OGGSILENCE(1)

🎀 OGGSILENCE(1) — bestie's guide to making silence ✨

okay so this is the manual page for oggSilence, part of the User Manuals crew, and it does exactly one (1) thing and does it flawlessly: it makes you a vorbis file full of nothing. beautiful, gorgeous, silent nothing. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

oggSilence — creates a silence period in vorbis format 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

oggSilence [options] outfile.ogg

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

no cap, here's the whole vibe: oggSilence creates a vorbis file that contains a stretch of silence, and the length of that silence is whatever you set with the -l option. that's it. that's the function. and honestly? iconic. 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -l — the duration of the silence, in ms. Default: 60000

Example: -l 5000

• -r — the sample rate of the output file, in Hz. Default: 44100

Example: -r 16000

• -d — the data rate of the silence file, in bit/s. Default: 64000

Example: -d 64000

• -n — the number of output channels. Default: 2

Example: -n 2

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here's what it looks like in the wild, fr fr:

oggSilence -d 32000 -r 16000 -n 2 -l 10000 silence.ogg

look at her go 💫 ten whole seconds of nothing, at 32000 bit/s, 16000 Hz, stereo. main character energy, but make it quiet. 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Joern Seger <yorn at gmx dot net> — we love and respect the legend 🫡

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole ogg family, go give them a visit:

• oggCut(1)
• oggCat(1)
• oggJoin(1)
• oggSplit(1)
• oggTranscode(1)
• oggSlideshow(1)
• oggThumb(1)

okay bestie that's the whole page 💖 this one shipped on Linux back in JAN 2010, and yeah — that's genuinely the entire version history vibe we're working with. periodt. 🎀✨