Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:
>> Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:
>>> Here is the utterly lazy method for writing WAVs:
>>>
>>> 1. Create a wav with the required parameters in the standard Windows
>>> Sound Recorder.
>>>
>>> 2. Cut the header off. If you don't want to know what is the size of
>>> the header, ~100 bytes from the beginning of the file will do.
>>>
>>> 3. Attach that header to your file
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> I have done it that way ~20 years ago. Surprisingly, it works just fine.

For a sufficiently small definition of "works just fine". WAV files have
size markers at several places, and your method will only work for
sufficiently simple^Wstupid WAV readers (for example those that simply
do a seek(44) and read until EOF).

Actually, Windows Media Player refuses to open WAV files I wrote
although I think I conform to the specs. Didn't get around debugging
that, though: I use them for temporary storage only, and Audacity, Sound
Recorder and sox read them just fine :-)


Stefan