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Re: Simple audio file opening/reading/conversion?
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Re: Simple audio file opening/reading/conversion?


  • Subject: Re: Simple audio file opening/reading/conversion?
  • From: "Sophia Poirier [dfx]" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:35:37 -0500

If you can live with a minimum system requirement of Mac OS X 10.4, the ExtAudioFile API is simpler than using AudioFile and AudioConverter together. Here's a little example snippet from a project of mine (with error handling and such removed for the sake of brevity) that reads an audio file into an AUBufferList:


ExtAudioFileRef audioFileRef = NULL; OSStatus status = ExtAudioFileOpen(&inFileRef, &audioFileRef);

SInt64 audioFileNumFrames = 0;
UInt32 dataSize = sizeof(audioFileNumFrames);
status = ExtAudioFileGetProperty(audioFileRef, kExtAudioFileProperty_FileLengthFrames, &dataSize, &audioFileNumFrames);


AudioStreamBasicDescription audioFileStreamFormat;
dataSize = sizeof(audioFileStreamFormat);
status = ExtAudioFileGetProperty(audioFileRef, kExtAudioFileProperty_FileDataFormat, &dataSize, &audioFileStreamFormat);


CAStreamBasicDescription clientStreamFormat;
clientStreamFormat.SetCanonical (audioFileStreamFormat.mChannelsPerFrame, false);
clientStreamFormat.mSampleRate = audioFileStreamFormat.mSampleRate;
status = ExtAudioFileSetProperty(audioFileRef, kExtAudioFileProperty_ClientDataFormat, sizeof(clientStreamFormat), &clientStreamFormat);


AUBufferList auBufferList;
auBufferList.Allocate(clientStreamFormat, (UInt32)audioFileNumFrames);
AudioBufferList & abl = auBufferList.PrepareBuffer (clientStreamFormat, (UInt32)audioFileNumFrames);
UInt32 audioFileNumFrames_temp = (UInt32)audioFileNumFrames;
status = ExtAudioFileRead(audioFileRef, &audioFileNumFrames_temp, &abl);


status = ExtAudioFileDispose(audioFileRef);
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