Questions tagged [sox]
SoX - Sound eXchange is an Open Source command line utility that manipulates audio sound files.
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Have to source file after terminal is open for function to work
I am trying to make a terminal prank that plays noise for every output that happens on the terminal:
exec > >(tee >(while true; do
while IFS= read -r line; do
FREQ=$(echo "$line&...
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Troubles recording a sound using SoX with options - can't encode 0-bit Unknown or not applicable
I recently tried to record a sound using the onboard mic of my Dell Precision 3571 running on Ubuntu 22.04, with the sox command and a precise set of options (default sound card, 2 channels, 192 kHz ...
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Is there a way to make a "sound" surveillance script?
I'm looking a way to built something like a sound surveillance box.
I mean something that records audio/video on sound events captured by microphone.
For example it should record 5 seconds audio/video ...
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How to remove last 4 seconds of MP3 file?
I have a set of MP3 files that I would like to remove the last 4 seconds. I know that if I know the time duration of each file I can do:
ffmpeg -t ${1} -i inputfilename -acodec copy -vcodec copy ...
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How can a spectrogram of a sound be plotted between a defined upper and lower frequency bound?
I would like to plot a spectrogram of a sound between a range of frequencies, specifically from 0 kHz to 2000 Hz. Using SoX (sox sound.wav -n spectrogram -x 1000 -y 800), I have been able to make a ...
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How can I redirect sox messages to null or a log file
I run the following command to capture the output of audio into a file:
$ sox -t pulseaudio alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor -t mp3 test.mp3 silence 1 0.1 3% 1 3.0 3% > /dev/null
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How can I record the audio output using sox?
I want to record the output of Google Text to speech to a mp3 file. I need a command that I can use in Terminal. I read sox can record audio, however don't know how to set up it to record the output ...
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How to convert all mp3 audio in a folder to 8d or 9d audio in ubuntu terminal
In ubuntu terminal, is there any command to make all mp3 in a folder to 8d or 9d audio. Something like ffmpeg or other?
According to mashable,
8D audio is essentially an effect applied to a stereo ...
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Finding a functioning voice changer for Discord on Ubuntu?
I've been trying to find (or make) a voice changer for a project I have with some friends for a tabletop gameover Discord, which includes role-playing. Thing is, I can't find any real-time voice ...
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Can a symbolic link provide default arguments?
I'm playing around with the SoX, an audio conversion program. After installation I notice that it creates a symbolic link /usr/bin/play -> sox. I notice that I can play an audio file with play ...
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CLI line buffer: How to pipe to grep an output stream?
I have this command (for pomodoros):
play -n synth 25:00 pinknoise
I don't want to silent completely the output (-q option), just the header (grep don't work).
Normal output:
File Size: 94.3T
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Convert .gsm to .wav with sox
I'm trying to convert one music files with format .gsm to format .wav. This is how I tried:
for f in *.gsm; do sox $f new/${f%.wav}; done
The result is that I get the same files with the same format ...
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I would like to give the crontab command priority over current audio stream Ubuntu 18.04
The mp3 will automatically run at the specified time using crontab.
*/10 7-21 * * * play /home/mo/document/1.mp3
*/10 7-21 * * * sleep 20;play /home/mo/document/2.mp3
*/10 7-21 * * * sleep 40;play /...
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How do I add mix in audio from one file to a another
I'm trying to add background audio to a primary wav file.
sox -m primary.wav background.wav output.wav
I have about 5s of background chatter in background.wav and I'd like the output to always be ...
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Error Loading SoX
I use a really useful tool called r128gain which performs loudness normalisation on audio files.
Under 17.10, however, I get the following error however...
Failed opening "/home/Downloads/r128gain-1....
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How to find out which songs in a directory are loudest?
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I have about 400 odd songs that I use for background music in my wikipedia audiobooks. I had thought I had normalized them all properly so their volume would not overwhelm the speech, but ...
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How to play sound on our local server through ssh without logging in on that server?
I'm using sox to play a sound on our local server (ubuntu 16.04). I run play myfile.mp3 through ssh.
However, that sound only plays if I'm logged in on that local server. Any idea how to achieve this ...
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Write the dynamic output of terminal into a text file
It comes down to being able to save the dynamic output (I'll explain) of terminal into a text file, but here's what I'm ultimately seeking.
I created a custom command for terminal called playRandom, ...
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How to stop all "play" commands currently running in other shells? [duplicate]
I have a script that invokes the play command when I press f10. I would like to edit that script so if I press it while an audio file is playing, then it kills that first before playing the next file.
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How to prevent wrong audio file tag encoding after using SoX?
SoX changes tags. The title is changed from
4 марта
to
4 маÑÑа.
The SoX command is simple sox f.mp3 f2.mp3.
How to prevent wrong audio file tag encoding after using SoX?
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Is there an easy way to kill a 'play' job (from sox)
I use the play utility from the sox package to generate noise so that sirens won't wake me up at ungodly hours! However play runs like a daemon, meaning that pressing Ctrl+C will not stop it. So I ...
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sox and rec without the mic
I'm trying to record the output of my speakers, but when I do this, it also records from the microphone. I'd like to only record the non-microphone devices.
Trying:
$ (AUDIODEV=hw:0,0; rec test.mp3)...
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Generate the sounds of a babbling brook or a water-fall with SoX?
I got so inspired by this question "Generate White Noice to Calm a Baby", so I was wondering what else i possible to do with SoX...
Is it possible to generate the sound of a babbling brook?
Is it ...
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SoX suggestions - Binaural Beats?
I got so inspired by this question Generate white noise to calm a baby, and was wondering if SoX could be used for generating Binaural Beats.
Basically I'd want to make sounds that are such that ...
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Convert stream video/x-ms-asf to audio and pipe it to stdin of sox
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I'm trying co convert something which seems to appear a video stream (to be precise it's a FM radio streamed to the internet via http://stream.polskieradio.pl/program3) of type video/x-ms-...
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How to record with sox?
I would like to record some text-to-speech. Right now I pipe the audio to play so that it can be played. The command that I use to play the tts is play -q -
I have tried using audio-record and ...
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combine multiple audio files with slience between each audio file in sox
I have about 20 audio files(.wav) in a folder , this is how I combine this wave files
sox *.wav output.wav
I want to add delay or silence between each wave .
I have tried pad , but it's just put ...
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Is there a way with sox to trim parts of audio file with volume under a certain level?
I have an audio file and I want to delete the parts of this audio file that have less than a certain level of volume. Is that possible with sox?
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Cross fading several audio files using sox
I'm trying to cross-fade several audio files together with a 3 second cross-fade and join them together in to one file with sox.
I can join several files together by the command below but not sure ...
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output SoX synthesized sound to file
I have the following SoX command that generates a nifty 'spacecraft' sound:
play -n -c1 synth whitenoise band -n 100 20 band -n 50 20 gain +25 fade h 1 864000 1
How could I output about 10 seconds ...
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Command substitiution problem, confused
I am trying to have sox play a file from user input. To do this, I set up a command like the one below:
$ play proc/$(read -n 1).wav
I have files 0.wav through 9.wav located in the directory proc. I ...
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How to convert .aif audio files to mp3?
I have audio files with .aif extensions (AIFF/Amiga/Mac audio). How to play them and, more important: how to convert them to mp3 or other more common audio format?
update: trying to run a command ...
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Batch split large FLACs to mp3 using sox or similar
I have about 50x 1 hour long flac files (audiobooks), each of which I need to encode into (approx.) 10 minute long segments at a convenient silence point (+ or - 30 seconds either side of 10 minutes). ...
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How can I play a song in the background via my command line?
I have installed play :
sudo apt-get install sox libsox-fmt-mp3
I can now play my audio files like this :
play Desktop/SONGS/01\ -\ Oh\ Baby\ Girl.mp3
Since I'm learning shell, I wish I could do ...
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Injecting packages installed from source into apt/synaptic
Example:
I build/install SoX myself, as provided Ubuntu package did not include additional audio format libraries that I might use and it's one of the packages I want latest version anyway.
Now I ...
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