Re: problem with wavread

[John W. Eaton]

Octave 2.9.13 includes a wavread function.

jwe


On 31-Aug-2007, James Sherman Jr. wrote:

| I'm unfamiliar with wavread.m and don't have Octave available at the moment,
| but it would probably help for general debugging purposes if you told us
| a) what version of octave you're using
| b) what function inside your script is giving the error
| 
| Furthermore, I think the audio package found here:
| http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html
| Has the function auload which may provide the same functionality.
| Also, googleing wavread and octave comes up with some code that was written
| for octave:
| 
http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/octave/lists/archive//octave-sources.2005/msg00017.html
| I don't know if this didn't make it into release or not (again I don't have
| octave available currently), but it is something I would try.
| 
| In general, (I don't know the inner workings of octave) I wouldn't expect
| that copying a mathworks matlab .m file to work with octave since they have
| their own set of internal functions and octave has its own.  I wouldn't even
| really call them the same language.  One goal is to make octave compatible
| with matlab code, not to clone every detail of matlab.  For example, on a
| very fundamental level, you can use ++ and += for example, in octave but not
| matlab.  There maybe more nuanced examples, but I'm not that familiar with
| octave.
| 
| Hope this helps.
| 
| James
| 
| On 8/31/07, Carlos Domínguez <address@hidden> wrote:
| >
| > Hello community
| > Sorry if i miss something writing this down but my language is spanish, so
| > i think you can understand.
| > I have a little problem, cause i have Octave in Red hat 9, but it doesn't
| > have the file wavread.m, that comes in Matlab 6.5 for Windows. I imported
| > a wavread.m (downloaded from internet) but is not the one i needed, so i
| > copied it from windows, but it doesn't run, puts an error (something like
| > "error in column x line y"). so my question is: ¿does anybody knows
| > something about this problem? Notice that I need exactly the same functions
| > that does the wavread.m file in the Matlab 6.5 (in matlab 7.0 is not the
| > same, at least in the version I have), cause i need to plot the wave form of
| > a wav file. ¿why the version of windows doesn't run over octave for red hat,
| > if the language is the same?
| > Well, I hope you can understand my awful english and the questions I've
| > made so i can solve my problem, I really need it.
| > Thanks a lot
| >
| > CADO
| > Carlos Dominguez
| > Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
| >
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| I&#39;m unfamiliar with wavread.m and don&#39;t have Octave available at the 
moment, but it would probably help for general debugging purposes if you told 
us<br>a) what version of octave you&#39;re using<br>b) what function inside 
your script is giving the error
| <br><br>Furthermore, I think the audio package found here: <a 
href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html";>http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html</a><br>Has
 the function auload which may provide the same functionality.
| <br>Also, googleing wavread and octave comes up with some code that was 
written for octave:<br><a 
href="http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/octave/lists/archive//octave-sources.2005/msg00017.html";>http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/octave/lists/archive//octave-sources.2005/msg00017.html
| </a><br>I don&#39;t know if this didn&#39;t make it into release or not 
(again I don&#39;t have octave available currently), but it is something I 
would try.<br><br>In general, (I don&#39;t know the inner workings of octave) I 
wouldn&#39;t expect that copying a mathworks matlab .m file to work with octave 
since they have their own set of internal functions and octave has its 
own.&nbsp; I wouldn&#39;t even really call them the same language.&nbsp; One 
goal is to make octave compatible with matlab code, not to clone every detail 
of matlab.&nbsp; For example, on a very fundamental level, you can use ++ and 
+= for example, in octave but not matlab.&nbsp; There maybe more nuanced 
examples, but I&#39;m not that familiar with octave.
| <br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>James<br><br><div><span 
class="gmail_quote">On 8/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carlos 
Domínguez</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>&gt; 
wrote:</span>
| <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 
204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello community<br>Sorry 
if i miss something writing this down but my language is spanish, so i think 
you can understand.
| <br>I have a little problem, cause i have Octave in Red hat 9, but it 
doesn&#39;t have the file wavread.m, that comes in Matlab 6.5 for Windows. I 
imported a wavread.m (downloaded from internet) but is not the one i needed, so 
i copied it from windows, but it doesn&#39;t run, puts an error (something like 
&quot;error in column x line y&quot;). so my question is: ¿does anybody knows 
something about this problem? Notice that I need exactly the same functions 
that does the 
| wavread.m file in the Matlab 6.5 (in matlab 7.0 is not the same, at least in 
the version I have), cause i need to plot the wave form of a wav file. ¿why the 
version of windows doesn&#39;t run over octave for red hat, if the language is 
the same?
| <br>Well, I hope you can understand my awful english and the questions 
I&#39;ve made so i can solve my problem, I really need it.<br>Thanks a 
lot<br><br>CADO<br>Carlos
|  Dominguez<br>Santiago de Cuba, Cuba<br><p> 
| 
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