Re: Help with --combine merge

You are correct.

But I can't understand why

sox -M *.WAV out.wav

would work when

sox --combine merge *.WAV merged.wav

won't?


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On 16/10/2023 12:44, Jan Stary wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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