[linux-audio-dev] Sound file format detection?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

carmen wrote:

> > I currently just blindly try to launch the decoder for either ogg, speex or
> > mp3 in series. I'd like to add flac...
> 
> a simple way - how about assuming files are properly named, eg theres no files
> matching *.ogg which are actually .wav format?

No, but Ogg is a container format and may contain audio data encoded as 
Vorbis, Speex or Flac.

> it would be great if there was truly one solution to this, on Mac you just
> use coreaudio API, on windows, you use ACM codec, but it seems each linux
> app has to independently support and depend on flac/ogg/speex/wav/etc libs,
> ad nauseum..

Yes, thats braindamaged. However, libsndfile now supports FLAC and work
on Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Speex is underway.

Erik
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