Re: SoX not handling WAVE file as expected

Måns Rullgård <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:37:57 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.audio.sox
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Lee Jones <[email protected]> writes:

> Okay, I think I've figured it out.
>
> The data size portion of a WAVE file only allows for 4GB samples.
>
> The samples I'm working with are much larger than that.

Then you really shouldn't be using WAV format.

> On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 at 13:45, Lee Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Ah you're right.
>>
>> > 00000000  52 49 46 46 00 00 00 00  57 41 56 45 66 6d 74 20  |RIFF....WAVEfmt |
>>
>> I'll try to hack the file and see what happens.

You could also try using the --ignore-length command line option.

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Måns Rullgård