Greg - Do not use redirection. instead, use the "-o filename.wav" switch to create your output file. The following will work for you: timidity -Ow -o output.wav input.mid HTH - Chuck On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi alll, > > I have read the timidity man page over and over again, and am becomming frustrated. > I'm trying to convert a midi file to a wave file. > According to the man page, I do the following: > > timidity -Ow file.mid >file.wav > > When I try to play the resulting wave file, sox tells me that the file doesn't have a riff header. > > Could someone please give me the correct commandline input so that I could convert this midi file to wave? Thanks in advance for any help. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (60% of Full)