14 Feb
2004
14 Feb
'04
8:38 p.m.
Hello,
I realize this is a bit belated for the thread, but there are such an
audio application to convert between file formats. I admit that I
haven't used any of them, so bear in mind that I cannot vouch for the
effectiveness of any of these applications.
SoX
The Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utils. It can convert audio
files to other popular audio file types and also apply sound effects and
filters during the conversion.
GNUShoes
A wrapper for the SoX audio utility. Written in Perl for Linux and
Win32, GNU/Shoes aids the tedious process of converting large numbers of
audio files, and will soon provide Jabber messages to notify the user
that a batch is complete.
There are also a few front-end listed on the site as well.
christopher
Note: All of this information was taken directly from the SourceForge.net.
Lance Blisters wrote:
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
>Quite how you determine the format of the .raw file
is beyond me -
>anybody?!
>
>
.raw files don't have any header, so you have to guess. (The sample
format is almost always S16_LE, but for the number of channels (mostly
1 or 2) or the sample rate, you have to try until it doesn't sound too
bad. ;-)