scipy.io.wavfile.read cannot read 24-bits .wav files

Question

It seems that scipy.io.wavfile.read cannot read 24-bits .wav files. Do you have an idea on how to handle them ?

Answer 1

Here is an updated version of scipy.io.wavfile that adds many things:

• 24 bit .wav files support for read/write,
• access to cue markers,
• cue marker labels,
• some other metadata like pitch (if defined), etc.

wavfile.py (enhanced)

Feel free to share it!

Answer 2

If your wav files are not compressed, you can try the readwav function here: https://gist.github.com/WarrenWeckesser/7461781

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Update

I converted that gist to a python package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wavio

The source code is on github: https://github.com/WarrenWeckesser/wavio