Re: Recording specific channels

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(In all seriousness, install OpenBSD on a spare machine
and look into aucat(1). You will love the simplicity.)

On May 13 21:30:44, hans@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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