Package: sox
Version: 14.3.1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch upstream
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The following error message is misleading:
%sox -r441000 -s foo.raw foo.wav
sox FAIL formats: bad input format for file `foo.raw': data encoding was not
specified
since the encoding (-s) was actually specified. What's missing is
the sample size, but it took me to RTFS to find out what it wanted.
This works:
%sox -r441000 -s -2 foo.raw foo.wav
The patch below changes the wording to make it clearer.
Also, it fixes a bad line break in the help output, since
"floating-point" is an actual value for the argument.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.2 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages sox depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgomp1 4.7.0-1 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii libgsm1 1.0.13-3 Shared libraries for GSM speech co
ii libltdl7 2.2.6b-2 A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii libmagic1 5.04-5 File type determination library us
ii libopencore-amrnb0 0.1.2-1 Adaptive Multi Rate speech codec -
ii libopencore-amrwb0 0.1.2-1 Adaptive Multi-Rate - Wideband spe
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1+squeeze1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsndfile1 1.0.21-3+squeeze1 Library for reading/writing audio
ii libsox-fmt-alsa 14.3.1-1 SoX alsa format I/O library
ii libsox-fmt-base 14.3.1-1 Minimal set of SoX format librarie
ii libsox1b 14.3.1-1 SoX library of audio effects and p
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
sox recommends no packages.
Versions of packages sox suggests:
pn libsox-fmt-all <none> (no description available)
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--- sox-14.3.1/sox-14.3.1/src/formats.c.orig 2012-06-05 02:52:12.000000000
+0200
+++ sox-14.3.1/sox-14.3.1/src/formats.c 2012-06-05 02:52:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
return SOX_EOF;
}
if (!ft->signal.precision) {
- lsx_fail_errno(ft,SOX_EFMT,"data encoding was not specified");
+ lsx_fail_errno(ft,SOX_EFMT,"data encoding or sample size was not
specified");
return SOX_EOF;
}
return SOX_SUCCESS;
--- sox-14.3.1/sox-14.3.1/src/sox.c.orig 2012-06-05 02:43:31.000000000
+0200
+++ sox-14.3.1/sox-14.3.1/src/sox.c 2012-06-05 02:43:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -1832,8 +1832,9 @@
"-v|--volume FACTOR Input file volume adjustment factor (real number)",
"--ignore-length Ignore input file length given in header; read to
EOF",
"-t|--type FILETYPE File type of audio",
-"-s/-u/-f/-U/-A/-i/-a/-g Encoding
type=signed-integer/unsigned-integer/floating",
-" point/mu-law/a-law/ima-adpcm/ms-adpcm/gsm-full-rate",
+"-s/-u/-f/-U/-A/-i/-a/-g Encoding type=signed-integer/unsigned-integer/",
+" floating-point/mu-law/a-law/ima-adpcm/ms-adpcm/",
+" gsm-full-rate",
"-e|--encoding ENCODING Set encoding (ENCODING in above list)",
"-b|--bits BITS Encoded sample size in bits",
"-1/-2/-3/-4/-8 Encoded sample size in bytes",
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