From octave-sources-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Sep 14 00:05:18 2002
Subject: Loading, saving and playing audio from Octave
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at zip dot com dot au>
To: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:00:09 +1000

HI all,

I'm the author of libsndfile:

    http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/

The latest release of libsndfile includes the ability to read and write
a subset of the binary files used by GNU Octave (both 2.0.X and 2.1.X).
Also included in the libsndfile distribution are three octave script
files:

    sndfile_load.m
    sndfile_save.m
    sndfile_play.m

The purpose of the first two is pretty obvious, they load and save
Octave data in a format compatible with libsndfile. 

The third script file, sndfile_play.m, plays a piece of data on the
computers sound card using a program, sndfile-play, which is distributed
as part of the libsndfile package. This program works on Linux (and other
systems are compatible with the Open Sound System), Solaris, MacOSX and
Win32.

Examples and details can be found here:

    http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/octave.html

Cheers,
Erik
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