Re: FAIL formats: can't open input pipe : premature EOF

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Bob S <bsabiston@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello,
>
>   I’ve been using sox to assemble soundtracks for short .mp4 files
>   from a library of sound clips.  Yesterday I went through and
>   modified all the clips, amplifying and trimming them with Audacity.
>
> I notice now that some of my clips don’t work anymore with sox.  I get
> a ‘premature EOF’ error and it can’t open the file.
>
> For example, "FAIL formats: can't open input pipe 'yell.wav -r 44100 -p vol 1  speed 0.71818181872368 trim 2.5333333333333 0.012778780478022': premature EOF

This means you gave sox an argument of "|yell.wav ..." telling it to
run that string as a shell command and read audio data from its standard
output.  Since there (probably) is no yell.wav executable, this fails
with the above error message.

You probably meant to write "|sox yell.wav ..."

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