Re: concat problem

Yesterday, I tried to send this reply to Jeremy. Google sent me email
that looked very much like a bounce notice. But it's in my list of
sent mail. If you see this twice, I apologize.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Glenn English <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sox users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The point is, if you post here asking for help with sox, but muddy the issue
>> by doing thing through pythin (or any other scripting language) no-one
>> trying
>> to help you can be CERTAIN that the problem doesn't lie with your script.
>
> Good point, well taken. I was certain of my script because all the
> other sox commands worked just fine. But it surely could have been
> something I was doing wrong.
>
> OTOH, the command worked, in this case, after just replacing 'aiff' with 'flac.'
>
>> Why not?
>
> At that point, I'd never heard of soxi. All I had was an edited
> explanation of some the sox commands, the ones that were pertinent to
> the project at hand. I'd spent quite a while futzing with things and
> reading documentation, and was completely at a loss. Sox wasn't acting
> like it was said to in the documentation.
>
> Sox is a very impressive piece of software, and apart from that one
> oopsie, which I still don't understand but am very willing to write
> around, it's been a delight to work with.
>
> Actually, replacing the aiff files with flacs has saved me a lot of
> disk space :-) I look out for those things because I'm of the
> generation where a microsecond was pretty speedy, and a 300 MB disk
> was the size of a small refrigerator...

--
Glenn English

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