Python open raw audio data file

Question

Hi guys,

I have these files with the extension ".adc". They are simply raw data files. I can open them with Audacity using File->Import->Raw data with encoding "Signed 16 bit" and sample rate "16000 Khz".

I would like to do the same with python. I think that audioop module is what I need, but I can't seem to find examples on how to use it for something that simple.

The main goal is to open the file and play a certain location in the file, for example from the second 10 to the second 20. Is there something out there for my task ?

Thanx in advance.

Answer 1

For opening the file, you just need file(). For finding a location, you don't need audioop: you just need to convert seconds to bytes and get the required bytes of the file. For instance, if your file is 16 kHz 16bit mono, each second is 32,000 bytes of data. So the 10th second is 320kB into the file. Just seek to the appropriate place in the file and then read the appropriate number of bytes.

And audioop can't help you with the hardest part: namely, playing the audio. The correct way to do this very much depends on your OS.

EDIT: Sorry, I just noticed your username is "thelinuxer". Consider pyAO for playing audio from Python on Linux. You will probably need to change the sample format to play the audio---audioop will help you with this (see ratecv, tomono/tostereo, lin2lin, and bias)