[LAU] sox: everything on the internet is wrong

[lanas]

Le Jeudi, 25 Février 2010 18:51:55 -0800,
Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> a écrit :

> sox infile.wav outfile.l.wav remix 1
> 
> Um, no!

Works fine on Fedora 8 x86_64.

Fedora 8 is a few years old now.

# file test.wav

test.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, 
          Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz

# sox test.wav -c 1 test2.l.wav avg -l

# file test2.l.wav

test2.l.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, 
             Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 44100 Hz

On on mythical Debian system you probably: did not point at the right
repository, or, Debian will add the package in a year or two, when
someone manages to have the time to apply patches to it for
whatsoever reason and come up with a very thoughtful deep chain of
dependencies  :-)))