Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] storing floats in ascii format
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 20:04:52 EEST
Maarten de Boer wrote:
>
> > the thing i like about xml is it's human-readable.
> > doing binary in xml combines all the bloat of the former with the
> > ugliness of the latter...
>
> yes...
>
> > do you expect to have such masses of float data that size will become an
> > issue ?
>
> yes. lots of FFT bins, sinusoidal peaks and tracks... a 5 sec sound easily
> results into 5 meg analysis data.
>
ahem... what are you trying to do ?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<audio:wav xmlns:audio="http://...">
<file>
<sample channel="left" value="0.0" id="0">
<sample channel="right" value="0.0" id="1">
....
</file>
</audio>
?
;)
xml is most certainly not the format for 5 megs of _analysis_data_.
a CSV list is probably better suited for the job.
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