Re: [sc-users] [ot] new 24-bit wav file format

[Erik de Castro Lopo <sc-erikd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Akbari wrote:

> 
> On Sep 6, 2005, at 5:38 AM, contact@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > for example peak.
> 
> Yes, I noticed that as well.
> 
> What advantages exist to using this format instead of chunk size of 4 
> bytes and a typical frames count ?

There is no advantage, the makers of the device in question had
a somewhat odd interpretation of the way to construct a WAV file.

Any well written WAV file parser should have dealt with this correctly.

> Is SuperCollider's parser affected by this in any way, for example 
> loading these type of files into teh buffers ??

SuperCollider uses libsndfile and libsndfile works correctly.

Erik
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