Re: Trim WAV file Meta Data

Jeremy Nicoll - ml sox users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.sox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2017-12-06 19:54, david wrote:
> Hello all, love sox and am so glad it's out there.  I'm using SOX to
> verify, convert and "normalfy" audio files coming in from untrusted 
> sources
> (web).  Basically I'm converting source audio to WAV PCM.  Audio files 
> that
> come from sources like Adobe Audition often contain meta data, which 
> just
> renders as ~100ms of noise at the end of the track. I'm wondering if 
> that
> could be trimmed off somehow.
> 
> I've tried a variety of things.  The command I'm using currently:
> 
> sox --ignore-length [infile] -t wavpcm [outfile]

Why are you sure that the audio-length data in the file headers is 
wrong?
You're telling sox to regard everything in the file as sound data.

What does  soxi  say about such files?  Does it identify their contents 
as
having a particular format?


> I tried to attach some files, but they got flagged for moderation 6 
> days
> ago, so I'm resubmitting this.

Upload them somewhere and post a URL.


-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.