[SoX-users] New file format? (RF64)

[Kevin C. <ke...@do...>]

Does anyone know if there might be plans to add the RF64 file format 
to the ever capable SoX?

Curiously, Kevin....


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Kevin

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> The next release of ardour (0.99.3) will be using the latest
> libsndfile which will allow you to at least import ardour's
> native files.  As for other apps, you are probably out of luck
> trying to get them to recognize the native files.  You will
> to have to export anything you want to use outside of the
> software.  We are planning to change our native file formats in
> ardour2, so the problem will likely go away then also.

... except that we plan to use an even more obscure "standard" :)

     http://www.sr.se/utveckling/tu/bwf/prog/RF_64v1_4.pdf

this is actually a pretty nice format: it looks like regular
WAVE if the file size fits within the limits of WAVE (and the
application reading it obeys the rule that you ignore chunks you
don't understand). then if the file gets too large, it becomes a
new type of file (assuming the application reading it understands
a size field of -1 in the "normal" WAVE fmt chunk).

its still under discussion.

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