Re: [SoX-users] Mac: Suspend of SoX shell job freezes all Mac sound

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Blouch
Yup, I can reproduce this. First I launch iTunes and start something playing. From the terminal I do ps -A | grep iTunes to get the process ID of iTunes, which is the first number listed. In my case it was 63238. So if I do a kill -s SIGSTOP 63238 not only does iTunes freeze, as expected, b

Re: [SoX-users] Mac: Suspend of SoX shell job freezes all Mac sound

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Blouch
It means that there is a fairly critical bit of the OSX infrastructure that can be taken down by one app acting badly. If your browser crashed you would expect the network connection to still work and if your mail app died while writing something to disk you would expect the disk input output s

Re: [SoX-users] Mac: Suspend of SoX shell job freezes all Mac sound

2011-11-11 Thread Esther
Hi Ray, SoX is a basic cross-platform sound exchange program that works as a command line utility to convert between a wide variety of computer audio files. (At the sourceforge page it bills itself as "the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs.") It can also play and record sounds. I

Re: [SoX-users] Mac: Suspend of SoX shell job freezes all Mac sound

2011-11-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
And the point of all this is? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Nov 11, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Doug Lee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:57:42AM -0600, Chris Bagwell wrote: >>

Re: [SoX-users] Mac: Suspend of SoX shell job freezes all Mac sound

2011-11-11 Thread Doug Lee
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:57:42AM -0600, Chris Bagwell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Doug Lee wrote: > > Not sure if this is a MacOS problem, a SoX problem, or both. > > > > Tested on MacOS SnowLeopard (and Leopard I think, but I'm not sure of > > that) with SoX 14.3.2 as installed vi