Re: [proaudio] autools

["Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Cory Bannister wrote:

> Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Francisco Oltra wrote:
> >
> > > On 2007-07-05 04:17:13 -0700 Cory Bannister
> > > <cory.bannister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > >  I'm in need of a utility to join several .au files together.  I
> > > > lost an
> > > >  audacity .aup file and have only many, many .au files of about 24
> > > >  seconds each.   I can list the files by creation time to get the
> > > > correct
> > > >  order however I'm unable to join them in any way that I know.  autools
> > > >  has a tool called plax that seems to be the tool I'm looking for
> > > > however
> > > >  it is not in portage or pro-audio overlay and I cannot get the
> > > > source to
> > > >  compile.
> > > >  Do anyone know of a way I can join .au files together?  I tried cat
> > > > and
> > > >  although it works, it inserts a clip between each join.
> >
> >
> > Start snd, create a new empty file with proper number of channels and
> > samplerate, then edit "path" and "files" in the script below, and
> > after that just paste it into the terminal you started snd.
> >
> > (define path "/path/to/soundfiles/")
> > (define files '(file1.au file2.au file3.au etc.))
> >
> > (for-each (lambda (file)
> >              (insert-sound (string-append path (symbol->string file))
> > (frames)))
> >           files)
> Should I be doing anything else?  Nothing happens when I paste the
> script portion.  I changed the path and added the files.


1. Did you remember to create a new file first? (File->New)
2. Are you sure the path and files was correct? (Did you remember the
   trailing slash in path?)
3. Did you get any error messages?
4. Which terminal do you use? Try plain xterm. (in case that helps: weird)