On 2016-12-15 16:46, Dr. Mark Bugeja MD wrote: > It seems like what I did didn't work although I'm still waiting for a > reply from my friend. > > I am looking for converters hoping to strike gold but instead I seem > to find myself sinking deeper and deeper in thick mud. > > For instance.... there is this online converter. Ok. Select > bit-resolution, done; sampling rate, done; audio channels, done. > Then... show advanced options, PCM format: and a horrible list with > such things as little-endian and big-endian crops up. What the.......! > What are these? A new race? Aliens from outer space? When a 24-bit sample value is stored in a file, its three bytes can be in one order or the reverse; little-endian / big-endian are names for one or the other option. The thing that's so far stopped me from suggesting revisions of the sox command that creates merged files is that I don't know whether it has to include parameters telling sox what internal format the input file has, as well as which internal format you want the result to be. I'd have hoped sox can id he input format... but if soxi can't discriminate between the two formats of data then maybe sox also cannot. There's also, maybe, a problem if it turns out that only some of your release files are in this funny format. The script that does merging may have to become quite a lot more complicated - it's easy to have it issue one command for 'main' files and another for 'release' files, but complicated if it has to somehow test which format files are in. > http://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-wav If you were going to use an online converter you'd need some sort of script, I expect, to feed thousands of files into it and retrieve the result - it'd be awful doing that manually. I'm not keen on trying to write a script for that if I don't have to. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users
