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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> I tried this with a radio URL and was told:
> sox:  Type AUTO input must be a file, not a pipe.

In English: sox cannot autodetect a filetype unless it "sees" the
file extension. It obviously can't do this with a pipe. You need
to pass options which tell it what kind of input it is receiving.

> I could try writing a script to produce audiodump.wav and pipe that 
> to play but this seems unnecessarily complex, considering Ron got 
> it to work directly.

I agree. It would only be useful for decoding things which mpg123
cannot handle.


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