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