Yesterday, I tried to send this reply to Jeremy. Google sent me email that looked very much like a bounce notice. But it's in my list of sent mail. If you see this twice, I apologize. On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Glenn English <ghe2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sox users > <jn.ml.sxu.88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The point is, if you post here asking for help with sox, but muddy the issue >> by doing thing through pythin (or any other scripting language) no-one >> trying >> to help you can be CERTAIN that the problem doesn't lie with your script. > > Good point, well taken. I was certain of my script because all the > other sox commands worked just fine. But it surely could have been > something I was doing wrong. > > OTOH, the command worked, in this case, after just replacing 'aiff' with 'flac.' > >> Why not? > > At that point, I'd never heard of soxi. All I had was an edited > explanation of some the sox commands, the ones that were pertinent to > the project at hand. I'd spent quite a while futzing with things and > reading documentation, and was completely at a loss. Sox wasn't acting > like it was said to in the documentation. > > Sox is a very impressive piece of software, and apart from that one > oopsie, which I still don't understand but am very willing to write > around, it's been a delight to work with. > > Actually, replacing the aiff files with flacs has saved me a lot of > disk space :-) I look out for those things because I'm of the > generation where a microsecond was pretty speedy, and a 300 MB disk > was the size of a small refrigerator... -- 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
