[LAU] WavPack's Universal Ambisonic playback on linux

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Wed Feb 23 20:11:02 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Harry Van Haaren <harryhaaren at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've downloaded one of the demo recordings for ambisonic playback
> (soundofspace.com/ambisonic_files/41)
> Its a .ua file, which is wavpack's standard ambisonic audio file type..
> AFAIK.
>
> I'm trying to play it back (into AmbDec) but VLC only shows one channel,
> Ardour won't import it, and other players
> that supposedly do support wavpack (QuodLibet) doesn't recognize it at all.
>
> Do i need to uncompress it before playback or whats the deal here?

as far as i can tell libsndfile doesn't handle wavpack format, and you
had that conversation with erik in 2007.


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