Re: Help with --combine merge

On Oct 15 15:27:56, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm trying to combine a large amount of files into one single file and
> wondered if someone could lend a hand. I have individual folders of 90
> 1-minute files in .wav and want to merge them into one 90-channel file.

sox -M *.wav out.wav

> for file in /dir
> do
> sox --combine merge *.WAV >> merged.wav
> done

That doesn't make any sense.

> I'm getting some unexpected behaviour, it creates the file "merged.wav" but
> does not write anything into it. It is the last file in the list where all
> the files are combined, overwriting the contents of that file, as it becomes
> a 89 channel file and not 90.

Of course: sox --combine merge *.WAV
merges all the given files (arguments) into the last argument.