Re: Fwd: Re: merging mono files

The files have to match in name not size


On 10/12/2016 00:41, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sox users wrote:
> On 2016-12-09 18:58, Dr. Mark Bugeja MD wrote:
>> neither will it preserve pitch information I noticed. :-(
>>
>> Ok.... if I were to carry on with sox, what syntax would I need to use
>> so that all the 61 files in a folder are matched up with the
>> corresponding ones to output files with the same name in a different
>> folder?
>>
>> The files are called by notes on a scale preceded by a number eg
>> 036-C.wav, 037-C#.wav, 038-D.wav, and so on. I therefore need to match
>> the 036-C.wav in the left folder with the 036-C.wav in the right
>> folder.
> Someone will need to give you a small program that can do that.  I'm not
> going to,
> because the language I write my utilities in won't be on your system and
> you'd
> have to install and configure it, and understand what you were doing
> before you
> could move on and actually use it.
>
> But someone established elsewhere in the thread that VBS (I think it
> was) will run
> on your system.  I know nothing about VBS but someone will tell you what
> to do.
>
> Jan Stary has - again - pointed you at some code that would work on a
> Linux system
> but not on Windows.  In essence what it does is
>
>    - makes a list of all the files in (eg a 'left files' folder), whose
> names end in "wav"
>    - then one at a time, work through that list, and:
>        - work out the full name of the corresponding 'right' file
>        - work out the full name of the corresponding stereo file
>        - issue a sox command with all three names in it
>
> As Jan pointed out, a simple loop like this isn't a terribly good idea;
> it's better if
> there are some sanity checks in it as well - making sure that the
> derived 'right' file
> actually exists before you try to use it, make sure that the result file
> doesn't exist,
> stop if the sox command fails...   If it were my code I would probably
> also check that
> the left & right files had the exact same size before they were used.
>
>



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