[ubuntu-uk] Joining wav files in ubuntu

[Colin Law]

On 16 October 2012 12:00, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/10/12 10:14, James Morrissey wrote:
>> I know you mentioned that you wanted a GUI, but that 'cat'
>> (concatenate) command in the terminal is pretty straightforward to use
>> - and very fast compared to anything else i have used with a GUI.
>>
>> I think its just: "cat file1 file2 > file3"
>>
>> http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/cat.shtml
>>
>> It joins the files in the order that you input them, and outputs them
>> to 'file3'.
>
> 'cat' is designed for text files. I'm not sure it will do what you
> expect it to do with wav (audio) files.

 I believe cat works fine to join binary files.  The question is
whether wav files simply concatenated will make a valid wav file.
Since it is just as easy to use sox then that is probably the best way
to go anyway.

Colin