silence   1 0.5 5%    1 0.5 5% : newfile : restart
>>>>>
>>>>> It splits fine
>>>> Meaning, you have out001.wav, out002.wav, etc?
>>>> Did you actually play them? What does soxi out*wav say?
>>>>
>>>>> but if I concatenate the results back together to check
>>>>> for lost sound, I get about 15 seconds of audio from a 10 minute audio file.
>>>> What exactly is your "concatenating" command? (Please show sox -V)
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know why I am losing content? Is there a better set of
>>>>> command arguments to do this?
>>>> Hard to say if we don't know what you did and what sox said.
>>>>
>>>> 	Jan
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sox-users mailing list
> Sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users