Hello,
The sndfile toolbox ATOMS : sndfile Toolbox details is available again to modern Scilab versions. Although this module was very popular, it was not maintained anymore, but this is now fixed. This toolbox allows to read and write various audio formats (Ogg, FLAC, AIFF, AU, CAF, OKI, WAV).
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I think that the functionality of this toolbox should be included in a single function set within Scilab’s core, such as soundread() and soundwrite(), or even added to the functionality provided by wavread() and wavwrite(). In the latter case the particle “wav” in the function names wouldn’t refer to wav files as a specific format but to a wave in general.
The reason why I’m proposing this is that today sound processing is far from being a marginal suburb of numerical computation and, thus, deserves full-fledged internal functions capable of opening and saving as many audio formats as possible. Atoms is a way to share specialized tools or even work in progress, I think reading audio files is far more basic than that. The popularity of the toolbox proves it.
Regards,
Federico Miyara