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so sad, I wrote a small tool converts the raw to wav...

Note that Audacity attempts to guess the raw data format, but it's no more than an educated guess. It is not possible to make this guess 100% accurate, which is why audio files usually contain header information. Please test importing this file as RAW data (you can change the file extension if you ...

Note that Audacity attempts to guess the raw data format, but it's no more than an educated guess. It is not possible to make this guess 100% accurate, which is why audio files usually contain header information. Please test importing this file as RAW data (you can change the file extension if you ...

you can "xxd -r " to restore the raw.

the correct waveform is like this (using matplotlib)

steve wrote:

terrance_h wrote:Importing 16bit signed raw results strange waveform

Not surprising, because "sin.txt" is not 16-bit signed PCM.
Where did that file come from?

i cannot upload the raw, the txt is its xxd dump

unable to upload raw file, using this xxd dump instead

Audacity 2.1.3 Ubuntu 16.04 amd64 This also affects windows version. Importing 16bit signed raw results strange waveform, seems like non linear a-law or u-law. Also most of the raw formats imports result unexpectedly. Screenshot_2017-04-28_20-38-08.png attachments: sin.raw: a signed 16-bit big-endia...