sox: unrecognized option `--info'

[shnist]

Hi,

I've been using your library flawlessly on my Mac. Unfortunately I've been running into problems when trying to use it on a CentOS 6 box. I've installed the 14.2.0 version of Sox that comes with yum.

When I try and run the library it throws the following error: sox: unrecognized option `--info'

Have you come across this before?

When I try running sox --info directly on the command gives the following:

sox: unrecognized option `--info'
sox: SoX v14.2.0

Failed: invalid option

Usage summary: [gopts] [[fopts] infile]... [fopts] outfile [effect [effopts]]...

SPECIAL FILENAMES (infile, outfile):
-                        Pipe/redirect input/output (stdin/stdout); use with -t
-d, --default-device     Use the default audio device (where available)
-n, --null               Use the `null' file handler; e.g. with synth effect
-p, --sox-pipe           Alias for `-t sox -'

SPECIAL FILENAMES (infile only):
"|program [options] ..." Pipe input from external program (where supported)
http://server/file       Use the given URL as input file (where supported)

GLOBAL OPTIONS (gopts) (can be specified at any point before the first effect):
--buffer BYTES           Set the size of all processing buffers (default 8192)
--combine concatenate    Concatenate multiple input files (default for sox, rec)
--combine sequence       Sequence multiple input files (default for play)
--effects-file FILENAME  File containing effects and options
-h, --help               Display version number and usage information
--help-effect NAME       Show usage of effect NAME, or NAME=all for all
--help-format NAME       Show info on format NAME, or NAME=all for all
--input-buffer BYTES     Override the input buffer size (default: as --buffer)
--interactive            Prompt to overwrite output file
-m, --combine mix        Mix multiple input files (instead of concatenating)
-M, --combine merge      Merge multiple input files (instead of concatenating)
--plot gnuplot|octave    Generate script to plot response of filter effect
-q, --no-show-progress   Run in quiet mode; opposite of -S
--replay-gain track|album|off  Default: off (sox, rec), track (play)
-R                       Use default random numbers (same on each run of SoX)
-S, --show-progress      Display progress while processing audio data
--version                Display version number of SoX and exit
-V[LEVEL]                Increment or set verbosity level (default 2); levels:
                           1: failure messages
                           2: warnings
                           3: details of processing
                           4-6: increasing levels of debug messages
FORMAT OPTIONS (fopts):
Input file format options need only be supplied for files that are headerless.
Output files will have the same format as the input file where possible and not
overriden by any of various means including providing output format options.

-v|--volume FACTOR       Input file volume adjustment factor (real number)
-t|--type FILETYPE       File type of audio
-s/-u/-f/-U/-A/-i/-a/-g  Encoding type=signed-integer/unsigned-integer/floating-
                         point/mu-law/a-law/ima-adpcm/ms-adpcm/gsm-full-rate
-e|--encoding ENCODING   Set encoding (ENCODING in above list)
-b|--bits BITS           Encoded sample size in bits
-1/-2/-3/-4/-8           Encoded sample size in bytes
-N|--reverse-nibbles     Encoded nibble-order
-X|--reverse-bits        Encoded bit-order
--endian little|big|swap Encoded byte-order; swap means opposite to default
-L/-B/-x                 Short options for the above
-c|--channels CHANNELS   Number of channels of audio data; e.g. 2 = stereo
-r|--rate RATE           Sample rate of audio
-C|--compression FACTOR  Compression factor for output format
--add-comment TEXT       Append output file comment
--comment TEXT           Specify comment text for the output file
--comment-file FILENAME  File containing comment text for the output file

AUDIO FILE FORMATS: 8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb au avr caf cdda cdr cvs cvsd dat dvms f4 f8 fap flac fssd gsm hcom htk ima ircam la lpc lpc10 lu mat mat4 mat5 maud nist ogg paf prc pvf raw s1 s2 s3 s4 sb sd2 sds sf sl smp snd sndfile sndr sndt sou sox sph sw txw u1 u2 u3 u4 ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox w64 wav wavpcm wv wve xa xi
PLAYLIST FORMATS: m3u pls
AUDIO DEVICE DRIVERS: alsa ao oss ossdsp

EFFECTS: allpass band bandpass bandreject bass bend chorus compand contrast dcshift deemph delay dither earwax echo echos equalizer fade filter flanger gain highpass ladspa loudness lowpass mcompand mixer noiseprof noisered norm oops pad phaser pitch rate remix repeat reverb reverse riaa silence spectrogram speed splice stat stretch swap synth tempo treble tremolo trim vol

EFFECT OPTIONS (effopts): effect dependent; see --help-effect

When I run the same on my Mac I get the following:

sox:      SoX v

Usage: soxi [-V[level]] [-T] [-t|-r|-c|-s|-d|-D|-b|-B|-e|-a] infile1 ...

-V[n]   Increment or set verbosity level (default is 2)
-T  With -s, -d or -D, display the total across all given files

-t  Show detected file-type
-r  Show sample-rate
-c  Show number of channels
-s  Show number of samples (0 if unavailable)
-d  Show duration in hours, minutes and seconds (0 if unavailable)
-D  Show duration in seconds (0 if unavailable)
-b  Show number of bits per sample (0 if not applicable)
-B  Show the bitrate averaged over the whole file (0 if unavailable)
-e  Show the name of the audio encoding
-a  Show file comments (annotations) if available

With no options, as much information as is available is shown for
each given file.

Version 14.4.1 is installed on my Mac (by Brew).

[andrewrk]

looks like 14.2 is too old and the minimum version is 14.4.

[shnist]

Thanks for replying so quickly. If that's the case it may be worth specifying that in the read me. Most linux distros are still on 14.3.x

I'll have a go installing SoX from source on the CentOS box and will let you know if that fixes the problem.

[andrewrk]

If that's the case it may be worth specifying that in the read me.

Agreed. I'll do that before I close this issue.

I'll have a go installing SoX from source on the CentOS box and will let you know if that fixes the problem.

Much appreciated.

[Bit-me]

The behaviour is still the same with SoX 14.4.2 (on MacOS 10.12.6). Both sox --version and sox --info

deliver an empty version field as described above.