Re: [SoX-users] SoX Stats: add peak position? (N Arora)

[nitin a. <nit...@gm...>]

Hello,

Your description is exactly what I should have said. :-)
Yes, in the even that the file needs to be re-digitized, I would want to be
able to have some reasonable level of confidence that I have a File #2 that
syncs with the first file File#1. Let's say File #1 is hypothetically
destroyed and or corrupt and backups are also suffering from the same
misfortune.

If the descriptive metadata (essentially the cataloging information XML
file) is still intact, this cataloging info would refer to durations and
start/stop times of regions within File #1. Without peak position, etc. that
cataloging info is almost surely invalid for File #2. Hence, the desire to
collect more info an try to "work backwards" and come up with more or less
the same file from start to finish. Throw in the possibility that the audio
is an oral history interview and transcripts have been synced with the
audio, then it becomes even more critical to have the new File #2 sync to
the old File #1 otherwise even more work will have to get redone - i.e. the
transcript will have to get synced again to the File #2.

Leveling File #2 the same as File #1 would be nice, too. But I think the
sync issue is far more important.

Most dig libraries record technical info about the audio file to try and
document enough data so that hopefully the container (WAV) can be reopened
if its no longer a sustained format one day, but there seems to be little
effort in collecting technical data about the audio within the container
itself. That is to say, the technical data that is typically collected would
be identical (sans file name and file date differences) for two files of
exactly 10 minutes each that are both say 24/96 stereo WAVs. Having more
full audio statistics would help make this technical data more unique per
file in addition to the sync issue above.

ps: sorry about top posting. I never got the first messages to this thread
in my email and so couldnt' reply. Hope I got it right this time.
peace,