On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:46:38 -0800, Lance Blisters wrote:
    > 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.  ;-) 
 
   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 
 
Audacity had/has a raw importer which showwed a small graph of the
waveform and you could try different combos.
- Steve