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Compatible File Formats – Sound Files

Files can be created in Tab delimited .txt (ASC II text), .prn (Lotus) and .xls (Excel) format and must adopt either of two formats: Sound files or PC99 Files.

Sound files ” are mono-channel recordings digitised using any analog-digital signal acquisition hardware compatible with sound capture/ editing/ playback software such as CoolEditTM at a Sampling Resolution of from 8 to 32 bits. Files in this format are compatible with Electric Fish Waveform Analyzer and with CoolEditTM or similar sound editing programs. Electric Fish Waveform Analyzer will convert files from a maximum of 6144 data rows to a standardised 2048 rows by subtracting or adding data from the end of the Data Array on opening. Text inserted after an $ inserted after the last data row of the file is recognized by Electric Fish Waveform Analyzer as “custom text” and displayed in the EOD field. This text is ignored by CoolEditTM. Electric Fish Waveform Analyzer will accept files in the format tabulated below at any sampling rate and resolution. CoolEditTM will only accept files at 8, 16 or 32 bit resolution and with a compatible Sampling Frequency (32, 44.1, 48, 64, 96, 192 kHz etc.).

Example:

 
SAMPLES: 2048 Number of samples
BITSPERSAMPLE: 32 Sampling resolution (bits)
CHANNELS: 1 Designates as mono recording
SAMPLERATE: 96000 Sampling frequency (kHz)
NORMALIZED: FALSE  
-2816 1st data row
-1792 2nd data row
etc. etc.
-2816 Last data row
$Gymnotus arapaima 01.170300 Optional text

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