4 Sep
2023
4 Sep
'23
12:52 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 12:33:42 +0200
Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 10:35:02AM +0100, Will Godfrey
wrote:
Thanks Fons - didn't think of that!
00000000 52 49 46 46 3c b7 1f 04 57 41 56 45 66 6d 74 20 |RIFF<...WAVEfmt |
00000000 52 49 46 46 3c b7 1f 04 57 41 56 45 66 6d 74 20 |RIFF<...WAVEfmt |
00000010 10 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 80 bb 00 00 00 65 04 00 |.............e..|
00000010 10 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 80 bb 00 00 00 65 04 00 |.............e..|
00000020 06 00 18 00 64 61 74 61 cc b5 1f 04 00 00 00 ff |....data........|
00000020 06 00 18 00 64 61 74 61 cc b5 1f 04 00 00 00 ff |....data........|
00000030 ff ff 00 00 00 ff ff ff 00 00 00 ff ff ff 00 00 |................|
So they're marked (wrongly?) as WAVE.
The fact they contain the metadata might suggest they are actually WAVEX
However this doesn't show in a readable form in the first 1024 bytes.
--
Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'}
https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/
http://yoshimi.github.io
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
Can anyone suggest a program that can edit
metadata in 24bit wav files.
It seems Picard treats these as faulty - all the music players have no problems.
I assume that 'metadata' refers to the header.
No idea if the problem is with Picard or the files, but I suspect
something along these lines:
- There are (at least) two formats known as .wav files: WAV and
WAVEX.
- The original WAV header format was badly designed and resulted in
lots of proprietary extensions and 'improvements'.
- Many years ago M$ tried to clean up the messs by creating the
WAVEX format.
- From then on, according to M$ standards, anything using more than
2 channels or 16 bits MUST use the WAVEX format.
I suspect you could have some 24-bit files using the WAV format which
are technically 'defect'. There is still software around creating those.
The way to find out is to look at an hex dump of the header. Maybe you
could post one - the first 256 bytes will do.
Ciao,