From: Brian Wolven <bcwolven_at_jhu.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:15:46 -0500

Jens Arnold wrote:
> On 29.11.2005, Brian Wolven wrote:
>
>> Jens Arnold wrote:
>>> On 28.11.2005, Brian Wolven wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks to some free time during the Thanksgiving holiday,
>>>> there is now a new version of voiceBox, available at the
>>>> usual place:
>
>>> Looks rather good, and works. However, it seems that
>>> 'Overwrite existing .talk files' doesn't work.
>
>> Hrmmmm, I just tried running it three times, toggling back and
>> forth on the 'Overwrite existing .talk files' option. In all
>> cases it worked properly. Saving a shortcut to the desktop and
>> running it from there also overwrote the old .talk files. Has
>> anyone else seen this behavior?
>
> When I tried, no matter what I set the option to, the script
> didn't touch already existing .talk files. I admit that I
> replaced the oldish lame version with 3.96.1. Could that be a
> problem?

I suppose it could if the lame command line options and/or defaults have
changed. I'll have to check out the newer version and see what looks different.
Does the script produce .talk files if they don't already exist? If so, then
maybe there is a new flag that needs to be set to force the new lame.exe to
overwrite existing files. I'll go look...
Received on 2005-11-29