Re: specifying format of RAW files

Måns Rullgård <[email protected]> writes:

> Jan Stary <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> When playing RAW audio files, the specified format seems to
>> only take effect for the first file. Subsequent files fail
>> to play because of unspecified rate etc.
>>
>> $ play -c 1 -r 48000 -e float -b 32 pcm1.raw	# OK
>> $ play -c 1 -r 48000 -e float -b 32 pcm2.raw	# OK
>> $ play -c 1 -r 48000 -e float -b 32 pcm*.raw
>>   play FAIL formats: bad input format for file `pcm2.raw':
>>   sampling rate was not specified
>>
>> Is this intended, or should the specified format be used
>> for the subsequent files as well?
>
> This is intentional.  Format options apply to the following file only.
> Having them apply to a sequence of raw files could of course be useful,
> but I'm afraid this would require quite some work.  Remember that these
> same options will also override parameters in the file headers.

Oh, and something like this should work in your case:

$ play $(printf '-c 1 -r 48000 -e float -b 32 %s ' pcm*.raw)

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Måns Rullgård

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