Hi, sorry for that! There should be 9 non-zero channels. It seems Winfried and I we were so pleased about the nice "compression" that we did not check the compressed file... we will fix this.
Jörn is right: the file is for radiation synthesis using compact circular loudspeaker arrays or wave-field synthesis (cf. e.g. Etienne Corteel's paper on that). Best regards Franz On Sunday 13 February 2011 05:02:35 Eric Benjamin wrote: > I was recently perusing the Ambisonics 2010 Symposium web site and came > across the pages devoted to a streaming concert. The audio (4th order > Ambisonics) is available as a downloadable Ogg Vorbis file: > > http://ambisonics.iem.at/xchange/ambisonicssymposium_stream/concert-ambison > ics-recording-ogg/at_download/file > > > I downloaded the file and then spent most of the night trying to play it. > I downloaded more than a dozen Ogg players and converters and almost all > of them choked on the stream. I did find two ways to decode the file, one > of them being the latest version of Audacity and the other being an add-in > filter file for Cool Edit. Both of these agree that the file has nine > channels, but 6 of them are empty. Not a satisfactory experience! Either > the decoders are broken or the file is. > > Have any of you been able to successfully decode this file? > > Eric Benjamin > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -- Dr Franz Zotter http://iem.at/Members/zotter phone: +43 316 389 3382 +43 650 9688373 Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics University of Music and Performing Arts Graz Inffeldgasse 10/3 8010 Graz, Austria _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
