On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 20:57 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > david wrote: > > > I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. > > Thats probably MP3 audio data inside a WAV container (much > like you can have vorbis, speex or flac data inside an Ogg > conatiner). > > > I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but > > Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it. > > Audacity and sweep both use libsndfile which sees a WAV file header, > but isn't able to read the MP3 data [0]. > > > After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to *.mp3, other > > programs (banshee for instance) will now play the file as an mp3 file, > > so it seems the JNC plays strange tricks. However sweep and audacity > > still don't like it :( > > > > I need to import the file into an editor. Any suggestions? > > Use mplayer to export it to a standard PCM WAV file and then > edit it in Sweep or Audacity. When you are done editing it, you > can re-encode it as Ogg (or even mp3). > > Erik
Thanks heaps Eric $ mplayer -ao pcm test.mp3 produced an output file generically called <audiodump.wav> which then opened in audacity. Reading <man mplayer> is like reading the tax act. You know it's doing you good... but..... I never did figure out the right options from the man page. Based on your email I googled and found: http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/tutorial-playing-around-with-mplayer which was also a big help. David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
