--- You wrote:
Peter M. Traub wrote:

> I'm using sndinfo on various sound files that i have downloaded from
> the web. they have all been converted to 44k 16 bit stereo AIFF with
> SOX before sndinfo looks at them. with certain files, it outputs the
> following error (this is in Linux):
> 
> 'Floating point exception (core dumped)'
> 
> does this mean the soundfile is bad or is it something that sndinfo
> cannot read (it just looks at the file header, right?). Thanks in
> advance

Peter, what version of SOX are you using ? Earlier versions had some
trouble writing AIFF files properly. You can check my soundapps page for
the latest version.

== Dave Phillips

       http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/index.html
   http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html
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Hi Dave,

I'm using 12.15 which I linked to from your page (Chris Bagwell's version). I was previously using an older version which did have trouble writing AIFFs, but this one seems to be ok. I also tested one of the problematic sound files on an SGI, and sndinfo gave me a similar error:

Trace/BPT trap (core dumped)

The file played back fine using Peak on a Mac. Thanks again.