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Write 2-channel array of shorts to WAV file

I have 2 arrays of shorts containing musical data, one for each channel, and I need the simplest Java method/library possible to write them to a WAV file without the fuss with headers. Does anyone know of such a method/library?

Java Sound can write WAV files. You may find what you are looking for here:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/sound/programmer_guide/chapter7.html#a114602
Not sure if it takes shorts as I have only used it to playback files not save them.

Reading and editing .wav (or flac) details in Java

I have tons of ripped .wav files (I'm ready to convert them into flacs if it's easier) which details I want to insert in a MySQL database. When I right click the .wav files in Windows Explorer (not the browser) and select Properties -> Details I can see some details about the song. For example the artist, genre and duration. How can I read and edit these details in Java?

To get durration information, see this link: Java - reading, manipulating and writing WAV files
Essentially, a WAV file is broken up into chunks, which either contain audio data, or describe the audio data in some way, or provide information about it. If the reader doesn't understand one of those chunks it is able to skip it, which allows placing a lot of different kinds of information in the file. One of those chunks contains information like the samplerate, number of channels and total number of sample frames, from which you can calculate the length.
For artist, genre and so on... well there's no standard chunk for that, so if that's really in the file, and not in the windows db somewhere, it's probably stored in ID3 tags embedded in the WAV. I don't know for sure what the chunkID is for ID3, but it's probably "id3 ", or "ID3 " (including the space). You coud probably figure this out by searching for strings of length 4 or more in the file -- usually data chunks are in the beginning and audio is at the end. (on unix/macos I would use the "strings" command, maybe with "head") ID3 tags are standard for MP3, and you can figure out how to parse them by googling. To get to them, you'll need to understand WAV files first, at least enough to know what chunks are, chunkIds, how to skip chunks you don't care about, and so on.
I don't know of a library that will read ID3 tags in WAV files in Java, so you'll either have to write one, or wrap one written in another language. I suspect libsndfile will work, but it doesn't have an MP3 reader, so maybe not. You could also try SOX. You can also check out http://javamusictag.sourceforge.net/ which I've never used, but it came up in a search.
good luck!

I ended up converting them into flac files and using JAudiotagger. Thanks for the responses, this time I ended up this way.
http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/

Reading wav file in Java

I want to read wav files in Java and I am going to classify them with K-means.
How can I read wav files in Java and assign them into an array or something like that(you can suggest ideas for it) to classify them?
EDIT: I want to use APIs for reading wav files and for K-means.

The official Java Sound Programmer Guide walks through reading and writing audio files.
This article by A Greensted: Reading and Writing Wav Files in java should be helpful. The WavFile class is very useful and it can be tweaked to return the entire data array instead of buffered fragments.

Equivalent to matlab's wavread function:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120531113946/http://www.builogic.com/java/javasound-read-write.html

You could read the sound files using javax sound library and FileInputStream
(found a nice example here)
and treat the wave files as a vector of bits (0,1) or bytes.. using multiple sequence alignment (Wiki) create a distance matrix between every stream of bits/bytes, and from there, the clustering should be straight forward.
The Problem is, that this method is very sensitive to noise, etc, but it is worth a shot...

Not sure if this will help someone. Java JDK already provides AudioSystem class.
I used this as part of my tests to check generated WAV properties,
AudioFileFormat audioFileFormat = AudioSystem.getAudioFileFormat(new File(response.get()));
assertEquals(1, audioFileFormat.getFormat().getChannels());
assertEquals(8000.0, audioFileFormat.getFormat().getSampleRate(), 0.0f);
assertEquals(8, audioFileFormat.getFormat().getSampleSizeInBits());

Convert Data to sound and back

Are there libraries out there that can convert data (text files, etc) to sound and back to the original data?
The sound can be transmitted any medium I wish, whether radio, etc. I just need to store data in sound files.
Scenario:
step1: Convert a .docx file with embedded images to .wav.
step2: Send over a radio wave.
step3: Convert this .wav back to the .docx file with the embedded images.
This concept can be applied to any data.
Technology:
.net or java

I think the medium is important, as are other factors such as the size of the files and the transmission time available. A simple algorithm would be to convert your files to text (UUENCODE should do that trick) then convert to morse code : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/morsecode.aspx
Morse gives you a simple alphabet able to survive transmission over a fairly noisy radio channel.
If your carrier is cleaner a conversion of your UUEncoded file into a series of frequencies one per character would probably also work, and be easy enough to decode at the other end, Frequency Analyzer in C#

You could try to use the magnetic card technology for your files, I'm also trying to do this on android.
Any data can be converted to byte into a string of characters it very possible with java and android.
then use the Encoding mechanism of Magnetic Cards API to encode the string to sound. Then you can just use the vice versa, convert the sound into string convert string into byte and save the data. It's just it takes time to convert both ways but it is feasible, I'm trying to do this so that any one with unlimited voice connection can transfer files or in the future browse the internet just through calling the other number. I hope I gave you some idea.

The problem is that the data in a word document doesn't necessarily make decent sound. If you pick a 1.8kHz carrier and use the binary contents of the word document to modulate the volume or the frequency (AM or FM) the result will be messy and hardly to decode.
But if you save the document as a bitmap, you can use the pixel values to modulate the volume of the carrier wave.
We've been sending pictures (not just black/white but greyscale and color (three different separations of the image, r, g and b) over phonelines using this method for many years before modems and the internet took off.
The fun part is that you can broadcast data this way. The sound can be received by more than one receiver at the same time. There's no error correction, but as you deal with visual data, you don't have to worry about a few pixels getting lost. It's similar to old fax protocols.

Does the audio file need to be convertible using lossy compressors (MP3 etc.)? If not, you can just add a WAV container around any binary data and you'll be fine. Otherwise it gets more difficult, and you need to ensure that the audio is audible (in a reasonable frequency range when played) and be tolerant enough on the frequency detection to match the output of lossy codecs.

Best way is to convert the audio file into binary and store in a file type you specify.
Try out the AudioInputStream Class in Java

To give what I think is a better response to all of the above, have a look at packet radio and the various bits that correspond to it AX.25 is a good example and there are a number of implementations for it. POCSAG is also another good implementation. Both have libraries available for many different languages and have been around for quite a long time.
Other example include things like WEFAX (weather fax), HFFax, SSTV (slow scan tv), etc.
You can think of them all as being similar to the old school phone line modem type encoders and decoders that run around the 300-2400baud

How to split a wav file into smaller chunks using Java?

I have a very huge WAV file, about 100MB in size. I would like to use Java to read this wav file and split it into smaller chunks for every 2 seconds of audio.
Is it possible to do this in Java? Could you please suggest me an API with which I can achieve it?
Thanks in advance,
Snehal

You can use AudioInputStream and its AudioFileFormat member (which contains an AudioFormat instance) to know what to write (format, sample rate), you can use AudioSystem to write it.
Based on the sample rate of the format you can find out how many bytes of audio are 2 seconds, and go on a loop of reading that many bytes from the AudioInputStream, writing them to a new file.

You could also look up the specification for a wav file which is really basic and simple.
And then binary read the file, and save it again in smaller bits.
I think it's a better learning experience to do it this way instead of always relying on libraries.

If you don't care about the longevity of your code, then Quicktime For Java is a good bet for media. It runs on Windows and Mac and will read and write pretty much any audio (and video) format. The downside is that Apple have not supported it for years, so while it still works, you're investing in a dying technology.