On Wed, 19 May 2004 00:25:30 +0200 Fons Adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Erik, thanks for your response. > > I had a look at the libsndfile formats matrix, and of course there's > WAV, but I didn't see WAV-EX. The matrix is probably just a little out of date :-). > Do you mean libsndile *does* support WAV-EX ? Yes, read and write although it probably requires a little more testing. > That would solve at least part of the problem. It's not > clear to me what is the difference between the two, maybe you could > explain. Its really just some very minor additional fields in the header. If the software is clever enought to skip over the garbage, and deal with a slight variation in the 'fmt ' chunk, a standard WAV file reader should work perfectly. AFAIAC, it almost doesn't justify its own format :-). > > Colonisation of the windows world by Free Software is very definitely > > on topic :-). > > Being on both the LAD and the Surround Sound lists (the latter being > dominated by Windoze & MAC), I'm quite often exposed to a culture shock. Yep, I know all about that. > And apart from the colonisation effort, I would really like to obtain > Angelo's recordings :-). The WAV vs. WAV-EX problem seems to return > quite often on the sursound list - apparently most of the windows tools > support one but not the other. Most of the windows programs have their own WAV file I/O stuff and most are far less robust than libsndfile. > I'm amazed by the way windows users > seem to be locked in by their tools. Angelo Farina has written some > very interesting and not at all trivial software for acoustic analysis > for windows, but a simple format conversion seems to be a problem... Suggest that he use libsndfile for file I/O :-). Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ A good debugger is no substitue for a good test suite.
