Wave Utilities
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This package contains three programs for dealing with WAVE format audio files:
- SimplifyWave
- The standard permits WAVE format audio files to contain a variety of chunks,
such as playlists, cue lists, and padding. A fair amount of software, however, is unable
to parse such complex files. This program converts complex WAVE files into the
simplest standard-conforming format by stripping out everything other than the
obligatory format chunk and the first data chunk. Messages are printed indicating
what chunks have been removed.
- RepairWave
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Some software generates non-conformant files that purport to be WAVE files.
They contain a WAVE header but lack the obligatory data chunk id and size
information. The audio data immediately follows the header.
This program inserts the missing data chunk id and size information and
updates the WAVE chunk size information in the header to reflect this.
- InfoWave
- Extracts information from a RIFF/WAV or RIFX/WAV file and reports on the
contents of the file. It shows the size, type, and location of each chunk
and gives the encoding of the audio data, its sampling rate, resolution, number
of channels and other information. Typical output looks like this:
0: RIFF identifier.
4: chunk size = 38,642 bytes.
8: WAV identifier.
12: format chunk identifier
16: format chunk size = 18 bytes.
20: data format: PCM.
22: one channel (mono).
24: Sampling Rate = 11,025 samples per second.
28: Average Data Rate = 11,025 bytes per second.
32: Bytes_Per_Sample value of 1 indicates 8-bit mono
34: Bits_Per_Sample = 8.
36: chunk id
40: chunk length
44: chunk of type fact (standard) length 4 bytes
48: chunk id
52: chunk length
56: chunk of type data (standard) length 38,591 bytes
amounting to 0 minutes and 3.5 seconds
These programs were originally called SimplifyWav, wavrepair, and wavinfo.
waveutils-1.19.tar.gz
waveutils-1.19.tar.bz2
waveutils-1.19.zip
A port for MorphOS is available
here.
1.20
- Fixed a bug that on some newer hardware caused InfoWave to
fail to detect the data chunk even though it was present.
1.19
- Fixed the handling of extra parameters in the format chunk in all three programs.
It should now work properly both for non-PCM data and for PCM
data where, contrary to the standard as I understand it, an
extra parameter length of 0 is explicitly given.
- Fixed a bug in SimplifyWave that under certain circumstances caused no data to be written out.
- The license is now GPL version 3.
1.18
- The programs have been adapted to run correctly on 64 bit architectures as well as 32 bit
architectures.
- The programs should now compile on systems whose printf does not support
thousands separators.
1.17
- All three programs now take into account the data padding byte required
in certain cases by the standard. (This situation virtually never arises for phonetic
research data, which is almost always 16-bit PCM - it can only arise when using
8-bit audio or certain types of lossy compression - so I hadn't paid attention to it.)
- The package is now configured by the GNU autoconf system.
- The usage, version, and copyright messages have been updated.
No bugs are known.
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