I don't know if what happens is that the header of a sound file has been treated as sound and it is generating the noise. You can cut it out with rezound, for example... GZS Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:08, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > >>Check out ogginfo(1) - it should've come with vorbis-tools and tells you >>all that good stuff: > > > Thanks. That's definitely more interesting. I still don't see what > should cause one to create a huge popping noise when it starts and the > other doesn't. > > My suspicion is that the first one, which pops, is generated from 240bit > audio, whereas I'm thinking that the second is generated from 16-bit > audio, but I don't know that for sure, and ogginfo doesn't seem to tell > me. > > > bash-2.05b$ ogginfo gmc2.ogg > Processing file "gmc2.ogg"... > > New logical stream (#1, serial: 3691a8a7): type vorbis > Vorbis headers parsed for stream 1, information follows... > Version: 0 > Vendor: Xiphophorus libVorbis I 20011231 (1.0 rc3) > Channels: 2 > Rate: 44100 > > Nominal bitrate: 128.031000 kb/s > Upper bitrate not set > Lower bitrate not set > Vorbis stream 1: > Total data length: 4372644 bytes > Playback length: 5m:05s > Average bitrate: 114.389712 kbps > Logical stream 1 ended > bash-2.05b$ > bash-2.05b$ > bash-2.05b$ ogginfo examplesustain.ogg > Processing file "examplesustain.ogg"... > > New logical stream (#1, serial: 6378c0ce): type vorbis > Vorbis headers parsed for stream 1, information follows... > Version: 0 > Vendor: Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20020717 (1.0) > Channels: 2 > Rate: 44100 > > Nominal bitrate: 224.000000 kb/s > Upper bitrate: 256.000000 kb/s > Lower bitrate not set > Vorbis stream 1: > Total data length: 3122631 bytes > Playback length: 2m:08s > Average bitrate: 193.935677 kbps > Logical stream 1 ended > bash-2.05b$ > > > -- This Message is sent from my Red Hat 9.0 Linux server Machine Registration number 205692 at http://counter.li.org/ .-. Gustavo Zamorano S. .-. | Registered Linux user number 320898 .-. | | at http://counter.li.org/ | | | | ___ | | | |/ _ \ ___ Unique Computer Operations, S. A.(UNICOPSA) | /o\_'||.' o `. | \=/ /|| `---' Celular: (507) 672-6487 \ ___// \ \____/ (`__') P.O. Box 872150, Zona 7 ///////\\\\\\\ Panama, Republic of Panama `--.____.--' mailto:gzsuniq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx