Re: [SoX-users] Reading a broken WAV file?

[Jan S. <ha...@st...>]

On May 17 20:23:24, Michael Chapman wrote:
> This is OT for SoX, but as the thread has discussed the difficulty of moving
> large (>4GB files) arround on USB-sticks, I thought I would report one
> apparent (I still have to try it!) solution.

(This is indeed very OT now.)

> One can use:
> tar -c -M --tape-length XXX [etc]
> to create multiple *.tar files each (or each but the last!) of length XXX 
> times 1024 bytes.
> 
> These can then be moved arround.
> Then re-assembled:
> tar -x -M [etc]

Or one can buy big enough media on ebay for a few cents, install
a filesystem that can hold a file larger than 4G, and be done with it.