Re: [SoX-users] [SoX-devel] Poll on Windows version of SoX

[Martin P. <va...@gm...>]

Personally I've survived without the extra formats or the /dev/dsp on
Windows by piping to external programs (eg oggenc, lame, etc). I even
made my own really simple "play" and "record" programs.

I generally prefer native Windows builds to Cygwin builds just because
of all the issues with different programs having different versions of
cygwin1.dll in their own directories, and other little things like
/cygdrive/k instead of a drive letter k: popping up unexpected. On the
other hand, I get the idea that piping between programs is too tricky
for some people that want to use Sox on Windows, so a Cygwin build
would probably be more useful for them. Is it too much trouble to have
both?

I think I've always used the plain text documents. But the PDF
versions are formatted neater :) especially when you look at the text
docs without UTF-8, because you get tabs appearing in funny places.