I’ve run into an issue while loading audio files of the format WAV; it seems the juce::WavAudioFormatReader doesn’t recognize the data correctly, giving me a 0 length reader. Will look into it in depth when I find the time today…
Here is an example file that demonstrates this. May be worth noting that I used FreeMake to create this file.
The format tag is wrong. If you change it (2 bytes at offset 0x14) from FE FF to 01 00 (= PCM) the JuceDemo is able to read the file. I’d say this is a bug in Freemake as the data is clearly PCM and I couldn’t find any mentioning of FE FF being a valid format tag.
That’s quite odd… Okay so, even with that in mind; it doesn’t explain why VLC, Windows Media Player, FL Studio 10.0.9, Adobe Audition 3.1, Pro Tools 10.1 and Sonar 8.5 choose to read/play the file.
Perhaps there are other format tags for PCM-style audio data in wave files? Maybe a hint lies between the lines in the list of wFormatTag IDs in mmreg.h?