Re: Sox Truncating MP3

On Jun 09 22:04:06, [email protected] wrote:
> I used Sox to process an MP3 file, but the output file was truncated.
> At first I thought the problem was with the command or options, but
> after removing all options and using Sox just to do a copy, the output
> file was still truncated.
> 
> So I ran the same file through ffmpeg.  It processed the entire file
> even though there was a warning about invalid data found in the input
> file.
> 
> Can I force Sox to finish processing this file without truncating?  If
> not, can I have Sox output a message so I that I know there was a
> problem?  Currently it just fails silently.

Without seeing the command and the original file, I can only guess,
but I have seen this situation when the length header was wrong
in the original MP3 file. I believe SoX stops processing the file
at the given length even though the data continues. This can be
overriden with --ignore-length

	Jan

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