Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3

[david <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:50 +1000, James Purser wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:02 +1000, david wrote:
> > I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. 
> > 
> > I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but
> > Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it.
> > 
> > After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to *.mp3, other
> > programs (banshee for instance) will now play the file as an mp3 file,
> > so it seems the JNC plays strange tricks. However sweep and audacity
> > still don't like it :(
> > 
> > I need to import the file into an editor. Any suggestions?
> > 
> 
> What does $:file [FILE] give you?

david@test:~/Desktop/wav $ file test.mp3 
test.mp3: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz
david@test:~/Desktop/wav $ file REC14.080603.1000.wav 
REC14.080603.1000.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM,
mono 8000 Hz