SoX failing sometimes due to culture decimal point differences

[atruskie]

Describe the bug

SoX failed to segment a recording. Log excerpt:

2019-06-25T10:06:01.6885800-03:00 [12] DEBUG Acoustics.Tools.Audio.MasterAudioUtility - Converting and segmenting audio/wav file D:\Tesis\DSC\AP_analysis\Mixdown1.1hs.wav to wav D:\Tesis\DSC\results_AP.exe\Towsey.Acoustic\dg3rquzruhmzxfw5oh5c0th3nqdh4ahg.wav using sox. Settings: Request starts at 1 hour 18 minutes (4680000ms) and finishes at 1 hour 18 minutes 39 seconds (4719604ms) (39 seconds 604 ms 39604ms). Sample rate of 22050 hertz.Mix channels down to mono.
2019-06-25T10:06:01.6895801-03:00 [12] VERBOSE ProcessRunner - 393: Process runner arguments: -R  -q -V4 "D:\Tesis\DSC\AP_analysis\Mixdown1.1hs.wav" -t wavpcm "D:\Tesis\DSC\results_AP.exe\Towsey.Acoustic\dg3rquzruhmzxfw5oh5c0th3nqdh4ahg.wav" trim 4680 39,6039999999994 rate -v -s -a 22050 remix - 
2019-06-25T10:06:01.7155816-03:00 [12] VERBOSE ProcessRunner - 393: Process exited without timing out: 1
2019-06-25T10:06:01.7165816-03:00 [12] DEBUG Acoustics.Tools.Audio.SoxAudioUtility - Executed sox.exe in working directory D:\Tesis\DSC\results_AP.exe\Towsey.Acoustic. Took 26 ms (26.582ms). Exit code: 1
2019-06-25T10:06:01.7165816-03:00 [12] VERBOSE Acoustics.Tools.Audio.SoxAudioUtility - Process runner output for sox.exe:
Arguments:  -R  -q -V4 "D:\Tesis\DSC\AP_analysis\Mixdown1.1hs.wav" -t wavpcm "D:\Tesis\DSC\results_AP.exe\Towsey.Acoustic\dg3rquzruhmzxfw5oh5c0th3nqdh4ahg.wav" trim 4680 39,6039999999994 rate -v -s -a 22050 remix - 
Error output: D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe:      SoX v14.4.2
time:     Feb 22 2015 15:05:01
compiler: gcc 4.9.2 20141030 (Fedora MinGW 4.9.2-1.fc21)
arch:     1248 48 44 L OMP
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe DBUG wav: Searching for 66 6d 74 20
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe DBUG wav: WAV Chunk fmt 
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe DBUG wav: Searching for 64 61 74 61
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe DBUG wav: WAV Chunk data
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe DBUG wav: Reading Wave file: Microsoft PCM format, 2 channels, 16000 samp/sec
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe DBUG wav:         64000 byte/sec, 4 block align, 16 bits/samp, 302054632 data bytes
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe DBUG wav:         75513658 Samps/chans
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe DBUG wav: Searching for 4c 49 53 54
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe FAIL trim: Error parsing position 2
D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe FAIL trim: usage: {position}


No standard output

2019-06-25T10:06:01.8565896-03:00 [1] FATAL LogFileOnly - Unhandled exception ->

Acoustics.Tools.Audio.AudioUtilityException: Failed to execute process: exit code was `1`. `D:\AP\audio-utils\windows\sox\sox.exe` ` -R  -q -V4 "D:\Tesis\DSC\AP_analysis\Mixdown1.1hs.wav" -t wavpcm 

The comma in the SoX command is probably the issue. The error was reported by @tinchobulen who uses an Argentinian locale.

Expected behaviour

When we format numbers for CLI tools to use, the should be formatted with the culture invariant culture.

Diagnostics

• I Confirm I have followed the instructions for reporting a bug
• I have attached a log: see excerpt above
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  • Operating system: Windows 7 Ultimate
  • AP.exe version: v19.5.0.1
  • The data used can be found:
  • The command I used:

in Power Shell:

D:\AP\AnalysisPrograms.exe audio2csv D:\Tesis\DCS\AP_analysis\Mixdown1.1hs.wav Towsey.Acoustic.yml D:\Tesis\DCS\results_AP.exe

Screenshots

Additional Details

[atruskie]

Originally raised in #241

[tinchobulen]

Sure @atruskie! sorry for that.

please find attached the log file from the new version of AP.exe.

Tried with R.

log_20190701T150843Z.txt

Martín.