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AudioFileWriteBytes() fails with error code -40
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AudioFileWriteBytes() fails with error code -40


  • Subject: AudioFileWriteBytes() fails with error code -40
  • From: Alex Wiltschko <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:34:01 -0400

I'm trying to write raw audio bytes to a file using AudioFileWriteBytes(). I get an error of "-40".

This is a function I'm calling from an NSTimer, after properly initializing the audio file. Here's what I'm doing:

void writeSingleChannelRingBufferDataToFileAsSInt16(AudioFileID audioFileID, AudioConverterRef audioConverter, ringBuffer *rb, SInt16 *holdingBuffer) {
// First, figure out which bits of audio we'll be
// writing to file from the ring buffer

    UInt32 lastFreshSample = rb->lastWrittenIndex;
    OSStatus status;
    int numSamplesToWrite;
    UInt32 numBytesToWrite;


    if (lastFreshSample < rb->lastReadIndex) {
        numSamplesToWrite = kNumPointsInWave + lastFreshSample - rb->lastReadIndex - 1;
    }
    else {
        numSamplesToWrite = lastFreshSample - rb->lastReadIndex;
    }
    numBytesToWrite = numSamplesToWrite*sizeof(SInt16);


// Then I copy the audio data (stored as floats) to a holding buffer (SInt16)
// that will be written directly to the file.
// The copying looks funky because it's from a ring buffer.

    UInt32 buffLen = rb->sizeOfBuffer - 1;
    for (int i=0; i < numSamplesToWrite; ++i) {
        holdingBuffer[i] = rb->data[(i + rb->lastReadIndex) & buffLen];
    }
// Okay, now we actually try to write the audio from the SInt16 buffer "holdingBuffer"
// to the audio file. The NSLog will spit out an error -40,
// but also claims that it's writing bytes. No data is written to file.

    status = AudioFileWriteBytes(audioFileID, NO, 0, &numBytesToWrite, &holdingBuffer);
    rb->lastReadIndex = lastFreshSample;

    NSLog(@"Error = %d, wrote %d bytes", status, numBytesToWrite);

    return;



What is this error -40? By the way, everything works fine if I write straight from the ringBuffer to the file. Of course, when I play the AIF file, it sounds like junk, because I'm writing floats, not SInt16s, but AudioFileWriteBytes doesn't complain. _______________________________________________
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