SV: [music-dsp] WAV file string format?

[Richard Dobson]

It's funny, I suppose, on first reading, but after that it just gets in 
the way. Really it is better to have a specification that is just that, 
as formal and complete as possible, without this degree of 
personalization. Let everyone have their own opinions, and just present 
the spec. The AIFF spec is not without its absurdities either, but it 
has never been fashionable to bash Apple for that.  But the WAVE spec 
has suffered especially from Chinese whispers over the years, when so 
many people publish a selective and often misleading subset of the whole.

That document also indicates the labl text is null-terminated.

Richard Dobson

Jens Blomquist wrote:
> 
> ...and the url is:
> http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/wave.htm
> 
> /Jens
>  
> 
>>This is the best WAVE file format description I've ever seen.
>>
>>I especially love the section called "A Bastardized Standard".
>>
>>Everyone should read it. 
>>
>>/Jens
>>
>>
>>>Anyone here a WAV file expert?
>>>I'm looking at the spec, and it's showing pascal-format strings, for
>>>example in the Label Chunks.  Are those still used or are 
>>>newer C-style 
>>>strings used?  Any compatibility issues there?
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>
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