On Fri, 02 Jun, 2006 at 12:11PM +0200, Asbj?rn S?b? spake thus: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:45:36PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > > I need to programatically pad a wav file with x frames of silence. I > > figure the best way of doing is to generate a wav file containing x > > frames of silence and concatenate the generated file with the > > original. Problem is I don't know how to generate the silence. > > Read the wave file into octave (wavread()). > Generate all the zeros you want (zeros()). > Append the the zeros to the original. > Write the wave file out again (wavwrtie()). > > > > The method I'm using now feels kind of backwards. I generate two sine > > waves that are phase shifted in relation to one another and then I mix > > them so that they cancel one another out. > > If you can generate a sine wave, why not generate one with amplitude > zero? Maybe that particular kind of silence is copyrighted? If only that quip wasn't inspired by fact. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2276621.stm > Asbj?rn > >
