From: duhas...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 2:53:29 AM UTC-4, Brian Patrie wrote:   
   > duhas...@gmail.com wrote:    
   > > if I download a digitized .WAV file of Curly going Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk, and    
   > > strip the first few bytes of info, will that work?   
   > MS .wav files are RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format)--a structured    
   > resource format similar in concept to a Macintosh or GS/OS resource fork    
   > (but without being a forked file). They can contain all manner of    
   > metadata. So getting the waveform data out of them is not as simple as    
   > truncating a header off of them. You have to find at least the first    
   > WAVE chunk (there can be more than one), and its associated geometry    
   > metadata (sample width, sample rate, etc).   
      
   Has the format changed over the years?  I remember 25 years ago in college   
   downloading .WAV and loading them up in Audiozap or similiar and cutting a   
   little off the front and it playing just fine.  I didn't examine them on a   
   byte level, but regardless,    
   if not loading a .WAV, then a raw sound file over 256 bytes long....   
      
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