Re: Some sox questions.
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:40, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:23:03AM +0000, Adam Funk said
>> (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?
>
> Yes, Debian contains no mp3 encoding code. You can get packages of
So how is it that the Debian-packaged normalize works on MP3s? It must
encode as well as decode them since it modifies the MP3 file.
(Curiously, it doesn't support Ogg-Vorbis!)
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