maxima analysis of a 'wav' data file



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?
>

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