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Re: .WAV file headers

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  • Subject: [mg52576] Re: .WAV file headers
  • From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 03:53:28 -0500 (EST)
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  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

John Reed wrote:
> Is there a way to extract the information from wave file headers in 
> Mathematica?  The header is the first 11 words of the wave file and consists 
> of 4 byte ASCII words and 4 byte integers encoded as ASCII strings.  I need 
> the integers from header words 7 (samples/second), 9 (two 2 byte words, 
> bytes/sample and bits/sample) , and 11 (number of bytes in the file).
> 
> John Reed 
> 
Hi,

At 5.1 you have fast binary I/O - so since you know exactly what 
information you want, it should be very easy using the new BinaryRead 
function.

David Bailey


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