On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:48:31 -0700 Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I know that sox can adjust the volume of a sound file and I have > > used it before, but... sox will not read this file. It is an .m4a > > file that someone else recorded and sent to us. Sox and play will > > not read it, the error when try to adjust the volume is: > > > > :~$ sox -v 0.1 Kedushah.m4a Kedushah.mp3 > > sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `Kedushah.mp3': SoX was > > compiled without MP3 encoding support > > The problem is that the mpeg formats are patented. They are not > freely available. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 > > That prevents them from being available in Debian. It doesn't meet > the DFSG. > > If you get the version of sox built with the non-free mp3 libraries > then it should play it. I have not installed it but I believe that > such a version is available from the http://debian-multimedia.org/ > Marillat site. Please be kind to them and use a mirror to keep their > bandwidth use reasonable. Is it really true that mp3 playback, as opposed to encoding, is not available without software from multimedia? I have no repos in my apt.sources except for the official squeeze + backports, and mplayer plays mp3s fine. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120226082311.977c104b.cele...@gmail.com
