Messed Up Vinyl

[GBleaney]

I've decided to give SoX a try. Unfortunately, I downloaded and installed it, but how do I actually use it? Command Prompt hasn't had the sox command added to it like it would be in the linux terminal, and I can't seem to find any sort of custom command line that came with the Sox program. (the sox.exe file just opens then immediately closes)

[GBleaney]

I figured out how to get SoX to work, but I'm now having these errors:

sox FAIL util: Unable to load MAD decoder library (libmad).
sox FAIL formats: can't open input file `C:sox-14-3-21 Memory.mp3':

[steve]

MAD decoder is required to decode MP3 files. You could use your favourite MP3 decoder program to convert the MP3s to WAV, then use SoX on the WAV files. I know it's an extra step, but probably quicker than sorting out why libmad isn't loading.

[GBleaney]

Just thought I would let you all know that I found a way to compile sox with mp3 support, in the form of a wonderful guide:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/Co ... _Lame.aspx

The author also includes a pre-compiled version to save work, if your a trusting kind of person.

Thanks to all that have helped me!

[steve]

There's also a note about it in the release notes:
http://sox.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitw ... 32;hb=HEAD

85 Appendix - MP3 Support
86 ----------------------
87
88 SoX contains support for reading and writing MP3 files but does not ship
89 with the DLL's that perform decoding and encoding of MP3 data because
90 of patent restrictions. For further details, refer to:
91
92 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licens ... ent_issues
93
94 MP3 support can be enabled by placing Lame encoding DLL and/or
95 MAD decoding DLL into the same directory as SOX.EXE. These
96 can be compiled yourself, they may turn up on searches of the internet
97 or may be included with other MP3 applications already installed
98 on your system. For encoding/writing, try searching for lame-enc.dll,
99 libmp3lame-0.dll, libmp3lame.dll, or cygmp3lame-0.dll. For
100 decoding/reading, try searching for libmad-0.dll, libmad.dll or cygmad-0.dll.
101
102 Instructions are included here for using MSYS to create the DLL's.
103 It is assumed you already have MSYS installed on your system
104 with a working gcc compiler. The commands are ran from MSYS
105 bash shell.
106
107 Obtain the latest Lame and MAD source code from approprate locations.
108
109 Lame MP3 encoder http://lame.sourceforge.net
110 MAD MP3 decoder http://www.underbit.com/products/mad
111
112 cd lame-398-2
113 ./configure --disabled-static --enable-shared
114 make
115 cp libmp3lame/.libs/libmp3lame-0.dll /path/to/sox
116
117 MAD libraries up to 0.15.1b have a bug in configure that will not allow
118 building DLL under mingw. This can be resolved by adding LDFLAGS
119 to configure and editing the generated Makefile to remove an invalid
120 option.
121
122 cd libmad-0.15.1b
123 ./configure --enable-shared --disable-static LDFLAGS="-no-undefined"
124 [edit Makefile, search for "-fforce-mem" and delete it.]
125 make
126 cp libmad-0.dll /path/to/sox/