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libsndfile

Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound (such as MS Windows WAV and the Apple/SGI AIFF format) through one standard library interface. It is released in source code format under the GNU Lesser General Public License (GPL).

It was designed to handle both little-endian (such as WAV) and big-endian (such as AIFF) data, and to compile and run correctly on little-endian (such as Intel and DEC/Compaq Alpha) processor systems as well as big-endian processor systems

libsndfile has the following main features:

  • Ability to read and write a large number of file formats.

  • A simple, elegant and easy to use Applications Programming Interface.

  • Usable on Unix, Win32, MacOS and others.

  • On the fly format conversion, including endian-ness swapping, type conversion and bitwidth scaling.

  • Optional normalisation when reading floating point data from files containing integer data.

  • Ability to open files in read/write mode.

  • The ability to write the file header without closing the file (only on files open for write or read/write).

  • Ability to query the library about all supported formats and retrieve text strings describing each format.

Usage

To make this library available, run the following module commands

module load libs/libsndfile/1.0.28/gcc-4.9.4

This also activates version 4.9.4 of the GCC compiler suite.

Installation notes

This section is primarily for administrators of the system.

Version 1.0.28

Libsndfile was compiled with v4.9.4 of the GCC compiler suite.

  1. Download, configure, build, test and install using this script.

  2. Install this modulefile as /usr/local/modulefiles/libs/libsndfile/1.0.28/gcc-4.9.4