On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:25:54 -0500
Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
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Actually my first choice was to use audacity to do the conversion.
Thus I was trying to load amr into audacity. Audacity should not
crash hard on loading a codec it does not understand.
Correct. It should give a message that the codec is unknown. This is
a bug if it isn't something wrong with the amr files.
Given these were a couple speaches I captured and the person wanting
them only has Media Player 12 (and the knowledge base info on adding
amr to that is pretty obtuse), I was asked to send it as wav. I
found a website to upload to for the conversion. I checked the
output and did not find any mal stuff dropped in. So that is done.
I use VLC to listen to my amr recordings.
I used yumex and searched it for amr, and that did not offer sox.
Google search on amr conversion to wav did not offer sox. But thanks
to you, I know this now and will give it a try.
I did a web search and found someone recommending sox for amr
conversion. I've used sox for batch conversions in the past, it's
really handy for that.
There was mention of another conversion program that handled amr
(mik???), but I hadn't heard of it before so recommended sox instead.