Re: [SoX-users] no default audio device configured

[Doug C. <idi...@us...>]

On Windows,

sox -d (other stuff...)

is the same as

sox -t waveaudio default (other stuff...)

The "default" is used as the input filename, but it uses the "waveaudio"
input plugin, and the waveaudio input plugin uses "default" to mean "use
the wave mapper", which is the way Windows exposes the "default input
device". If you don't have a default set, some programs go ahead and try
the "first input device", but sox doesn't do that.

If the filename "default" doesn't work, you'll need to find a filename that
does. Each input device on your system gets assigned a number (starting at
0) and a name. You can use either the number or the name. The name is
generally pretty hard to figure out, so most of the time people just use
the number. For that, just go by trial and error until you figure out what
number matches up with each of your input devices. On my system, "0" is the
built-in microphone, and "1" is the microphone on my USB headphones. So I
use:

sox -t waveaudio 1 outputFileName.mp3

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Jarod King <jar...@ho...> wrote:

> I have installed the latest version of sox for Windows and when I try to
> record audio for 20 seconds from a microphone I am getting an error
> message.  The command I am running and error message are:
>
> C:\Program Files\sox-14-4-2>
> *sox -d testfile.wav 00:00:20 -t waveaudiosox FAIL sox: Sorry, there is no
> default audio device configured*
>
> I have tried this with and without the -t option and get the same error
> either way.  I have downloaded and installed the Realtek audio driver for
> my specific computer model from the Acer website.  In Control Panel, I can
> see the microphone is configured as the default recording device.  I am
> able to record from other applications such as SoundRecorder, Audacity,
> Total Recorder, etc.  Why isn't this working?  Thanks!
>
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