> [about sox] > using the "stat -v" effect only works when doing a conversion and needs > an output file, at least that's what i understood. writing a temporary file > just to find out the peak amplitude seems rather silly if this is indeed necesary, you can always use /dev/null as the output file. it still seems rather silly, but at least you won't need the disk-space for the temporary file, and it will be faster too, writing to the sink instead of to the harddisk. maarten