From: Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com>
To: sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: concat problem
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:00:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKS_MTsW73LdvfS+2po+WOvRcEzdtnv_HAPBh53BEPxiqz8naQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKS_MTsMDd+_1wt5UJYp0HEDPi8hy1oswUSNNEi=v2i+xMnEMw@mail.gmail.com>
Yesterday, I tried to send this reply to Jeremy. Google sent me email
that looked very much like a bounce notice. But it's in my list of
sent mail. If you see this twice, I apologize.
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sox users
> <jn.ml.sxu.88@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> The point is, if you post here asking for help with sox, but muddy the issue
>> by doing thing through pythin (or any other scripting language) no-one
>> trying
>> to help you can be CERTAIN that the problem doesn't lie with your script.
>
> Good point, well taken. I was certain of my script because all the
> other sox commands worked just fine. But it surely could have been
> something I was doing wrong.
>
> OTOH, the command worked, in this case, after just replacing 'aiff' with 'flac.'
>
>> Why not?
>
> At that point, I'd never heard of soxi. All I had was an edited
> explanation of some the sox commands, the ones that were pertinent to
> the project at hand. I'd spent quite a while futzing with things and
> reading documentation, and was completely at a loss. Sox wasn't acting
> like it was said to in the documentation.
>
> Sox is a very impressive piece of software, and apart from that one
> oopsie, which I still don't understand but am very willing to write
> around, it's been a delight to work with.
>
> Actually, replacing the aiff files with flacs has saved me a lot of
> disk space :-) I look out for those things because I'm of the
> generation where a microsecond was pretty speedy, and a 300 MB disk
> was the size of a small refrigerator...
--
Glenn English
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-28 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-22 16:36 concat problem Glenn English
2017-09-22 17:34 ` Eric Wong
2017-09-22 19:51 ` Glenn English
2017-09-23 12:33 ` Jan Stary
2017-09-23 20:39 ` Eric Wong
2017-09-26 17:24 ` Glenn English
2017-09-27 11:38 ` Jeremy Nicoll - ml sox users
[not found] ` <CAKS_MTsMDd+_1wt5UJYp0HEDPi8hy1oswUSNNEi=v2i+xMnEMw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-09-28 15:00 ` Glenn English [this message]
2017-09-27 14:42 ` Jan Stary
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