Re: [Caml-list] Operators for Int64 and Int32

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Michał Maciejewski wrote:

> I'm quite new to OCaml but recently I had to write a wave file parsing
> application.

If you need to read WAV files, why not just use libsndfile:

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/

and the libsndfile Ocaml wrapper:

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/tmp/libsndfile-ocaml-20071120-0622.tgz

It's basically working, but there might still be some slight
API changes.

The reason I suggest this is that WAV file parsing is probably
much, much harder than you immagine. Here's why:

 - WAV files allow the audio data to be encoded in dozens of
   different formants. Supporting even a small subset of them
   is a PITA.
 - There are numerous programs that create malformed files.
   Adding workarounds to these is a lot of work.
 - libsndfile already supports a whole bunch of other file
   formats.

Erik
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