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Bug 617334

Summary: aiff read bug when mark chunk present
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Component: soxAssignee: Frantisek Kluknavsky <fkluknav>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.5CC: cww, jwest, rvokal
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch, ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, an attempt to convert an Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) file that contained the MARK chunk may have failed with the following error: sox: Failed reading file.aiff: AIFF: no sound data on input file With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to target this issue, and such files are now converted as expected.
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Last Closed: 2013-09-23 11:13:59 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 651404    
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Description Flags
sample aiff file
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upstream patch to fix aiff read bug none

Description Jeff Bastian 2010-07-22 19:17:29 UTC 
Created attachment 433790 [details]
sample aiff file

Description of problem:
This is upstream bug
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1627972&group_id=10706&atid=110706

sox prints an error when trying to read aiff files:
$ sox aiff.64.aiff aiff.64.wav
sox: Failed reading aiff.64.aiff: AIFF: no sound data on input file


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sox-12.18.1-1

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sox aiff.64.aiff aiff.64.wav
  
Actual results:
sox: Failed reading aiff.64.aiff: AIFF: no sound data on input file

Expected results:
successful conversion to a wav file (or other format)

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Bastian 2010-07-22 19:18:28 UTC 
Created attachment 433791 [details]
upstream patch to fix aiff read bug
Comment 10 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-11-10 16:26:05 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, an attempt to convert an Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) file that contained the MARK chunk may have failed with the following error:

  sox: Failed reading file.aiff: AIFF: no sound data on input file

With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to target this issue, and such files are now converted as expected.