[Flac] Switching Left Right Channel

[dathead2 at gmail.com]

On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Ron Decline <rutlecorps at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:50 PM, dathead2 at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Ron Decline <rutlecorps at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to switch the Left / Right channel when encoding in  
>>> FLAC?
>>> (I have some flac files with incorrect left/right channel  
>>> assignment that I would like to re-encode with flac)
>>> _____________________________
>>
>> I'm not sure flac can do that but sox and audacity both easily can
>
> SoX looks promising (and looks like a program that I may have other  
> uses for)
> Looks like "swap" is the command I need, but if I enter "sox  
> file1.flac file2.flac swap" I
> get an error: sox FAIL formats: no handler for detected file type  
> `flac'
> (I'm on OS X and I have libFLAC installed)

You probably need to build sox with flac support not sure you can just  
dynamically pull it in

Short term fix. Do flac -d to go to wav then do sox swap then flac again