Re: SoX syntax for trim with piped output

Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.sox
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"David H. Durgee via Sox-users" <[email protected]>
writes:

> I am working on an application of SoX that I want to include a trim
> effect but have been unable to figure out the syntax with this case. 
> The command line (in a shell script) without the trim is:
>
> sox "$1" -t wav - -- | aplay
>
> I have tried adding trim $offset offset various places and get errors
> for each, although the errors vary.  What is the appropriate place for
> me to put trim $offset in this command line?  In case it matters this is
> SoX v14.4.1 and it is a binary on a platform for which I cannot provide
> an alternative version.

The trim effect, like any other, goes after the output file.  In your
command above, it should be where the "--" is.

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Måns Rullgård
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