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RE: Q about WAV format

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 18, 2001
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jstory at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
>   I found a website that describes WAV files.  It tells me everything
> except one little detail that I need to know. The first 43 bytes I can
> ignore except for bytes 10-11 which tell me whether it is mono or 
> stereo.
> What I'm interested in is the bytes from 44 to the end. Each byte is 
> from
> 00 to FF; 00 is negative voltage, FF positive voltage.  My question is: 
> in
> the case of stereo, where is the data for one ear and the data for the
> other ear?  Am I correct in guessing that bytes 44,46,48, etc are for 
> one
> ear, and bytes 45,47,49, etc. are for the other ear?
>   This has nothing to do with Euphoria except that I was considering
> making a program in Euphoria that would modify WAV files.
> 
>        Jerry Story
> 
> 
> 
Hello there,

I'm pretty sure the bytes alternate, L,R,L,R, etc.
One way to test this is to simply make a stereo
wave file with both channels recording from the same mic.
Save the file and look at the bytes with a hex editor.

Have fun with it.
--Al