Ubuntu
octave2.9 package

function soundsc fails after wavread

Bug #195402 reported by U. B. on 2008-02-25

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	octave2.9 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The following commands:

  path("/usr/share/octave/site/api-v22/m/octave2.9-forge/audio",path)
  x=wavread("/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Beep.wav");
  soundsc(x)

fail with this error message:

warning: warn_fortran_indexing is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS file or type `news' for details
warning: warn_fortran_indexing is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS file or type `news' for details
play stio: Failed reading `-': Sun/NeXT header size too small.

even though the WAV file is correct.

Revision history for this message

Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote on 2008-11-29:

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

Changed in octave2.9:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2009-01-14:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in octave2.9:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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HungryBoy (kalyan-wiki) wrote on 2009-03-10:

this the octave in the shell i have been using Edit (66.2 KiB, image/png)

octave:1> [y, fs, nbits]=wavread('/home/Desktop/windycity.wav');
octave:2> figure(1)
ans = 1
octave:3> plot(y)
octave:4> title('Music Waveform');
octave:5> soundsc(y,fs)
error: `soundsc' undefined near line 5 column 1

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this is what i am getting when i am using the soundsc function.
Can any one explain me the problem with the octave with the soundsc function.