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bug #45490: audiowrite / wavwrite writes 32bit samples as int32 instead of float32

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 08 Jul 2015 06:53:05 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Matlab Compatibility
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Marc René Schädler Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * dev
Operating System:  * Any Fixed Release:  None
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Tue 05 Sep 2017 10:11:35 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Looks good to me, and works, thanks.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Tue 05 Sep 2017 06:05:33 PM UTC, comment #5: 

I went ahead and pushed the patch here (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/d21de523dbce).  I also added some more input validation of the Quality parameter, and added BIST tests for input validation.  Marking as fixed and closing report.

Rik <rik5>
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Fri 01 Sep 2017 11:23:11 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Any action on this bug?  There is a table at https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/audiowrite.html that Octave should follow.  It lists the output format which depends on the file extension ('.wav'), the class of the input, and the number of bits per sample.

I tried


audiowrite ('single32.wav', xs, 8000, 'BitsPerSample', 32)
audiowrite ('int32.wav', xint32, 8000, 'BitsPerSample', 32)


and then in the shell I used 'file' to check the resulting WAV formats.  Both files are


int32.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 32 bit, mono 8000 Hz


It sounded like Mike thought this would be very easy.  I made a stab at it and am attaching the patch to this report.  I also changed the output to PCM32 when Bits Per Sample is 24 for compatibility with Matlab.  I also added a decode for Bits Per Sample == 64 which maps to SF_DOUBLE_FORMAT.


(file #41712)

Rik <rik5>
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Sat 25 Jul 2015 04:56:21 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Confirmed this bug still applies to the current implementation of the wavwrite / audiowrite functions.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/audiowrite.html
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/wavwrite.html

This should be simple to add special cases to audiowrite if the file format is WAV (as we currently do to make 8-bit PCM be unsigned for WAV files).

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Tue 14 Jul 2015 05:37:37 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Can you please try your tests in Octave 4.0? The wavread and wavwrite functions have been completely overhauled in version 4.0. I can't recall the supported PCM sample formats, but it is almost certainly different from 3.8. I'll try and look at this later myself when I get a chance.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member
Tue 14 Jul 2015 05:32:45 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The use of int32 is very uncommon and I wonder if anyone supports it. As long as the behaviour is documented, and it is possible to write a PCM_IEEE_FLOAT file, it is fine. When discussing the RIFF wave format, we should use WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE for anything else than int16 and uint8. This affects wavread, which does not support that format.

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Wed 08 Jul 2015 06:53:05 AM UTC, original submission:  

Matlabs wavwrite seems to write 32bit samples as type 3 normalized floating point.
Octaves wavwrite saves them as int32.

[1] http://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/wavwrite.html

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2017-09-05 rik5 StatusPatch Submitted Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2017-09-01 rik5 Attached File- Added bug45490.cset, #41712
        StatusConfirmed Patch Submitted
    2017-08-21 mtmiller Summarywavwrite writes 32bit samples as int32 instead of float32 audiowrite / wavwrite writes 32bit samples as int32 instead of float32
    2015-07-25 mtmiller StatusNeed Info Confirmed
        Release3.8.2 dev
        Operating SystemGNU/Linux Any
    2015-07-14 mtmiller StatusNone Need Info

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