Free/open future
I see few things very clearly.
- humans are increasingly dependant on machines
- technlogy is heading towards complete digitalization
- computing, informatics and digital media are the future
The software used all over the world is heavily influencing daily human lifes. With cheap and powerful hardware availave the software is evovling rapidly and free/open source software is a product of this evolution. It's a new and better way how, why and by whom the code is created, delivering high quality software including tools to create even better software to anyone with an internet connection without a cost.
My point is that the free/open model works very well for the benefit of all and should spread beyond software. Sharing of copyrighted material is now called piracy and is considered illegal by law and by people. I ask myslef the question:
What is best for everyone?
Everyone not being few rich subjects in music/movie industry but everyone. Your favourite movies and music available for free on the net in non-crippled formats, how cool does that sound? It indeed is possible because it's good for everyone including authors as their work may spread freely.
~> T O O H I G H , N E V E R M I N D .
use sox to extract one (left/right) channel
In sox 14.1.0 the deprecated avg effect was removed. All
howtos/tutorial I googled used this effect to extract left/right channel and
it took me a while to figure out how to do so in "non-deprecated" way.
The answer is the mixer effect.
$ sox --help-effect mixer Effect usage: mixer [ -l | -r | -f | -b | -1 | -2 | -3 | -4 | n,n,n...,n ]
To get the
-right channel:
sox infile outfile mixer -r channels 1
Happy soxing!