On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:27:32 -0700 "thewade" pdman@aproximation.org wrote:

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hello,

I have been asking that the developers of PD help me by repairing the wave file read and write objects in the 64-bit environment as the headers of the PD written files are all messed up, and PD cant read in wav files without the user having to overide the headers. I am patient an hopefully something will happen there soon.

How about replacing the current WAV read/write objects with a wrapper around the libsndfile routines. This will allow you to read and write much more than just WAV files, the code works with either endian-ness and works on 64 bit systems.

libsndfile is already used for file I/O in SuperCollider and I believe John ffitch (spelling?) is also working on using in Csound.

Erik

Is this the way writeanysf~ works? What package is that object in?

I learned how to repair the wav file headers from the linux-audio-users list: remove all the data leading up to the 'data' text in the wav file, then run: sox -t raw -r 48000 -swc2 broken-wave.raw corrected.wav

That worked, but in order to fix my source can you tell me how to see data in the wav files raw so I can do a diff and see what is different? I used vi to delete the header info for the repair, but all data that wasnt ascii just showed up as ^@.

Thanks for the help! -thewade