On May 13 17:28:39, D.Cottle@xxxxxxxx wrote: > This one I started then closed the screen share > so there was no other activity. I am not sure what you mean by "the screen share" - do you mean /usr/bin/screen? I doubt it has anything to do with SoX stopping. > It stopped after 5 minutes. > minion-2-recording:~ minion$ ~/sox/rec -V5 -c 8 -b 16 -r 48k /Volumes/CAF3/test77.aif > /Users/minion/sox/rec: SoX v14.4.2 > time: Feb 22 2015 14:58:07 You SoX is nine years old. The first thing to try is to use the current version. How did you install your SoX? Is that a pre-built OSX binary? The last published version of that is indeed 14.4.2 Build and install from https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/code/ci/master/tree/ and see if the problem persists. I vaguely remember there were problems in the past with sox finishing prematurely. > uname: Darwin minion-2-recording 22.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Wed Jul 5 22:17:35 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.141.3~6/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112 x86_64 > compiler: gcc 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.56) Uff. > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG coreaudio: audio device did not accept 2 channels. Use 18 channels instead. > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG coreaudio: audio device did not accept 44100 sample rate. Use 48000 instead. This seems stramge too, as you did not tell sox to use two channels, or to use a 44100 sample rate. > /Users/minion/sox/rec WARN formats: can't set 8 channels; using 18 This is understandable. > Input File : 'default' (coreaudio) > Channels : 18 > Sample Rate : 48000 > Precision : 32-bit > Sample Encoding: 32-bit Signed Integer PCM > Endian Type : little > Reverse Nibbles: no > Reverse Bits : no > > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG aiff: converted 48000 to 100 16 37777777673 37777777600 0 0 0 0 0 0 Looking at the write_ieee_extended() function is src/aif.c, this seems to be some cleverty of saving an integer, viewed as a double, in a buffer of ten chars and storing that instead, reporting the ten bytes as octals: lsx_debug_more("converted %g to %o %o %o %o %o %o %o %o %o %o", It seems that AIF stores the sample rate in this way. Looking around srcc/aiff.c, there are also "Machine-independent I/O routines for IEEE floating-point numbers", (c) Apple 1991. Apparently, SoX needs a maintainer. > Output File : '/Volumes/CAF3/test77.aif' > Channels : 8 > Sample Rate : 48000 > Precision : 16-bit > Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM > Endian Type : big > Reverse Nibbles: no > Reverse Bits : no > Comment : 'Processed by SoX' > > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG effects: sox_add_effect: extending effects table, new size = 8 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 0: > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 0 0.333333 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 8 0.333333 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 16 0.333333 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 1: > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 1 0.333333 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 9 0.333333 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 17 0.333333 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 2: > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 2 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 10 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 3: > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 3 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 11 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 4: > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 4 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 12 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 5: > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 5 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 13 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 6: > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 6 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 14 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 7: > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 7 0.5 > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG remix: 15 0.5 This must be how the 18 input channels contribute to the 8 output channels, in a round-robin fashion, apparently. Which is probably not what you want: 0 to 15 contribute as the two channels into 0-8 each, and then 16 and 17, respectively, are the third contributor to 0 and 1, respectively; the fractions are most probably the relative volumes. This could be another SoX bug, possibly solved during the last nine years :-) > /Users/minion/sox/rec INFO sox: effects chain: input 48000Hz 18 channels (multi) 32 bits unknown length > /Users/minion/sox/rec INFO sox: effects chain: channels 48000Hz 8 channels (multi) 32 bits unknown length > /Users/minion/sox/rec INFO sox: effects chain: dither 48000Hz 8 channels 16 bits unknown length > /Users/minion/sox/rec INFO sox: effects chain: output 48000Hz 8 channels (multi) 16 bits unknown length > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG sox: start-up time = 0.103435 > In:0.00% 00:05:20.42 [00:00:00.00] Out:15.4M [ | ] Clip:0 > Done. Still no idea why Sox stops here. At any rate, try with the recent version. Jan > /Users/minion/sox/rec DBUG aiff: converted 48000 to 100 16 37777777673 37777777600 0 0 0 0 0 0 > minion-2-recording:~ minion$ > 5/13/24, 10:55, "Jan Stary" <hans@xxxxxxxx>: > > On May 13 15:57:43, D.Cottle@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > [* * * * * /Users… ] > > > > This looks promising, and I apologize for my ignorance (I have a bad habit of learning just enough code to do what I need), but it didn’t work for me. > > > > First, just to clarify, my sox folder is in the top level of my users account. I know it should be in the /bin/, but I get a new machine every year and keep forgetting how to move it and get the correct path (~/.bash_profile?) and don’t want to pester our tech staff to do it, so in the command line I just have to type the extra ~/sox/rec. > > The path can be whatever - as long as it is in your $PATH > you can just call 'sox'. You can also specify the PATH at the > beginning you your crontab. (This has nothing to do with sox.) > > > Second, in this example I don’t understand where the file is > > being written to. > > Exactly where the command says: /tmp/file-`date +\%s`.wav > Look under /tmp, see the files named file-whatever. > > > Last, it didn’t create a new file, but just stopped after 1 minute. > > Yes - it creates a new one at the beginning of the next minute. > > Jan > > > PS: Please quote the emails you are replying to properly > and don't top-post. It is customary in tech mailing list > to quote the relevant portion verbatim and comment inline. > Also, please wrap your lines - some pople (me included) > read this in a text terminal. Long lines make it unnecessarily > difficult to quote a bit from one "line" which is in fact > a whole paragraph. > > > > > > > > > 5/13/24, 08:47, "Jan Stary" <hans@xxxxxxxx>: > > > > On May 13 09:26:10, hans@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > > On May 12 22:56:45, D.Cottle@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > If someone needs files from 1:35 to 3:15 we just give them 1 to 4. > > > > They combine them (with no seam at 2pm) [...] We routinely combine files > > > > into larger segments and we need them to be seamless. > > > > > > Ah, right, that's what you mean by "sample perfect". Let's try: > > > > > > $ sox -n sine.wav synth 10 > > > $ sox sine.wav part%n.wav trim 0 5 : newfile : trim 0 5 > > > $ soxi sine.wav part*.wav > > > > > > On my machine, that's 480000 split into 240000 + 240000 exactly > > > when I said 5s out of 10s. > > > > On the contrary, this is not sample perfect: > > a line in my crontab, starting a recording of one minute every minute. > > > > * * * * * /Users/hans/bin/rec -q /tmp/file-`date +\%s`.wav trim 0 00:01:00 > > > > This does indeed record each minute of audio into > > an appropriately named file, but the transition is not seamless > > (as verified by playing a song longer than one minute). > > > > But if you change this to record your "predefined blocks" > > of a couple of hours, then perhaps overlaping a few samples > > will not matter if the seams are at silent times. > > Or you could record whole days, restarting at, say, 3 am. > > > > Jan > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sox-users mailing list > > Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sox-users mailing list > > Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sox-users mailing list > Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users > _______________________________________________ > Sox-users mailing list > Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users
