I just compiled CDP multi-channel toolkit on Linux, and tried
channelx, which is very small (48k), and works like a charm. 

Marc

Le Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:58:45 +0100,
Richard Dobson <richarddob...@blueyonder.co.uk> a écrit :

> Unfortunately it not quite as easy as it should be, as companies such
> as Steinberg and Digidesign "extend" (i.e. abuse) the documented WAVE 
> format with such things as over-large format chunks; I have had to 
> modify my strictly compliant code more than once to accommodate such 
> technically non-compliant files.
> 
> This why people writing soundfile code for critical production work 
> really do need to use libsndfile, as the author has refined it over
> very many years (and of course it is used everywhere so tested to 
> destruction, so to speak) to catch all such idiosyncracies. I have 
> limited myself to WAVE and AIFF PCM (and of course AMB).
> 
> The "channelx" (CDP multi-channel toolkit, now open source so also 
> available for Linux) command line is really very simple, as it is
> almost automatic, e.g. to split a 6-chan file "hex.wav" to files
> called "hex_c*.wav":
> 
> channelx -ohexsplit.wav hex.wav 1 2 3 4 5 6
> 
> gives files called "hexsplit_c1.wav ... hexsplit_c6.wav"
> 
> (the -o flag option allows you to specify a custom base outfile name
> to which the '_cN' suffix will be added as needed).
> 
> see: http://people.bath.ac.uk/masrwd/mctools.html
> Last updated March 2014
> 
> 
> Richard Dobson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/09/2014 01:48, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> > On 2014-09-03, Martin Leese wrote:
> >
> >>> It's a command line program. Very fast. Needs lotsa careful
> >>> typing.
> >>
> >> Or sloppy typing into a text editor to create a BAT file.  Then
> >> execute the BAT file.
> >
> > And, by the way, if you need some de novo code to do something like
> > that, it ain't gonna be too expensive in the first place.
> > IFF/AIFF/RIFF/QTFF/BMFF and their ilk are downright ridiculously
> > easy to decode and sieve. Let's say, it only takes a day's worth of
> > effort to extract what you want from them, so that you could easily
> > offer $80/h before taxes for the effort.
> >
> > Encoding into the various forms, that's another ballgame.
> 
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