Re: [SoX-users] DAT file documentation

[Chris B. <ch...@cn...>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jan Stary <ha...@st...> wrote:
> On Nov 22 07:34:51, jim Schimpf wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>       In the SOX documents it says the DAT file is text file of the signal data with the first line being a single value of sample rate and subsequent lines being time and the the wave value scaled from -1 to 1.
>>
>>       When I make a file like this SOX says it cannot find the sample rate,
>>
>> 8000                          <-- Sample rate
>> 0 0                                   <-- First time & sample
>> 0.000125 0.105667     <-- Next?
>>       :
>>
>>
>>  instead if I make it of the form: (which matches the output created by having sox output a DAT file)
>>
>> ; Sample Rate 8000
>> ; Channels 1
>> 0 0
>> 0.000125 0.105667
>>       :
>>
>> then it works just fine.
>>
>> Did I miss something or should the documentation be amended ?
>
>
> This git patch still needs to be edited to include the
>
>        ; Sample Rate 48000
>        ; Channels 2
>
> lines; I never got around to learning the man syntax
> properly, so please someone finish this.
>
>        Jan
>
>

Thanks, Jan.  I have committed the patch and updated it to include an example of
header like you showed above.

Chris