Re: Help with --combine merge

On Oct 16 13:28:13, [email protected] wrote:
> 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?

But that's not what you are doing:
sox --combine merge *.WAV >> merged.wav


> 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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