** Summary changed: - sox fails epically to convert any audio formats + sox: sound conversion from raw is confusing
** Description changed: - sox doesn't work at all - it can not even do simple converstions from raw format to wav; - + Examples found on google how to convert raw to wave, do not work: ra...@limcore:~$ /usr/bin/sox -r 441000 -s foo.raw foo.wav /usr/bin/sox soxio: Failed reading `foo.raw': unknown file type `auto' ra...@limcore:~$ /usr/bin/sox -t raw -r 441000 -s foo.raw foo.wav /usr/bin/sox soxio: Failed reading `foo.raw': unknown file type `raw' - ii sox 14.0.0-5 Swiss army knife of sound processing + What DOES indeed work, is: + sox -r 8k -u -b 8 -c 1 foo.raw out.wav + + Apparently the format of options changed, and the manual is not so clear + about it. + + Solution: + please provide more examples like above into the man page to avoid confusion for simple tasks like converting from RAW to WAV. + + ii sox 14.0.0-5 + Swiss army knife of sound processing -- sox: sound conversion from raw is confusing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307674 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
