Saving Wav to Disk

[Crandles]

Hey,

I just recently started using JUCE and have found it very useful so far but I'm having a problem saving a .wav file to disk. The code giving me trouble is is:

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   //save the filtered output
   ScopedPointer<WavAudioFormat> wavFormat =  new WavAudioFormat();
   File output("C:\\DEV\\FFT2\\filtered_output.wav");
   FileOutputStream *fost = output.createOutputStream();
   AudioSampleBuffer write_to_disk(&float_output, 1, M + P - 1);
   ScopedPointer<AudioFormatWriter> writer = wavFormat->createWriterFor(fost, 44100, 1, 16, StringPairArray(), 0);
   writer->writeFromAudioSampleBuffer(write_to_disk, 0, M + P - 1);

I know the data in float_output is good because I wrote it to a .txt file and imported it in Matlab to verify. I'm not sure if I'm opening the file/creating the streams/or calling write correctly.

Matlab gives the following output.

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>> output = wavread('filtered_output.wav');
??? Error using ==> wavread at 166
Incorrect chunk size information in WAV file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Graham

[jules]

Does your writer object definitely get deleted? That's usually the cause when you see unfinished files being written.

[Crandles]

If it's a scoped pointer shouldn't it get deleted automatically?

[jules]

Yes, but your code snippet doesn't show what happens after you created it.

[Crandles]

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   //save the filtered output
   ScopedPointer<WavAudioFormat> wavFormat =  new WavAudioFormat();
   File output("C:\\DEV\\FFT2\\filtered_output.wav");
   FileOutputStream *fost = output.createOutputStream();
   AudioSampleBuffer write_to_disk(&filtered_output, 1, M + P - 1);
   ScopedPointer<AudioFormatWriter> writer = wavFormat->createWriterFor(fost, 44100, 1, 16, StringPairArray(), 0);
   writer->writeFromAudioSampleBuffer(write_to_disk, 0, M + P - 1);

   std::cout << "The Kehoe Nation rules! (Press enter)" << std::endl;
   std::cin.ignore(1);
   return 0;

Writing the file to disk is the last thing the program does before exiting. I give a prompt telling me it's finished and then it waits for me to hit enter.

[jules]

yeah.. but the writer is still in scope when you do your std::cin stuff.

[Crandles]

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   ScopedPointer<WavAudioFormat> wavFormat =  new WavAudioFormat();
   File output("C:\\DEV\\FFT2\\filtered_output.wav");
   FileOutputStream *fost = output.createOutputStream();
   AudioSampleBuffer write_to_disk(&filtered_output, 1, M);
   AudioFormatWriter* writer = wavFormat->createWriterFor(fost, 44100, 1, 16, StringPairArray(), 0);
   if(writer->writeFromAudioSampleBuffer(write_to_disk, 0, M))
   {
      std::cout << "Saving .wav succeeded" << std::endl;
   }
   else
   {
      std::cout << "Saving .wav failed" << std::endl;
   }
   delete writer;

Even when I delete the writer Matlab gives me the same error and I can't play the file in Windows Media Player. Is there something else I'm doing wrong?

[jules]

Are you deleting the file before you write to it? Otherwise, you'll just be sticking your new data on the end of the existing file..

[Crandles]

That was precisely the problem! Thanks a bunch.