On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can you play the file back with the "play(1)" command in sox on > Jessie? Don't know. The 'big' computer doesn't do sound (yet), so I move the files around on sneaker net. I do know how long that first file is, about 7 seconds. I see what I can do to time it. > Or try converting from AIFF back to mp3, flac, or whatever else > and see if the Mac can play that... I already do that (the big uncompressed file is converted to MP3 as the last step), and the MP3 does the same thing: stops after 7 seconds > Any other players you can try? I don't have much experience > with VLC and have never used a Mac. I could try iTunes... > Any chance you're hitting a file size limit somewhere? I'm not > familiar with AIFF, but FLAC supports large files and is lossless, too; > perhaps try that... Don't think so. I'm working on "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' to be sure I process a lot of MP3s. Yesterday, SoX kept saying it couldn't create a complete AIFF header because the file was too big. So I cut things down until it quit whining. It's still small, and SoX just printed out: -rw-r--r-- 1 ghe ghe 316M Sep 22 13:03 big_file.flac > What's the exact command? ['sox', '--multi-threaded', '--combine', 'concatenate', 'flacs/1-01HornetIntro.flac', 'flacs/1-02Hornet01a.flac', 'flacs/1-03Hornet01b.flac', 'flacs/1-04Hornet01c.flac', 'flacs/1-05Hornet01d.flac', 'flacs/1-06Hornet01e.flac', 'flacs/1-07Hornet02a.flac', 'flacs/1-08Hornet02b.flac', 'flacs/1-09Hornet02c.flac', 'flacs/1-10Hornet02d.flac', 'flacs/1-11Hornet02e.flac', 'flacs/2-01Hornet02f.flac', 'flacs/2-02Hornet03a.flac', 'flacs/2-03Hornet03b.flac', 'flacs/2-04Hornet03c.flac', 'flacs/2-05Hornet03d.flac', 'flacs/2-06Hornet03e.flac', 'flacs/2-07Hornet04a.flac', 'flacs/2-08Hornet04b.flac', 'flacs/2-09Hornet04c.flac', 'flacs/2-10Hornet04d.flac', 'flacs/2-11Hornet04e.flac', 'flacs/2-12Hornet04f.flac', 'big_file.flac'] That's a Python list printed by Python from after I changed to FLAC a few minutes ago -- that's what the 'subprocess' method wants to see. There are no commas in the real thing. I think -- I'm a mild Python noob too, but nothing like I am with SoX. > Can you reproduce the problem with smaller initial AIFF source > files? Like I said, I've tried that. > Instead of using the entire long list of AIFF source files, can > you try only concatenating two of them and see if that's > successful. (And then move onto 3 files, and 4 files, and so > on...) I haven't tried that -- doing it by hand. B (file processing done) ... FLAC works. On the first 2 files, anyway. Both uncompressed and as an MP3. I guess the SoX developers were just kidding about the program working with AIFF. Thanks very much, Eric. You saved me many hours of frustration. -- Glenn English ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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