Some sox questions.
(I'm running sox 12.17.4 on Debian testing.)
sox -h and the man page suggest mp3 support, but
$ sox foo.wav foo.mp3
sox: Sorry, no MP3 encoding support
produces nothing (actually an empty file), although
$ sox foo1.mp3 foo1.wav
sox: Do not support MPEG audio (layer I, III or III) with 16-bit data.
Forcing to Signed.
produces a wav file. I assume this is because of licensing issues with
the MP3 encoding algorithm, right?
More bizarre, however, is the fact that
$ sox foo1.mp3 foo1.wav
produces a WAV file of a type that XMMS cannot play and cdrecord cannot
use (although the WAV file can be converted by sox into valid files in
other formats such as ogg). Why is this?
Thanks,
Adam
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