spawn sox ENOENT about sox-stream

[ithustle]

@ArtskydJ , Working like a charm on both OS.

If sox gets mad about file types, you could try to use sox.js instead.

Well, on windows I have to download libmad-0.dll and libmp3lame-0.dll from here and add libmad-0.dll and libmp3lame-0.dll to the folder where SOX was installed to.

[ArtskydJ]

Sox is not bundled with this module. It needs to be on your path.

On your command line or terminal, can you run sox --help?

[ithustle]

Thanks to reply.
I'm trying with path too and still the same.

[ithustle]

After install sox...

var lowerVolume = sox({ input: { volume: 0.2 }, output: { type: 'mp3' }}) const song = fs.createReadStream(assetUrl); song.pipe(lowerVolume).pipe(res)

Error: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\sox.portable\lib\sox.exe FAIL formats: can't determine type of file C:\Users\ITHustle\AppData\Local\Temp\e8a693c6-4e52-4f46-b6cd-fd7488a6736d'`

[ArtskydJ]

If you run that from the command line, my guess is that you will get the same issue.

cat yourfile.ext | C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\sox.portable\lib\sox.exe

So if you know your file extension, then set options.input.type.

var lowerVolume = sox({ input: { volume: 0.2, type: 'flac' }, output: { type: 'mp3' }})
const song = fs.createReadStream(assetUrl); song.pipe(lowerVolume).pipe(res)

[ArtskydJ]

If sox gets mad about file types, you could try to use sox.js instead.

https://github.com/Artskydj/sox.js

That way the sox executable is able to read the file however it wants, and might be better at detecting the type of the file. When the file is piped, sox is worse at detecting the file type

[ithustle]

I'll try this on mac. I think windows really sucks it

[ithustle]

@ArtskydJ , On mac is working :).
There is no way to make this working with an url? I want to transcode on fly...

And what about bitrate? Can I change it?

[ArtskydJ]

bitrate

sox-stream and sox.js just call sox using child_process.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=change+bitrate+with+sox&kp=1&t=ffab&ia=web

With sox, you can change the bitrate (depending on the file type) using -C or --compression, which in sox-stream looks like: { input: { ... }, output: { compression: '128' } }

make this work with a url?

You should be able to pipe from a network response into sox-stream, I think. sox-stream is more likely to handle the file if you provide the filetype.