reading audio

reading audio

[Vu Ngoc San]

Hello

is there a library available for reading wav files in ocaml and, say,
convert it to a bigarray or something equivalent ?

I had a look at sdl_mixer, which does read wav files, but it seems that
you don't have physical accesss to the audio if you wanted to modifiy it
in memory. (or I missed something). All you can do is play/mix it. I
guess it should not be too hard to look at the C code and come up with a
nice ocaml interface for converting the audio chunk into a bigarray, but
that's beyond my capabilities.

I looked at the list archive and back in 2003 some people had similar
whishes. Maybe this have evolved ?

Thanks for you help.


San

Re: [Caml-list] reading audio

[David Baelde]

Hi,

It would be nice to have a binding of libsndfile for that kind of
purpose. Unfortunately I don't think we have one yet.

For what it's worth, there is a Wav module at
<https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/savonet/trunk/liquidsoap/src/tools/>.
Simply remove the conversion of format to Mixer.format and there
shouldn't be any external dependency left.

I know that it doesn't handle some formats, but .. it's good enough
for us most of the time. If anybody does ocaml-libsndfile I'd be happy
to use it instead.

Cheers.
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Re: [Caml-list] reading audio

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

David Baelde wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It would be nice to have a binding of libsndfile for that kind of
> purpose. Unfortunately I don't think we have one yet.

Since I (the main author of libsndfile) is also an Ocaml user
I really should get around to doing that.

However, the Ocaml version would not ba able to have functions
for reading shorts or ints, just a function for reading doubles
(as Ocaml floats). Same for the write side.

libsndfile would however do the conversion between the ocaml 
level floats at whatever the disk file format required.

Erik
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Re: [Caml-list] reading audio

[Vu Ngoc San]

Erik de Castro Lopo a écrit :
> David Baelde wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> It would be nice to have a binding of libsndfile for that kind of
>> purpose. Unfortunately I don't think we have one yet.
> 
> Since I (the main author of libsndfile) is also an Ocaml user
> I really should get around to doing that.




That would be great. I am in fact teaching some signal processing, and
showing off my demos using ocaml instead of (****bad***) would be wonderful.

San

Re: [Caml-list] reading audio

[Vu Ngoc San]

> For what it's worth, there is a Wav module at
> <https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/savonet/trunk/liquidsoap/src/tools/>.


Great. This looks like what I need.

San

Re: [Caml-list] reading audio

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:19:34AM +0100, Vu Ngoc San wrote:
> is there a library available for reading wav files in ocaml and, say,
> convert it to a bigarray or something equivalent ?

The WAV format is pretty simple.  Have you tried just mapping the
file?  You'll need to ignore the first "data samples" covering the
first 44 bytes of the file (the header).

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/

Rich.

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Re: [Caml-list] reading audio

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Richard Jones wrote:

> The WAV format is pretty simple.  Have you tried just mapping the
> file?  You'll need to ignore the first "data samples" covering the
> first 44 bytes of the file (the header).
> 
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/

Yes, the most common WAV files are easy to parse but there are
a gazzillion extensions and corner cases to take care of.

So *please* don't lead people down that path, bcause next thing
they will be writting WAV files as well and they will make
a mistake and not follow the spec (so called) correctly and their
software will become popular and I (as the author of libsndfile)
will have to add yet another hack to work around someone else's
broken WAV file (libsndfile is already full of these).

I'm busy ATM, but give me a couple of weeks and I will make an
ocaml-libsndfile.

Erik
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Re: [Caml-list] reading audio

[Eric Cooper]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:19:34AM +0100, Vu Ngoc San wrote:
> is there a library available for reading wav files in ocaml and, say,
> convert it to a bigarray or something equivalent ?

I wrote one a few years ago as part of a little application to display
WAV files graphically:
    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ecc/gwav.tar.gz

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