Marshall Lake wrote:
On my system I ran "sox -h" to show the supported file formats. mp3 wasn't one of them. However, doing a "man sox" I see:
.mp3 MP3 Compressed Audio MP3 audio files come from the MPEG standards for audio and video compression. They are a lossy compression format that achieves good compression rates with a minimum amount of quality loss. Also see Ogg Vorbis for a similar format. MP3 support in SoX is optional and requires access to either or both the external libmad and libmp3lame libraries. To see if there is support for Mp3 run sox -h and look for it under the list of supported file formats as "mp3".
It is the same here,and as I understand sox is for audio data editing, but when I try to convert mp3 to wav (which is played here), it gives bash # sox High_Hopes.mp3 High_Hopes.wav sox: Failed reading High_Hopes.mp3: Do not understand format type: mp3 also tried bash # sox -t mp3 High_Hopes.mp3 -t wav High_Hopes.wav sox: Unknown input file format for 'Could.mp3': File type 'mp3' is not known Maybe the problem is in libmad and libmp3lame libraries, but YaST gives nothing for both of them. Concluding from the last sentence in man, as there is no mp3 in the list of supported file formats in the sox -h, so there is no mp3 supported. Can't understand what the problem is... -- Sergey Mkrtchyan Scientific Researcher Department of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University Tel: (374-10) 55-43-41 Fax: (374-10) 57-76-89