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Copy of part of the mails between two other (one former) list member 
concerning a quick and easy way to do what Windows does the hard way. 
Read up from the bottom:


> On 06-04, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > I compiled the most recent sox, which can be used to record things, but
> > have not really used it yet.  Here is Sam's suggestion.
> >
> > Sindi Keesan

> From Sam:
> > it might be possible to do with multiple edits with sox but it would
> > be a serious pain (i -still- havent quite got the sox commandline
> > figured out... even the author made note in the man page that its a
> > mess)

Hal wrote (having looked at sox more closely after reading the above):

> > > >       Since you are now audio experts; how would you accomplish the
> > > > following:
> > >
> > > >       A 3 minute .wav sound file that plays nicely except the first few
> > > > notes "bang" in and would be better if that was "softened" or quickly
> > > faded
> > > > in.. How to do this with a digital track, not wanting to transfer to
> > > > analogue; fix; then back to digital again??

Hal wrote back: (read this fourth):

>         Greetings and--BINGO!!  APPRECIATE!!
>
> I've used Sox many times but I had no idea it did __anything__ except
> convert from one format to another.. Maybe I should learn how to read the
> mans's, eh??
>
>         Sox filename.wav filename.fi.wav fade 3         did the deed
> perfectly.. Couldn't have done any better even if I knew what I was doing.
> <grin>

Probably in 1 millionth the space of a Windows program, and much faster.

>         Thanks again..
>
>
>                 Hal        GNU/Linux - Slackware 10.2, 2.4.31
> .

Sindi