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Using Linux to manage a large audio collection
Using Linux to manage a large audio collection
Posted Mar 9, 2006 10:23 UTC (Thu) by seyman (subscriber, #1172)Parent article: Using Linux to manage a large audio collection
your author is still searching for a way to join two .wav files into one to fix that problem.
Forgive me if I'm wrong but shouldn't this be as simple as "cat file1.wav file2.wav > total-file.wav"?
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Using Linux to manage a large audio collection
Posted Mar 9, 2006 10:49 UTC (Thu) by HenrikH (guest, #31152) [Link]
If I am not mistaken there is a header in the wav files so you cannot simply cat them together.
Using Linux to manage a large audio collection
Posted Mar 9, 2006 18:41 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link]
You can simply sox them together, though: sox first.wav second.wav both.wav ought to do the trick. (NB. not tried!)
Using Linux to manage a large audio collection
Posted Dec 6, 2006 20:28 UTC (Wed) by cook (editor, #4) [Link]
>You can simply sox them together, though: sox first.wav second.wav both.wav >ought to do the trick. (NB. not tried!)This works with newer versions of sox, thanks for the tip.
Using Linux to manage a large audio collection
Posted Mar 9, 2006 10:51 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
It is not this simple.
Wav files have headers which such things as content type (not necessarily PCM!) bitrate, stereo/mono, and probably length, although I am not certain of this.
If the two wav files were of the same type in every way, and if the RIFF headers that are what makes a wav a wav do not actually indicate content length, you would still get an unpleasant burst of noise in the datastream when transitioning from the first body of data to the second. Additionally, I do not believe there is any mechanism which would guarantee correct byte alignment of the high and low order bytes of the left and right channels.
Using Linux to manage a large audio collection
Posted Mar 9, 2006 11:00 UTC (Thu) by rovfrukt (guest, #6353) [Link]
Open them both in audicity. Copy, paste, save. Might want to use a quick fade in/out or add some silence in between. A 30 second job.