Re: [SoX-users] Using sox from crontab

[Eric W. <nor...@yh...>]

Glenn Cooper <gl...@my...> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I¹ve got an issue using sox from crontab, and handling mp3 files.
> 
> For some reason, I can handle mp3 files from command line using sox with no
> issues, however if I schedule a script to run using crontab, I get the
> following message:
> 
> sox formats: no handler for file extension `mp3'

Perhaps a different installation of sox got used based on your
PATH environment variable.

> Obviously the environment at which sox is being run under crontab, is
> different to the command line environment,
> 
> How do I correct this?

Compare the output of 'env' from your command-line to the output
of 'env' when run from cron and minimize the differences
(again, most likely PATH in your case).