Hi,
I want to write programs like reading audio file and playing it. And I also wanted to write programs to convert one format (.vlc to ,rm). SO please suggest books and ebook links.
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My favorite C book is "Expert C Programming (Deep C Secrets)" by Peter van der Linden. He gets a lot of information to the reader and is entertaining to boot. One of the best explanations of complicated nested types and similar stuff. Happily, it's not even a very fat book!
http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp/0131774298
Carl Smotricz
2009-11-20 07:11:20
However, that's for the C language itself (as the question's title asked). I'm afraid this book mentions nothing about audio file handling. That's not considered an "advanced C concept," it just calls for a library that's not part of the C language.
Carl Smotricz
2009-11-20 07:13:34
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I don't think you're going to find "Write C programs to read audio files in 30 days".
Reading audio files and converting files is about learning how to ready binary data from the disk, manipulate it in memory and/or write it back out to disk in another format.
What you really need is to study to the format of the files you want to play / convert. As for playing audio, I'm sure there's plenty of sample code available on the web if you'll just search.
Beyond that, you might pick up books which deal with advanced C concepts like pointer manipulation, data structures, etc. While these won't help you play audio, they will teach you advanced concepts that you'll use. I went to Amazon and typed in "Advanced C programming" and came up with: Advanced C Programming
So that's one at which you might want to look.
Wade Williams
2009-11-20 07:14:27
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In terms of audio libraries, this may do you some good: http://www.harmony-central.com/Computer/Programming/,
especially Audio File Library : Cross platform programming library for reading and writing various audio file formats.
But you can do what I did and just Google for "C sound library" or something similar.
Carl Smotricz
2009-11-20 07:17:43
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There aren't many advanced C programming books out there. Probably the two best are "Expert C programming" and "C interfaces and implementations". There's also "C Unleashed" that has a lot of domain-specific code - applying C to multiple real-world problems.
That said, you won't learn audio programming there. You should really:
- Study C
- Learn how to process binary data in C
- Learn the binary format of the audio files you want to convert
- Write the C code for your needs
Eli Bendersky
2009-11-20 07:37:41
Thank you.I understood that I am trying in wrong path. But,I am uncomfortable in solving binary data type programs in C.I have to concentrate more on that.
srikanth rongali
2009-11-20 07:54:26