Re: sox vs libmagic

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Doug Lee <dgl@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:15:43PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
>> Similarly, SoX used to support ffmpeg, thus supporting
>> e.g. m4a audio. Then it was removed, luckily. But sure,
>> somebody must have wanted whan it was added. So what?
>
> Curious why you say "luckily"? I for one miss support for m4a etc. and
> have resorted to writing a little wrapper for SoX that runs ffmpeg as
> input for it so it can apply its effects to m4a, opus, etc. files.

FFmpeg is something of a horror show, and maintaining support for it was
probably a bit of a burden, besides the rather random results it tends
to produce.

-- 
Måns Rullgård

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