Re: Sox Truncating MP3

On Jun 29 11:59:42, [email protected] wrote:
> Jan Stary <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > 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
> 
> MP3 files don't have a length header, or any other header.

My must have been a different format then; sorry for the confusion.

If your (OP) file (mp3) is not too big or sensitive,
can you put it somewhere for download and show us the command
that truncated it for you?

	Jan


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