Au file format
The
Au file format is a simple audio
file format that consists of a header of 6 32-
bit words and then the data. The format was introduced by
Sun Microsystems.
| 32 bit word | field | description/content |
| 0 | magic number | the value 0x2e736e64 (four ASCII characters ".snd")
|
| 1 | data offset | the offset to the data in bytes. The minimum valid number is 24 (decimal).
|
2 | data size | data size in bytes. If unknown, the value 0xffffffff should be used. |
| 3 | encoding | Data encoding format:
1=8-bit ISDN u-law, 2=8-bit linear PCM [REF-PCM], 3=16-bit linear PCM,
4=24-bit linear PCM, 5=32-bit linear PCM, 6=32-bit IEEE floating point,
7=64-bit IEEE floating point,
23=8-bit ISDN u-law compressed using the UIT-T G.721 ADPCM voice data encoding scheme.
|
| 4 | sample rate | the number of samples/second (e.g., 8000) |
| 5 | channels | the number of interleaved channels (e.g., 1 for mono, 2 for stereo) |
