[SoX-users] Does anyone actually use 'v' and 'V' when playing a file?

[Martin G. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi
  The manual has long said that pressing the v and V keys
in interactive mode (i.e. "play" or "-d") will decrease and
increase the volume of the audio mixer, but this was only ever
implemented for Solaris (-t sunau) and OSS on Linux, not for
alsa, ao (Xiph's libao device driver), coreaudio (Mac),
pulseaudio, sndio or waveaudio (Windows)

  However, the OSS compatibility layer for ALSA is not generally
enabled by default, or is not included in many Linux distributions,
which is presumably why 'v' and 'V' don't work any more.

  So my question is whether anyone actually uses and likes 'v' and 'V'
or whether I can just remove this functionality, which would be easier
than writing the code to drive half a dozen audio mixer controllers.

   As of sox-14.9 in May you'll be able to achieve the same effect
by including a final "softvol" effect and using

    --keymap v:softvol.volume-2 --keymap V:softvol.volume+2

or that could be the default mapping for v and V.

Thanks

    M