Re: [ecasound] confusing error message

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Subject: Re: [ecasound] confusing error message
From: Laura Conrad (lconrad@world.std.com)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 22:26:22 EEST

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Vehmanen <k@eca.cx> writes:

    Kai> On 3 Sep 2000, Laura Conrad wrote:
>> ecasound -i /dev/dsp -o di.wav
>> when di.wav already exists, I get:
    Kai> [...]
>> ERROR: [AUDIOIO-WAVE] : "no riff fmt-block found"
    Kai> [...]
>> Is there a way to write this message so that it would be less
>> confusing to the new user?

    Kai> I admit that there's lot to improve in ecasound's error
    Kai> messages. But it isn't always easy to give helpful feedback
    Kai> to the user. For instance, in the above situation, ecasound
    Kai> tries to open a riff-wave file in read-write mode (this is
    Kai> completely normal), but it turns out that the file is
    Kai> invalid.

OK, why is my .wav file invalid? It was a result of a previous:

        ecasound -i /dev/dsp -o di.wav

command. 

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