Question: Easy way to convert file_info.encoding into encoding input format ?

[poofyteddy]

Hello,
i'm trying to do thing right for my combiner and fill all the value in my set.input.format with data from the file itself
I know the data is implicitly fed if set to NONE, but i still wanted to do it.

The issue i am having is that sox.file_info.encoding("/some/path/to/file.wav") return a string like 'Signed Integer PCM', witch can't be used as an argument for my sox.combiner().set_input_format(encoding = ##) who expect signed-integer

So, i have looked a bit around without finding something who do the conversion/give me a value i can just put in, and before doing an ugly switch case list of elif, i was wondering if i missed anything.

Thank's for the time and work, this wrapper saved my butt ^^'

[rabitt]

Hi @poofyteddy . I suspect you're wanting to set the input format because of the annoying warning sox is putting (see #85 )?

The short answer to your question is, no there isn't an easy way to convert between the output of file_info.encoding to the expected input format of Combiner.set_input_format. I haven't had a use case for this functionality before (since sox is internally doing what you propose), but if you have one I'm happy to look at a pull request!

[poofyteddy]

This was in did my start point, after seeing that you could specified the files informations, i thought that it was a better/proper way to do it anyway. I don't have a real need for it, it only "feel" better than letting it figure it out (event if in the end i ask him the data to give back....)

If there is nothing in place, it's ok. But i don't have a real usecase, and feel like adding a "switch case" method to convert one type of data to the other would be ok for a script, not for the library (being only a wrapper, sox could change there output.)

Thank's for your time answering !