Re: [SoX-users] Help troubleshooting play which seems to stop after 5 hours in repeat mode

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

On Feb 02 19:28:27, da_...@ya... wrote:
> Running with the higher verbosity level revealed that the clip is 1/2 as long as it should be.  Digging deeper, it seems that the -c 2 switch is to blame.  If I omit it, I get the expected 30 seconds of playback; if I keep it, the playback is 15 sec.  Is this the expected behavior?

If you explicitly tell SoX is is stereo, it will treat the file
as stereo, even if the wav header says otherwise. So you repeat
the 15 seconds 1200 times, which is exactly 5 hours.