On Dec 17, 2009, at 19:00, Ron Decline wrote: > On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:50 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Ron Decline <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to switch the Left / Right channel when encoding >>> in FLAC? >>> (I have some flac files with incorrect left/right channel >>> assignment that I would like to re-encode with flac) >>> _____________________________ >> >> I'm not sure flac can do that but sox and audacity both easily can > > SoX looks promising (and looks like a program that I may have other > uses for) > Looks like "swap" is the command I need, but if I enter "sox > file1.flac file2.flac swap" I > get an error: sox FAIL formats: no handler for detected file type > `flac' > (I'm on OS X and I have libFLAC installed)
I'm not sure whether SoX supports FLAC, but it does support swapping channels in other sound file formats. Make sure you have the latest source code for SoX, in case someone has added support for FLAC. I seem to recall reading that it has been expanded to support FLAC, but many download sites may still have an old version of SoX without FLAC support. If even the latest SoX has no support for FLAC, then just convert your FLAC to WAV, use SoX to swap channels, then convert back to FLAC. I realize that this is a lot of trouble, but you're editing the files, and FLAC is not designed for editing. If you're on a Mac, then afconvert might be able to swap files. You'd need a pluging to support FLAC, though, and that's probably fairly tricky to install, so you're back to converting to WAV just to swap channels. Good luck! Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
