cl-wav

Waveform audio file format (WAV files) uses Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) to store audio.

This project provides a cross platform reader for the WAV file format, implemented in Common Lisp.

Optionally, you can customise the chunk data reader, for example see wrap-data-chunk-data-samples-reader to read the data as an array of float samples.

N.B. The data from WAV files can be quite long and can be very slow to print out in a REPL. You probably don't want to do that.

For large files or streamed files, you can use cl-riff read-riff-chunk to read chunks on demand, whilst still using the chunk-data-readers provided here.

N.B. cl-wav has only been tested with a limited range of WAV files.

Example

> (ql:quickload :cl-wav)
> (wav:read-wav-file "c:/windows/media/ding.wav")
...
> (second *)
(:CHUNK-ID "fmt " :CHUNK-DATA-SIZE 16 :CHUNK-DATA
(:COMPRESSION-CODE 1 :NUMBER-OF-CHANNELS 2 :SAMPLE-RATE 44100
:AVERAGE-BYTES-PER-SECOND 176400 :BLOCK-ALIGN 4 :SIGNIFICANT-BITS-PER-SAMPLE
16))
> (wav:read-wav-file "c:/windows/media/ding.wav" :chunk-data-reader (wav:wrap-data-chunk-data-samples-reader))
...

Limitations

Currently only supports reading files, not writing.

References

WAV, Wikipedia

Wave File Format, The Sonic Spot

Rob Blackwell
February 2014