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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Wed 03/19/08 3:27 PM , "Josh Glover" jmglov@gmail.com sent:<br>
</span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px;">On 20/03/2008, <a href="mailto:gandalf@sonic.net">gandalf@sonic.net</a> <<a href="mailto:gandalf@sonic.net">gandalf@sonic.net</a>> wrote:
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<span style="color: red;">> I always just use sox from the command line for this sort of thing. It's
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<span style="color: red;">> pretty easy and can do almost anything.
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I don't know about "pretty easy"--the sox manpage is one of those that
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inspired Scott, Jonathan, and I to start writing QnD Guides--but it
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certainly can do almost anything with an audio file.
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sox is an amazing tool once you get used to its somewhat idiosyncratic
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syntax. Toss it in a pipeline with stuff like mpg123 and oggenc, and
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you can have lots of fun. :)
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</blockquote>I know what you mean about the manpage, but it never confounded me for long. One automated task I run now took me a bit to figure out as it's a conversion from a very old Voice Card format to mp3. I'm pretty sure I had to do it as a two or three step process to get it to properly work. Now it's worked fine for two years or so.<br>
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Sox isn't the prettiest thing to use in the world, but when you just want to do something simple or implement it with something else (perhaps automated) it really is nice. <br>
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