Linux and AudioClips

[Mark Smith]

In AIF files, the sample rate is stored as a 10 byte ieee floating  
point number - this gave me all sorts of trouble when I was making my  
audio waveform component.

Being a bit of a dunce when it comes to binary bit-twiddling, I  
eventually opened a 'silver support incident' (ie paid for), and Mark  
Waddingham came up with a couple of excellent functions for encoding/ 
decoding such numbers.

I posted the functions  to the list back in January. If you look at  
them, you can see that they are fairly complicated, and so fairly  
easy to screw up.

I wonder if the UBUNTU aif code for reading these 10 byte numbers is  
buggy, producing a number 2 x  what it should be?

Best,

Mark

On 29 May 2006, at 06:12, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> Why on earth does UBUNTU need standard files saved at half speed?  
> Major bug - and that means the top sampling rate would be half as  
> well. Wouldn't sound as good.