On 2010/10/29 11:29, Armin Wolfermann wrote:
> * Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> [29.10.2010 11:21]:
> > Looks like a poor man's soxi(1) then, right?
> 
> Among other things. You can also join, split, generate cue files or trim
> silence. I found splitting regardless of format a great convenience.
> 

Ah, I could have used this a week ago, now all I have to do is work out
how to get the embedded cuesheets out of my old .ape files :-)

I would make this small change to DESCR so people can see more clearly
what they need to do if they wish to use various formats, but otherwise
this looks fine to me. Any ok's?


diff -uNp -r shntool.orig/pkg/DESCR shntool/pkg/DESCR
--- shntool.orig/pkg/DESCR      Thu Oct 28 11:09:16 2010
+++ shntool/pkg/DESCR   Fri Oct 29 11:51:04 2010
@@ -4,6 +4,5 @@ that contains WAVE data, compressed or not - provided 
 format module to handle that particular file type.
 
 shntool has native support for .wav files. If you want it to work with
-other lossless audio formats, you must have the appropriate helper
-program installed. See shntool -f for a list of supported formats.
-
+other lossless audio formats, install the appropriate package, e.g. sox,
+flac, mac, wavpack, bonk. See shntool -f for a list of supported formats.


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