Bug 183306 – media-sound/sox-13.0.0 unable to convert/play uncompressed NIST/SPHERE files.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Jeff 2007-06-26 18:49:12 UTC]

Here seems to be a two-fold issue:

1) Version 13 cannot properly play uncompressed (rarely seen or used any more) NIST/Sphere sound files. If I build sox from CVS, and build --without-flac, it can handle the files fine. The portage version 13 however, even built with USE="-flac" still has problems with the files.

2) Version 13 also seems to randomly strip endian bits that appear after the 1024 bit header in these same files. It's very odd behavior, and I've also cross-addressed this issue with the sox developers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="-flac" emerge -av media-sound/sox-13.0.0
2. play a sample uncompressed NIST/Sphere sound sample.
3. Convert the sample to wav using sox, and it still appears to have trouble playing it.

Actual Results:  
Even after conversion using v13, the uncompressed sample files come out as junk.

Expected Results:  
We've nary had a problem with v12.x versions of sox, but apparently, v13 seems to handle AIFF files better than v12.x.

Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:00:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.32
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en_US en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/local/layman/xeffects-experimental"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl acpi aim alsa apache2 asf avahi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli console cracklib crypt cups curl dbus divx dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal iconv icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jpeg kerberos ldap libg++ libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mono motif mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap mysql nautilus ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oscar pam pango pcre pdf perl php png posix ppds python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline real reflection ruby samba sasl sdl session silc sound spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg symlink tcl tcpd theora threads thunderbird tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis webdav win32codecs wxwindows x86 xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xv yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 nv nvidia v4l vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPT

[Comment 1 Alexis Ballier 2007-09-21 05:02:44 UTC]

do you have a link where I can download such a file ?
is this fixed with 14.0.0 ?

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-12-12 16:32:05 UTC]

14.0.0 is current stable, retry and reopen if this is still a problem.