Re: which is better / more effective

Glenn English <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.sox
Message-ID <CAKS_MTsVAkKtuwYM71XGgk4opQrdSMkih0do763nAM2YfUCZsg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Måns Rullgård <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sox has very limited support for multi-processing built-in, and it
> doesn't work very well.  For a long effects chain, you'll get better
> throughput by piping multiple processes.
>
> If you have a single command like this:
>
>   sox in.flac out.flac effect1 effect2 effect3
>
> it can be split up like this:
>
>   sox in.flac -p effect1 | sox -p -p effect2 | sox -p out.flac effect3
>
> The end result should be exactly the same.
>
> It probably doesn't make sense to put light-weight effects in a separate
> command as the extra inter-process copying could easily negate any
> gains.

Thank you. The pipes seemed the simplest way (the way my program is
being written), but sox is pretty new to me...

--
Glenn English

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