Re: wavread problems (focusing on this)

[Doug Stewart]

OK I will fix it for this one.


I would stay with Octave.
Doug Stewart


Marc Vinyes wrote:

> > I was going to do some more fixing and then submit it  or join it with
> > the other audio read .m file
> >
> > I will try and do that soon.
> > Doug Stewart
> >    
>
> Nice.
> But I've got some bad news... I was loading more wav files, and I have
> found one file for which wavread fails to read it (your version and the
> orginal one)... so you were right and more bug fixing must be done :O
> I've uploaded the file to:
> http://www.telefonica.net/web2/mrvinyes/fails.wav.zip
>
> Maybe sbdy can find some time to fix it. I'll try it later; too busy now...
> I think we should take a look at the source of programs like rezound,
> which support perfectly all kind of wav's, and the port it to matlab...
>
> MarC
>  
>
> > Marc Vinyes wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Ok, thank you very much. Now it works fine.
> > >
> > > BTW, why the octave-forge doesn't accept your version of wavread.m????
> > >
> > > I guess the clue is in:
> > > < tmpi = fread(fpi,1,'int32')
> > > < ###################### changed a 2 to nchans
> > > < ##if (tmpi != nchans*srate)
> > > < ##  error(sprintf('*** %d bytes per second looks wrong. Expect %d',
> > > tmpi,2*srate));
> > > < ## end
> > >
> > > Also, I can't understand why wavread doesn't output "file not found"
> > > instead of "error: fread: invalid stream number = -1" which is rather
> > > confusing for beginners like me...
> > > I guess this can be achieved only adding a line of code...
> > >
> > > When I see this little tricks, I start worrying about the reliability and
> > > usability of octave-forge code... It's worth starting to use it in a
> > > serious work? What do you think? (question to more advanced octave
> > > users).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Marc Vinyes wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > I am working in some audio processing programs which require high
> > > > > efficiency in large-scale minimization problems. I have some issues
> > > > > which
> > > > > keep me from starting to use Octave...
> > > > >
> > > > > * I started working with Matlab because the octave-forge wavread.m
> > > > > function fails to read some wav files. Do you know if there's some
> > > > > work to
> > > > > fix this or already fixed in another version?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >          
> > > > You can try my ver of waveread:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > http://dougs.homeip.net/octave/wavread.m
> > > >
> > > > doug stewart
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        
> >
> >
> >    
>
>
>  



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