Re: [linux-audio-dev] Vsound-like tools for ALSA?

I've also wished for a tool which analyzed raw audio data. Shouldn't be too difficult to try all common formats (word size, signed/unsigned, big/little endian) and measure average volume and continuity to determine which formats yield a reasonable waveform. Tool might fail on samples of white noise, but should easily succeed in 99% of cases. The tool could even try different bit/byte alignments (skipping 0,1,2,...15 bits at the beginning), to recover fragments of files which might not start at an even sample. Number of channels and sampling rate might need to be tuned by hand, but that's a simple matter once the other parameters are correct. Surely this must exist, maybe in the windows or mac universe? -geoff