adding silence to audio files

Sergei V. Fleytin fleytin at yandex.ru
Thu Aug 7 23:13:13 EDT 2008


Hello, Chuck and list!

Chuck, thanks for your directions! Will try them soon. However, from the 
step discribe it seems to me that this will pace the silence at the 
beginning of the file. Or did I misunderstood something?

Thanks,

Sergei.


Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Sergei,
>
> With wedit, take these steps:
>
> At a prompt, type "wedit filename.wav"
>
> When the clip is available, type a plus sign to go to the 2nd floor.
>
> On the 2nd floor, type the command wait 3
>
> Then type the command save
>
> Type qt
>
> Repeat the above for each file. When you type the save command, you
> will be warned if you are overwriting the original file. Type the
> letter o to overwrite, anything else creates a unique filename.
>
> If that does not work, or if you have too many files to make it
> feasible, let me know and I'll outline a sox procedure to do it.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:35:04PM +0400, Sergei V. Fleytin wrote:
>    
>> Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>>      
>>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:50:18AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Hi Sergei,
>>>>
>>>> I have a wave editor called wedit that could do it, but unfortunately
>>>> it cannot do it from the command line. You would have to use it
>>>> interactively and modify each of the files one at a time.
>>>>          
>> Btw, I recently started using wedit on a regular basis and like it a
>> lot. Thank you very much for such a helpful program. Unfortunately, my
>> sound experience is very limited, so I could not figure out how to
>> create a  wav file of silence neither with sox nor with wedit. So, if
>> you can bare with my stupidity, a simple example of how to do that with
>> both tools would be highly apreciated.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Sergei.
>>
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