Re: wavewrite / wavread and 32bit float wav file

[Jason Palmer]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Rick T <address@hidden> wrote:
> Greetings All
>
> I was reading some of the specifications for waveread and wavewrite (in
> octave) and it says the maximum is 16bit sound files.  Is there another
> function to get octave to read and write 32 bit float wave files?  PS I'm
> using octave 3.2.4 (from the repos) and ubuntu 12.04
>
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/octave/function/wavwrite.html
>
> Thanks
>

The wavread and wavwrite functions in octave 3.6.2 (the latest
release) handle 8, 16, 32, and 64 bits per sample. I'm not sure if
they will work in 3.2.4, but you can download the current functions
from the repo here:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/cef24482e004/scripts/audio
. (Click the function you want, and then click 'raw' to get the bare
file.)

Hope it helps,
Jason Palmer