sox shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes on any reasonable CPU to transform a 4MB OGG/Vorbis file to MP3. If it runs more than a few minutes it's almost certainly hung and should be killed. There are still a LOT of bugs in sox, so it's not unusual to have it choke on a file now and then. The problem is, when it chokes on a file, it often continues to choke on that same file repeatedly, using a different tool often becomes necessary at that point.
Alan Dayley wrote:
> I am using the utility sox to convert and .ogg music file to .mp3 so I
> can put it on my music player. I executed the command:
>
> sox this_song.ogg this_song.mp3
>
> at the command line. The original .ogg is about 4MB in size. sox has
> been running 25 minutes now and is still eating 90+% of the CPU. The
> target .mp3 file is created but has zero length.
>
> Is it supposed to run this long? How do I know if sox is now a runaway
> process?
>
> I'm going to bed now and just leaving it running. If it is still going
> in the morning, it's probably hung out somewhere. :^)
>
> Alan
>
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