Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: > <SNIP> >>> Hi Rui, >>> You know me pretty well at this point old friend. I've just a user. >>> Nothing more. I might be a pretty smart user, but I'm just a user. >>> >>> >> oh no. don't take me wrong. i was just in hope that Erik was listening here >> too :) >> > > Me too! > >> >> > <SNIP> >> ok. we already have the "Root note", "Beats", "Meter" and "Tempo" fields in >> sight, which is a fair start imo. > > Well, sndfile-info writes the word 'tempo' but I'm not completely > comfortable that we know where the tempo values are. Both of the > examples I provided say 120BPM. Unfortunately neither loop library is > actually recorded at that tempo! > that is *bad* news :( so the meta-data we get from libsndfile is bogus? i guess we're back to square one (or is it zero?:). >> i'm afraid of what the "??" could mean :) and whether Erik will break or >> change the SFC_GET_LOG_INFO output string layout on any other libsndfile >> release ;) >> > > I'll promise you that "??" means 'I don't know, this is a place holder > for the future', or something like that. Again, this has been at least > 4 years since Erik and I did this because I was living in a different > house and we bought this current house in July, 2004. That said I > think Eirk and I had identified a list of things to at least look for > in the files and some of what's in sndfile-info's output today is just > that list. We still need to find things. > > I feel like I could be of more help if someone trained me to use some > tools. Are there any simple tools for looking at the contents of a > wave file and getting just the header portion? I found hexedit but > there's little contextual info there so I'd need to know more about > wave formats themselves. I'd be happy to take some spare time and look > at files to see if I can find some patterns if I can find some tools > someone like me can use. > we'll have to resort that audio files must be integral in length to ever get some kind of loop auto-fitting ... cyaa -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
