Re: wavread problems (focusing on this)

[Doug Stewart]

I was going to do some more fixing and then submit it  or join it with 
the other audio read .m file

I will try and do that soon.
Doug Stewart


Marc Vinyes wrote:

> Ok, thank you very much. Now it works fine.
>
> BTW, why the octave-forge doesn't accept your version of wavread.m????
>
> I guess the clue is in:
> < tmpi = fread(fpi,1,'int32')
> < ###################### changed a 2 to nchans
> < ##if (tmpi != nchans*srate)
> < ##  error(sprintf('*** %d bytes per second looks wrong. Expect %d', 
> tmpi,2*srate));
> < ## end
>
> Also, I can't understand why wavread doesn't output "file not found"
> instead of "error: fread: invalid stream number = -1" which is rather
> confusing for beginners like me...
> I guess this can be achieved only adding a line of code...
>
> When I see this little tricks, I start worrying about the reliability and
> usability of octave-forge code... It's worth starting to use it in a
> serious work? What do you think? (question to more advanced octave users).
>
>  
>
> > Marc Vinyes wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I am working in some audio processing programs which require high
> > > efficiency in large-scale minimization problems. I have some issues
> > > which
> > > keep me from starting to use Octave...
> > >
> > > * I started working with Matlab because the octave-forge wavread.m
> > > function fails to read some wav files. Do you know if there's some
> > > work to
> > > fix this or already fixed in another version?
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > You can try my ver of waveread:
> >
> >
> > http://dougs.homeip.net/octave/wavread.m
> >
> > doug stewart
> >
> >    



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