Write-Progress displaying outside of console buffer - powershell

Question

I have a script which calls out to an external program (SoX) for each file in a directory. I'm calling Write-Progress before each call to SoX, but the progress bar is pushed off the top of the console buffer by the output of SoX (regardless of the size of the console). Is there anything I can do to avoid this?
Here's the script:
$audioFiles = ls -Exclude *.ps1 | ? { !$_.PSIsContainer }
foreach ($audioFile in $audioFiles)
{
$i++
Write-Progress -Activity "Transforming Audio" -Status $audioFile.Name -PercentComplete (($i / #($audioFiles).length) * 100)
& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\sox-14-4-0\sox.exe' "$audioFile" ('Fast/' + $audioFile.Name) -S -G tempo -s 1.3
}
Write-Progress -Activity "Transforming Audio" -PercentComplete 100 -Completed
[void] [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“System.Windows.Forms”)
[windows.forms.messagebox]::show(“All done!”)

Answer 1

Maybe you can set the same console cursor position before the sox output ?
please try
$audioFiles = ls -Exclude *.ps1 | ? { !$_.PSIsContainer }
foreach ($audioFile in $audioFiles){
$i++
Write-Progress -Activity "Transforming Audio" -Status $audioFile.Name -PercentComplete (($i / #($audioFiles).length) * 100)
# get windows height
$y=[int]($host.ui.rawui.WindowSize.Height -5)
# will set cursor position to bottom of the screen
$Host.UI.RawUI.CursorPosition = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.Coordinates 2,$y
#clear current line
$sbOut = new-object System.Text.Stringbuilder
(0.. $Host.UI.RawUI.WindowSize.Width)|%{$sbOut.append(' ')} |out-Null
write-Host $sbOut.toString() -NoNewline
& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\sox-14-4-0\sox.exe' "$audioFile" ('Fast/' + $audioFile.Name) -S -G tempo -s 1.3
}
Write-Progress -Activity "Transforming Audio" -PercentComplete 100 -Completed
[void] [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“System.Windows.Forms”)
[windows.forms.messagebox]::show(“All done!”)
you could also redirect sox output to a file or if you dont care about sox output just redirect it to out-null :
& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\sox-14-4-0\sox.exe' "$audioFile" ('Fast/' + $audioFile.Name) -S -G tempo -s 1.3 | out-null