


RAW PCM to WAVE PCM Converter V1.5 - Copyright 1999 Antoine Mathys
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1)Introduction

Welcome to RAW PCM to WAVE PCM Converter. This file will briefly present the features of this program and instructions. You will also find the author's coordinates at the end.

Raw to Wav is a stand-alone program that converts a ".raw" sound file into a windows ".wav" file, with great flexibility.

This program is 100% free of charge, like the other ones I'll talk about later in this document. You are welcomed using and distributing it.

2)Features

As it was already said, Raw to Wav converts ".raw" files into ".wav" files. It has several features :

   - Any sampling rate
   - support for 8/16 bits samples
   - support for mono/stereo
   - flexible, by the use of command switches
   - can read every information it needs from a Cool Edit's ".dat" file.

The last feature is very useful, because the ".dat" file contains the needed informations (sampling rate, sampling resolution, ...). You can use WAVE PCM to RAW PCM Converter to transform a ".wav" file into a ".raw" file, and create a ".dat" file automatically, so that you can edit the ".raw" file and transform it back to a ".wav" file, without remembering the sampling rate (WAVE PCM to RAW PCM Converter is referred to later in this document).

3)User's Manual

The program is easy to use. It takes command line switches, or read from a ".dat" file with the same base name. In fact, it will automatically search for a .dat file and read it if it can, but the command line switches will override its content. Here is a description of the command line switches, with the full command line :

	rawtowav name -fxx -rxx -cMONO/STEREO [-d+/-] [description]

Where name is the input file name, -fxx the sampling frequency, -rxx the
sampling resolution and -cxx the number of channels. -d+/- (en/dis)able the
creation of a .dat header file. You can also supply an optional text
description of the file.

For example, 'rawtowav foo.raw -f11025 -r8 -cSTEREO a sample file' will convert a 11025 Hz 8 bits stereo file called foo.raw into a ".wav" file called foo.wav, containing the description "a sample file". That's all.

The default option for -d is +, it means that whenever you run rawtowav, a ".dat" file is created to facilitate further manipulation of the file (all the tools described bellow can work with this kind of files). You can disable this feature with -d-.

4)Contact Information

This program was written by Antoine Mathys in December 1999.

	URL    : http://www.chez.com/mathys/english/prog/amsound/
	E-Mail : mmathys@bluewin.ch

If you have any question, remark, suggestion, comment, if you found a bug, or if you just want to contact me, feel free to write me.

5)Divers

Raw to Wav is a stand-alone program, but it is more interesting to use it with some other programs, presented bellow, by the same author :

auana.exe    : Sun/NeXT AU Analyzer
autoraw.exe  : Sun/NeXT AU to RAW PCM Converter V1.1
rawtoau.exe  : RAW PCM to NeXT/Sun AU Converter V1.1
rawtowav.exe : RAW PCM to WAVE PCM Converter V1.5
riffwalk.exe : RIFF Files Walker V1.1
wavana.exe   : WAVE Analyzer V1.3
wavtoraw.exe : WAVE PCM to RAW PCM Converter V1.1

All this programs build the AmSound package. There are all available on the web, either in one single archive or independently, at the address :

        http://www.chez.com/mathys/english/prog/amsound/

I hope you'll enjoy the use of this programs. I remind you there are 100% free of charge, and that you can redistribute them as you want, provided the documentation is distributed with.

However, this software is distributed as is, without any warranty. They have been carefully written and tested, but Antoine Mathys wouldn't be taken responsible in case any damage should occur.


