sox runs a long time?

[Joseph Sinclair]

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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