[LAU] normalize from command line

[Ken Restivo]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 03:36:05PM +0200, Peder Hedlund wrote:
> Quoting Renato <rennabh at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:21:50 -0700
>> Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
>
>>> for i in `ls *wav`; do
>>> 	FOO=`sox $i -e stat -v 2>&1`
>>> 	BN=`basename $i .wav`
>>> 	echo "norming $i with factor $FOO ..."
>>> 	sox -v $FOO $i -t wav ${BN}.norm.wav
>>> done
>>>
>>
>> mmh, getting this error:
>>
>> norming scrivania_varie.wav with factor sox FAIL sox: --encoding:   
>> `stat' is not one of: signed-integer, unsigned-integer,   
>> floating-point, ms-adpcm, ima-adpcm, oki-adpcm, gsm-full-rate,  u-law, 
>> mu-law, a-law. ...
>> sox FAIL sox: Volume value `sox' is not a number
>
>
> Try changing the -e to -n on the FOO line.
> I guess they replaced "empty" with "null".
>

Makes sense to me. I have 14.0.1-2+b1 here, it works, and the man page says:

      -e     This is an alias of -n and is retained for backwards
	  		compatibility only.

I guess they dropped that backwards compatibility later on.

-ken