carmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I currently just blindly try to launch the decoder for either ogg, speex or >> mp3 in series. I'd like to add flac... > > a simple way - how about assuming files are properly named, eg theres no > files matching *.ogg which are actually .wav format?
Sorry, but this kind of behaviour is way too microsoftian for me. File extensions lie! :-) Besides, yatm should ideally be able to stream data at some point in the future, and streams can be named anything sometimes. > although in the major web browsers a .gif saved with .jpg extension > always loads without error..maybe good to check how xmms or similar > handles this situation.. Yes, I'll look into other audio players sources... >> wondering, is there a reliable way to detect a audio streams file >> format just given some bits of the header? So that I could set the > > InfoAudio ( ftp://ftp.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca//pub/AFsp/AFsp-v8r1.tar.gz ) is quite > useful mainly for all the differing .wav bitrates/formats/endiannesses but > maybe libsndfile already takes care of that.. for a mp3 it just says > "AFfindType - Unsupported audio file type: MPEG-1 Layer III". and it doesnt > even provide that much info for ogg or FLAC.. i still like it though > > it would be great if there was truly one solution to this, on Mac you just > use coreaudio API, on windows, you use ACM codec, but it seems each linux app > has to independently support and depend on flac/ogg/speex/wav/etc libs, ad > nauseum.. Yes, a mega-libsndfile would be very cute. -- CYa, Mario
