WAV files (or WAVE as they would be called if the Quick and Dirty Operating System hadn’t had a three-character limit on file extensions), probably the most common kind of files for uncompressed PCM audio, follow a loosely defined format with ancient roots, where sections have four-character labels. Each file consists of a single “RIFF”… Continue reading What is hidden in Aphex Twin’s WAV files?
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The size of silence (and other quirks in streaming FLAC to browsers)
Streaming music from the Klipspringer hub requires three components to interact asynchronously – the Java process that encodes and transmits the data, the web browser with the client-side code that receives and plays it, and the HTTP server that ties them together – so no wonder it’s been stuck in deadlock many times during development.… Continue reading The size of silence (and other quirks in streaming FLAC to browsers)
Crossfading
This post is about implementing crossfading, for transitioning smoothly between audio segments or tracks.