23 Feb
2011
23 Feb
'11
8:02 p.m.
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?
Cheers, -Harry
23 Feb
23 Feb
9:11 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Harry Van Haaren <harryhaaren(a)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.
27 Feb
27 Feb
2:01 p.m.
Hi all,
Do i need to uncompress it before playback or whats
the deal here?
Answering my own question for future readers:
The Wavpack filetype needs to be uncompressed before you can play it back on
most audio players.
From my experience VLC, Audacity, QuodLibet etc all
handle the uncompressed
files fine (normal 4 channel wav) but have difficulties with
the .au
compressed version.
The (linux) command to uncompress a file is as follows:
wvunpack input.ua -o output.wav
Quite simply let wavpack do its job, and play the resulting file in VLC,
trough AmbDec to your speakers... :-)
-Harry
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