Hi Everyone,

this is my first post, I searched the forum but couldn't find the info I needed and was wondering if anyone had any insight into whats going on.

Basically I have a pd script I'm using that records a wav file to my hard drive, when I import that wav file into this other program I'm using, I get the following data but no playback.

BROKEN:
format: Unknown
channels: 2
sampleRate: 44100
bitRateUpper: 44100
bitRateLower: 44100
bitRateNominal: 0
blockAlign: 8
bitsPerSample: 32
sampleMultiplier: 1
commentList:
commentTable:

When I take that same file into an audio editor and export it as a wav i get the following data and the wav but with playback

WORKS:
format: PCM
channels: 2
sampleRate: 44100
bitRateUpper: 22050
bitRateLower: 22050
bitRateNominal: 0
blockAlign: 4
bitsPerSample: 16
sampleMultiplier: 1
commentList:
commentTable:

So my question is if writesf is the best way to write wav files to the harddrive? Also is there a way for me to set some parameters so that my broken wav file has the same parameters as my working wav ( i.e. format to PCM )?

thanks

Do you need 32-bit files? I'm not 100% on this, but I don't think PCM supports 32-bit floats. I think the format is actually IEEE. My guess is this mysterious other program you are using doesn't support this format. I just rendered a 32-bit file using [writesf~] and it plays back fine in Audacity and even iTunes.

i had to set the bits to 16, finally found out how to do it, thanks for pointing me in the right direction