On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Edwin Woollett <woollett at charter.net>wrote:
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> I am not familar with *.wav files: is it a text file,
> and how is the data coded, etc?
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It's a binary file format for storing audio data:
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/
It's fairly easy to read in the simplest wav file containing pcm samples.
The more complicated ones with codecs are, obviously, more complicated.
Ray