putting files together with cat turs out to make a mess...

[l_Kriss]

A little help please..

I decided that I should do a "cat * >> newfile.wav" because I wanted the whole cd in one major file. I didn't have audacity ( wich I think does this job in a more "nicer" way... ) at hand, so I hoped that cat would do the job. And, yes. It worked. The whole file is in about an hour +/-. Mplayer can play the whole file, but xmms and oggenc thinks that the file is 1:30 seconds.

Why? When mplayer sees the whole file, why doesn't xmms and oggenc? Oh well, maybe I will do it in a more "gentle" way next time.

[Dolda2000]

You can't really cat wav files together, since that will create duplicate headers and stuff. MPlayer probably sees it becuase it ignores the header and just uses the file size instead, while xmms and oggenc might actually use the information in the header. Do this instead:

(for file in *; do sox "$file" -t .raw -r 44100 -sw -c 2 -; done) | sox -t .raw -r 44100 -sw -c 2 - -t .wav newfile.wav

I believe that should work better. The files get concatenated in raw format over the pipe and then converted back into wav.

[l_Kriss]

Thanks! You're the man!