[NBLUG/talk] [tlug] Audio editing software

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Thu Mar 20 01:20:03 PDT 2008


Oppps. I'm a moron, wrong list. Watashi wa baka desu. Gomen nasaii.

gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
>  On Wed 03/19/08  3:27 PM , "Josh Glover" jmglov at gmail.com sent:
>  On 20/03/2008, gandalf at sonic.net [1]  wrote: 
>  >  I always just use sox from the command line for this sort of
> thing. It's 
>  > pretty easy and can do almost anything. 
>  I don't know about "pretty easy"--the sox manpage is one of those
> that 
>  inspired Scott, Jonathan, and I to start writing QnD Guides--but it 
>  certainly can do almost anything with an audio file. 
>  sox is an amazing tool once you get used to its somewhat
> idiosyncratic 
>  syntax. Toss it in a pipeline with stuff like mpg123 and oggenc, and
> 
>  you can have lots of fun. :) 
>  I know what you mean about the manpage, but it never confounded me
> for long. One automated task I run now took me a bit to figure out as
> it's a conversion from a very old Voice Card format to mp3. I'm pretty
> sure I had to do it as a two or three step process to get it to
> properly work. Now it's worked fine for two years or so.
>  Sox isn't the prettiest thing to use in the world, but when you just
> want to do something simple or implement it with something else
> (perhaps automated) it really is nice. 
> 
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