I am trying to overlay two files (merge them into one so they plat simultaneously).The options for sox --combine are sequence, concatenate, mix, mix-power, merge, and multiply. I've looked at the docs here and it's not entirely evident which I should use. sequence and concatenate do work when they have different sample rates but it does not overlay them.I am trying to use mix, but it's not allowing me to set the sample rate to 41k (which from my understanding is the correct one for mp3):To precaution against different sample rates, I'm looping through the input files and setting all their sample rates to 41k. I have the following code to do this:sox -r 44.1k input1.mp3 output1.mp3sox -r 44.1k input2.mp3 output2.mp3I get this (it differs between files)sox WARN formats: can't set sample rate 44100; using 24000sox WARN formats: can't set sample rate 44100; using 48000Then when I try and overlay them using the following command:sox --combine mix output1.mp3 output2.mp3 output3.mp3 I see this:sox FAIL sox: Input files must have the same sample-rateI am on Ubuntu 16.04.As a workaround I'm using the ffmpeg command shown here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14498539/how-to-overlay-two-audio-files-using-ffmpegThis is actually fine for me and gets the job done though I would be curious to know why the sox didn't work. 
Can't set mp3 sample rate to 44.1k using sox
ubuntu;audio;sox