On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Wedit uses 16 bit signed samples, one or two channels, in memory. So > much of what you need to do is beyond the scope of wedit, I'm afraid. I > have a system with a GB of memory and sometimes run into things I can't > handle too. But most of my work is much less demanding than you > indicated. Got ya. Still, I can see some uses for it in non-huge jobs. > So, if wedit can't handle it, there's always the underlying standard > apps to fall back on. But as you know, when sox works on a huge file > you may as well take a nap until it finishes. If you can put your task > in memory, it is instantaneous. Indeed. Sox won't always work on files that big (I forget its upper limit, but it's somewhere around 2 gig), and I often have to pull files off of DVD in pieces of about 2 hour length, just so sox can handle them. A pita, that, but what'ya gonna do? Yes, I have often had to put a long series of pull, edit with sox, flac encode, rsync jobs in a nice big && sequence in bash, and then go to bed for the evening, so that it could be finished in the morning, and then worry about did I screw up one of the title numbers in all that?:) Sudoing to root's bash, and running with a niceness of -18 can help to speed things along from time to time, if I remember to do it. Luke
