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- From: gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: A Question About Audio Files
- Message-ID: <34641@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 10:42:39 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- In article <1gghnmINNcrd@tamsun.tamu.edu>, n102ef@tamuts.tamu.edu (Ming
- Niu) writes:
- |> Hello! I am using SGI Indigo to analyse
- |> various sound. I know AIFF is a standard
- |> file format for an audio file.
- |>
- |> From the standard audio file, how can I
- |> get the amplitude of the sound within?
-
- Hard to figure out your mission. If you want to edit waveforms, try
- soundeditor from the 4.0.5E (probably a new letter H?, by now) release.
- Soundeditor is a graphical waveform editing application.
-
- |> After decoding, one should have a sequence
- |> of integers or floating points(I am not sure)
- |> which represent the amplitudes of the sound
- |> wave in a period of time. If the sampling
- |> rate is 44.1KHz, that means there are 44,100
- |> integers or floating points.
-
- If you intend to write your own processing utilities, you need the Audio
- File library, found in the Digital Media Develeper's package. In
- /usr/people/4Dgifts/libaudiofile, you will find some code that
- reads/writes AIFF-C file header info and audio data from files.
-
- You may choose to read integers or floating point numbers from the file.
- The Audio File library will perform the necessary conversions upon
- proper configuration.
-
- If you are interested in the AIFF-C specification, ftp the file
- aiff-c.9.26.91.ps from directory sgi at ftp site sgi.com.
-
- If you have any other questions, please post them to this newsgroup.
-