I don't think you can reasonably gauge user opinion from the bug tracker. Even on the mailing list it's hard. What you might prefer to do is close this bug but document this gap in SoX's support, perhaps in the source code, e.g. in wav.c.
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SoX can read and write linear PCM, floating point, u-law, A-law,
MS ADPCM, and IMA (or DVI) ADPCM encoded samples. WAV files can
also contain audio encoded in many other ways (not currently
supported with SoX) e.g. MP3; in some cases such a file can
still be read by SoX by overriding the file type, e.g.
play -t mp3 mp3-encoded.wav
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This (-t mp3) is a hack that works because mp3 will skip over garbage (which is what the wav header is to it).
Generally, I think feature requests should remain open (even after a long time) unless they are resolved or it is agreed that we don't *want* to resolve them, e.g. because they are out of scope for SoX. Obviously, this doesn't mean that anyone is required to work on them.
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Did I say "copy"? I meant "reuse", of course.
Does anyone wish use the mp3-in-wav format?
Can this 2006 Christmass wish be closed?
I don't think you can reasonably gauge user opinion from the bug tracker. Even on the mailing list it's hard. What you might prefer to do is close this bug but document this gap in SoX's support, perhaps in the source code, e.g. in wav.c.
Or perhaps even better in the documentation, so users can see what is missing, or even what they could ask for.
This is what soxformat(7) says:
SoX can read and write linear PCM, floating point, u-law, A-law,
MS ADPCM, and IMA (or DVI) ADPCM encoded samples. WAV files can
also contain audio encoded in many other ways (not currently
supported with SoX) e.g. MP3; in some cases such a file can
still be read by SoX by overriding the file type, e.g.
play -t mp3 mp3-encoded.wav
This (-t mp3) is a hack that works because mp3 will skip over garbage (which is what the wav header is to it).
Generally, I think feature requests should remain open (even after a long time) unless they are resolved or it is agreed that we don't *want* to resolve them, e.g. because they are out of scope for SoX. Obviously, this doesn't mean that anyone is required to work on them.