Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-29 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2022-05-25, Fons Adriaensen wrote: I am still not too sure if even now things are standardised enough for anyone to write a fresh file format for it that pleases everyone. It doesn't have to please anybody at all. It just needs to work, and be implemented in a widely known and FLOSS

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library

2022-05-29 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2022-05-27, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Hello Richard, Having been caught up in beach bum matters for some years, You are like...just so cool. Never have I ever... 8) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library

2022-05-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello Richard, > Having been caught up in beach bum matters for some years, Happy to hear you are still providing the sharks with their daily ration of SCUBA divers... > I've lost track of all the latest machinations.  But is there > a simple authoritative definition of AmbiX ? The best as far

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-25 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 08:45:42AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: > I am still not too sure if > even now things are standardised enough for anyone to write a fresh file > format for it that pleases everyone. Suffice it to say, such things can't > just be written,they have to be implemented and

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-25 Thread Richard Dobson
Welcome to my world - as it used to be! The ring-pass-not is that word 'standardised". My AMB Wavex-based file format is now 22 years old (FuMa, up to third-order). People have long moved on - basically as soon as that was published, everyone here started arguing about all the other

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-24 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2022-05-24, Alan Kan wrote: Ah… it seems one has to actually click on the file to see that detail. I was downloading from the list page. Why not embed the a standardised format descriptor into the file itself? Most formats permit that. In fact that's what we've been doing all along

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-23 Thread Alan Kan
convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files Each file's page indicates the convention; all the ones I've looked at have been AmbiX, but I've only looked at a small fraction of the files. The ones I have downloaded have names that appear random, like Acdb7b0a20a799bde7257.wav ... no obvious indication

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-23 Thread Aaron Heller
Each file's page indicates the convention; all the ones I've looked at have been AmbiX, but I've only looked at a small fraction of the files. The ones I have downloaded have names that appear random, like Acdb7b0a20a799bde7257.wav ... no obvious indication of the convection used. It's a great

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-23 Thread JJ Wiesler
It is a bit confusing. I’m pretty sure many of them are in Aformat, as captured by microphone which it does name in the title or listing info. They have a nice free plugin to convert to various b formats JJ On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 5:43 AM Jack Reynolds wrote: > As far as the know each file

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-23 Thread Jack Reynolds
As far as the know each file has the format in the file name. J Sent from my iPhone > On 23 May 2022, at 13:16, Alan Kan wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether the audio examples in the > Ambisonic Sound Library on https://library.soundfield.com/ are in FuMa or

[Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-23 Thread Alan Kan
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether the audio examples in the Ambisonic Sound Library on https://library.soundfield.com/ are in FuMa or AmbiX format? I couldn't find this detail on the website. Thanks Alan --- Dr. Alan Kan, PhD (he/his/him) Research Fellow School of