Thanks again Jan, here goes, Here is the link to the actual video: http://www.spellingbeewinnars.org/whats-been-happening.mp3 It is in Afrikaans, I am studying this language. Here is the full output: sox -V $(ls | sort -f) conten.wav sox: SoX v14.4.2 sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' Input File : 'out001.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:00:02.28 = 100495 samples = 170.91 CDDA sectors File Size : 402k Bit Rate : 1.41M Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM Endian Type : little Reverse Nibbles: no Reverse Bits : no Input File : 'out002.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:00:02.50 = 110225 samples = 187.457 CDDA sectors File Size : 441k Bit Rate : 1.41M Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM Endian Type : little Reverse Nibbles: no Reverse Bits : no Input File : 'out003.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:00:00.71 = 31431 samples = 53.4541 CDDA sectors File Size : 126k Bit Rate : 1.41M Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM Endian Type : little Reverse Nibbles: no Reverse Bits : no Input File : 'out004.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:00:02.84 = 125268 samples = 213.041 CDDA sectors File Size : 501k Bit Rate : 1.41M Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM Endian Type : little Reverse Nibbles: no Reverse Bits : no Input File : 'out005.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:00:00.50 = 22239 samples = 37.8214 CDDA sectors File Size : 89.0k Bit Rate : 1.41M Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM Endian Type : little Reverse Nibbles: no Reverse Bits : no Input File : 'out006.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:00:08.41 = 371047 samples = 631.032 CDDA sectors File Size : 1.48M Bit Rate : 1.41M Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM Endian Type : little Reverse Nibbles: no Reverse Bits : no Input File : 'out007.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:00:01.89 = 83369 samples = 141.784 CDDA sectors File Size : 334k Bit Rate : 1.41M Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM Endian Type : little Reverse Nibbles: no Reverse Bits : no Input File : 'out008.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:00:00.98 = 43117 samples = 73.3282 CDDA sectors File Size : 173k Bit Rate : 1.41M Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM Endian Type : little Reverse Nibbles: no Reverse Bits : no Output File : 'conten.wav' Channels : 2 Sample Rate : 44100 Precision : 16-bit Duration : 00:00:20.12 = 887191 samples = 1508.83 CDDA sectors Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM Endian Type : little Reverse Nibbles: no Reverse Bits : no Comment : 'Processed by SoX' sox INFO sox: effects chain: input 44100Hz 2 channels sox INFO sox: effects chain: output 44100Hz 2 channels As far as the intentions, I am just hoping to split an audio file on short sentences. I get overwhelmed quite quickly with longer audio. This is the output of the script file: :cat for-jan Script started on 2021-11-01 13:11:41-0400 :sox ../whats-been-happening.mp3 out.wav silence 1 0.5 5% 1 0.5 5% : newfile : restart :sox -V $(ls | sort -f) conten.wav sox: SoX v14.4.2 sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav' sox FAIL formats: can't determine type of file `for-jan' :exit exit Script done on 2021-11-01 13:12:29-0400 Thanks On 2021-11-01 12:43 p.m., Jan Stary wrote: > On Nov 01 11:49:46, patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> sox ../whats-been-happening.mp3 out.wav silence 1 0.5 5% 1 0.5 5% : >> newfile : restart > Run that again with -V and show sox's response, in full. > >> and this was the command to concatenate: >> sox -V $(ls | sort -f) conten.wav >> >> Here is the first printout, there were 8 of them and they were all similar. >> >> """" >> Input File : 'out001.wav' >> Channels : 2 >> Sample Rate : 44100 >> Precision : 16-bit >> Duration : 00:00:02.28 = 100495 samples = 170.91 CDDA sectors > This one, for example, is 2.28 seconds long. > Is that intended? > >> File Size : 402k >> Bit Rate : 1.41M >> Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM >> Endian Type : little >> Reverse Nibbles: no >> Reverse Bits : no >> """ > You are now showing the Output File section, > so we still know nothing. Post the response in full. > Use the script(1) tool if you were unaware of it. > >> I was able to split audio files fine with Audacity and I >> thought that it uses Sox in the background > Audacity and SoX have nothing to do with each other. > >> and that I must have just >> done something dumb but now I am not sure. The resulting concatenated >> audio file from sox is a lot shorter than the files that were inputted. > We still don't know what the files are and what SoX does with them. > If it's not private, please post whats-been-happening.mp3 somewhere. > > Jan > >> On 2021-10-31 8:41 a.m., Jan Stary wrote: >>> On Oct 30 15:21:52, patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> I would like to take 10 minutes of audio and split it on silence into >>>> numerous audio files. I am then hoping to use a "for loop" to repeat >>>> these split sections. >>>> >>>> If the audio was 001.wav 002.wav 003.wav, I want to concatenate ten >>>> 001.wav files together then ten 002.wav files etc. >>>> >>>> I ran this command: >>>> >>>> sox audio.wav out.wav silence 1 0.5 5% 1 0.5 5% : newfile : restart >>>> >>>> It splits fine >>> Meaning, you have out001.wav, out002.wav, etc? >>> Did you actually play them? What does soxi out*wav say? >>> >>>> but if I concatenate the results back together to check >>>> for lost sound, I get about 15 seconds of audio from a 10 minute audio file. >>> What exactly is your "concatenating" command? (Please show sox -V) >>> >>>> Does anyone know why I am losing content? Is there a better set of >>>> command arguments to do this? >>> Hard to say if we don't know what you did and what sox said. >>> >>> Jan _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users
