Re: [fluid-dev] Converting .raw files using sox

[Peter Hanappe]

Josh Green wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 01:03, Ebrahim Mayat wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I recently tried the audio file driver and I was able to produce a file 
> > "fluidsynth.raw". In order to convert it to a readable sound file 
> > format, one needs to enter the sampling rate, data size and encoding 
> > used for the raw file. The sampling rate I would presume is 44100 so I 
> > could enter the option "-r 44100". I would like to know if the data 
> > size is 8- or 16-bit and what form of encoding is used to create these 
> > raw files: u-law, ADPCM or signed linear?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Ebrahim
>
>
> I would imagine it would be 16 bit stereo signed linear audio. You could
> always test it with the sox "play" command:
>
> play -c 2 -f s -r 44100 -s w -t raw fluid_output.raw
>
> Regards,
>         Josh Green

I convert it to a .wav file with sox as follows:

$ sox -c 2 -r 44100 -s -w fluidsynth.raw fluidsynth.wav

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