On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

So it seems that [wavinfo] from ext13 is broken on Darwin/MacOS X, which sucks for me since its a key part of a project I am working on and I just bought a new PowerBook. When I run the help patch, and open a file with 116736 samples 1 channel 16-bit 44100 rate [wavinfo] says: 72.0059 samples 256 channels 4096-bit 1.15212e+09 rate Does it work for anyone else? I am going to take a look at it when I get a chance, but I just thought I'd run it by the list to see if anyone has any ideas.

This is a byte order problem.

1.15212e+09 is 1152120000 which is probably 1152122880 rounded, which is hex "44 ac 00 00"

44100 is hex "00 00 ac 44"

this is because the program assumes that the CPU reads a 4-byte number like a pentium would, but a powerpc is the other way around.

channels and bits fit that pattern, but the number of samples looks weirder though it's probably just a less-obvious manifestation of the same problem.

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