[LAU] sox: everything on the internet is wrong

Peder Hedlund peder at musikhuset.org
Fri Feb 26 04:19:52 EST 2010


Quoting Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org>:

> Example: I want to split a stereo JACK-compatible 32-bit float   
> broadcast WAV file into two mono 32-bit float mono WAV files. Ohh   
> kaaay...
>
> Somewhere on the internets, it says to do this:
> sox infile.wav outfile.l.wav remix 1
>
>
> Um, no!
>
> sox soxio: Can't open input file `remix': No such file or directory

FWIW, that command works in openSUSE 11.2 using sox v14.3.0 on a  
standard 44.1kHz/16bit stereo wav.

So either you're using a buggy version, you mistyped the command or  
there's something special with sox and 32bit BCW.

- Peder


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