#897565 sox: null file (-n) contains inexplicable noise

Package:
sox
Source:
sox
Description:
Swiss army knife of sound processing
Submitter:
Bas Zoetekouw
Date:
2025-11-25 17:10:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#897565#5
Date:
2018-05-02 22:01:42 UTC
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According to the sox manual, the --null option

So, one would expect that a null input file converted to a different
format would result in total silence.  More explicitly,, one would
expect

to output 16 0-bytes.

However, instead of 0-bytes, we get wat seems to be 1-bit noise:


Curiously enough, everything works as expected if we use _real_
silence as input:
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#897565#15
Date:
2025-11-25 17:08:29 UTC
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That's not a bug, it's a feature :)