multiple problems with audio toolbox

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

It appears to me that audio toolbox fell out of sync with recent octave.
(I am using octave-2.1.45 and octave-forge-2003.02.23.)
It all started with a 'chirp' -- trying an example from 'help chirp' results in
error:

octave:31> soundsc(chirp([0:1/8000:5], 200, 2, 500, "logarithmic"),8000);
sox: Failed reading -: Did not detect valid Sun/NeXT/DEC magic number in header.
octave:32>
...
Did some reading and trying 'auload', 'sound' etc... Nothing seems to work
quite right.
I used yahoo2.au from j2sdk1.4.1_01 and music_menu.wav from Chromium (this is
a linux game):

address@hidden t4c-8]$ file music_menu.wav
music_menu.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, 
mono 22050 Hz
address@hidden t4c-8]$ file yahoo2.au
yahoo2.au: Sun/NeXT audio data: 8-bit ISDN u-law, mono, 8000 Hz
('play' at the bash prompt plays both files OK)

In 'help auload' there is an example:

   [x, fs] = auload(file_in_loadpath("sample.wav"));
   auplot(x,fs);

First of all, 'file_in_loadpath' now wants at least two arguments: LOADPATH and 
FILE.
(Similar problem with demo in soundsc.m file). Modified the line accordingly:

octave:34> [x,fs]=auload(file_in_path(".","music_menu.wav"));
octave:35> soundsc(x,fs);
sox: Failed reading -: Did not detect valid Sun/NeXT/DEC magic number in header.
octave:36> [x,fs]=auload(file_in_path(".","yahoo2.au"));
octave:37> soundsc(x,fs);
sox: Failed reading -: Did not detect valid Sun/NeXT/DEC magic number in header.

Am I missing something?

Sincerely,

Dmitri.



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