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Not possible to pipe output to file
Since the tool is printing progress as it is analyzing, you can't pipe the output from r128x-cli to a file, thus output like:
r128x *.m4a > logfile.txt
… will produce output looking like the attached screenshot - full of progress data, and every once in a while, a line with the actual output.
This can probably be solved by printing the progress indicator on stderr instead of stdout.
Unfortunately, changing
printf("%3d%% \n\033[F\033[J", (int)(ratio));
into
fprintf(stderr, "%3d%% \n\033[F\033[J", (int)(ratio));
does not print any progress on the terminal.
Still searching.
How about adding --no-progress as a command line argument, so that it doesn't print anything on stdout except the header and then the completed result? That would solve the issue for anyone wanting to run this on large batches of files, while preserving the progress indicator for those merely wanting to check a single folder/file.
Hello,
here's a test that sends progress on stderr, therefore allowing redirection of output to text file without garbage. (See branch https://github.com/audionuma/r128x/tree/progress-on-stderr )
Here's a binary : https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3cque7875jmpbg/r128x-cli-test-progress.zip?dl=0
Let me know if it does solve your issue and doesn't behave badly.
Thank you - it solves my issue quite nicely (but the --no-progress solution I proposed is probably cleaner from a UNIX standpoint, in case someone runs this in scripts, and redirects stderr to a log somewhere.