[LAD] Fwd: AES69-2015 standard for file exchange - Spatial acoustic data file format

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 05:16:45PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:

> This was just announced on sursound. Might be worthwhile to adopt
> for anyone working with spatial audio datasets and files...
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> ... 
> We are pleased to announce the recent publication of the AES69-2015
> standard for file exchange - Spatial acoustic data file format. See
> also the AES press release at http://www.aes.org/press/?ID=293
> <http://www.aes.org/press/?ID=293>
> ...
> Open source application-programming interfaces (API) for Matlab,
> Octave, and C++ are available online at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sofacoustics/
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/sofacoustics/>

Only MatLab/Octave seems to be provided there, but since the
SOFA format is based on netCDF (a file format for storing array-
like data, including array shapes, dimension names, units and 
other metadata).

Existing libraries for netCDF will probably do the job, but a
'convenience layer' knowing the exact SOFA formats would probably
simplify things.

Numerical Python already has a netCDF module, so probably some
day I will add support for this in pyjacktools.

Ciao,

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