Hello,
is it possible to use audacity from the Linux shell? I need a shell script that converts caf file to wav file. Thank you for your answer.
Regards,
FoL
Can I command Audacity from shell?
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forceoflight
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Re: Can I command Audacity from shell?
Does Audacity support .CAF files?
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Re: Can I command Audacity from shell?
Audacity is not really the best tool for simply converting file formats... Audacity also doesn't work from the command line. The only thing you can do with audacity from the command line is to launch it, and that it.
For what you want you should have a look at an called pacpl (it's a command line perl script for converting audio formats). pacpl can read CAF.
The syntax is very easy: pacpl --to wav file.caf
It can accept a directoy as input. Read the manpage for more details and examples. You can get pacpl from here: http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/
It's also available in many linux distros such as Debian or Ubuntu.
For what you want you should have a look at an called pacpl (it's a command line perl script for converting audio formats). pacpl can read CAF.
The syntax is very easy: pacpl --to wav file.caf
It can accept a directoy as input. Read the manpage for more details and examples. You can get pacpl from here: http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/
It's also available in many linux distros such as Debian or Ubuntu.
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forceoflight
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Re: Can I command Audacity from shell?
Hello,
pacpl works perfectly. It took a while to get it compiled and installed to RHEL4 server. Anyway, now it is working and big thanks to you!
Regards,
FoL
pacpl works perfectly. It took a while to get it compiled and installed to RHEL4 server. Anyway, now it is working and big thanks to you!
Regards,
FoL