Using Linux to manage a large audio collection

Using Linux to manage a large audio collection

Posted Mar 9, 2006 10:51 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Using Linux to manage a large audio collection by seyman
Parent article: Using Linux to manage a large audio collection

It is not this simple.

Wav files have headers which such things as content type (not necessarily PCM!) bitrate, stereo/mono, and probably length, although I am not certain of this.

If the two wav files were of the same type in every way, and if the RIFF headers that are what makes a wav a wav do not actually indicate content length, you would still get an unpleasant burst of noise in the datastream when transitioning from the first body of data to the second. Additionally, I do not believe there is any mechanism which would guarantee correct byte alignment of the high and low order bytes of the left and right channels.

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