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<H1><B>sf_command</B></H1>
<PRE>
int sf_command (SNDFILE *sndfile, int cmd, void *data, int datasize) ;
</PRE>
<P>
This function allows the caller to retrieve information from or change aspects of the
library behaviour.
Examples include retrieving a string containing the library version or changing the
scaling applied to floating point sample data during read and write.
Most of these operations are performed on a per-file basis.
</P>
<P>
The cmd parameter is an integer identifier which is defined in &lt;sndfile.h&gt;.
All of the valid command identifiers have names beginning with "SFC_".
Data is passed to and returned from the library by use of a void pointer.
The library will not read or write more than datasize bytes from the void pointer.
For some calls no data is required in which case data should be NULL and datasize
may be used for some other purpose.
</P>
<P>
The available commands are as follows:
</P>
<CENTER>
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="90%" CELLPADDING="4">
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_LIB_VERSION">SFC_GET_LIB_VERSION</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the version of the library.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_LOG_INFO">SFC_GET_LOG_INFO</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the internal per-file operation log.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_CALC_SIGNAL_MAX">SFC_CALC_SIGNAL_MAX</A></TD>
<TD>Calculate the measured maximum signal value.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_CALC_NORM_SIGNAL_MAX">SFC_CALC_NORM_SIGNAL_MAX</A></TD>
<TD>Calculate the measured normalised maximum signal value.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_CALC_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS">SFC_CALC_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS</A></TD>
<TD>Calculate the peak value for each channel.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_CALC_NORM_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS">SFC_CALC_NORM_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS</A></TD>
<TD>Calculate the normalised peak for each channel.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_SIGNAL_MAX">SFC_GET_SIGNAL_MAX</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the peak value for the file (as stored in the file header).</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS">SFC_GET_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the peak value for each channel (as stored in the file header).</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_NORM_FLOAT">SFC_SET_NORM_FLOAT</A></TD>
<TD>Modify the normalisation behaviour of the floating point reading and writing functions.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_NORM_DOUBLE">SFC_SET_NORM_DOUBLE</A></TD>
<TD>Modify the normalisation behaviour of the double precision floating point reading and writing functions.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_NORM_FLOAT">SFC_GET_NORM_FLOAT</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the current normalisation behaviour of the floating point reading and writing functions.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_NORM_DOUBLE">SFC_GET_NORM_DOUBLE</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the current normalisation behaviour of the double precision floating point reading and writing functions.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_SCALE_FLOAT_INT_READ">SFC_SET_SCALE_FLOAT_INT_READ</A></TD>
<TD>Set/clear the scale factor when integer (short/int) data is read from a file
containing floating point data.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_SCALE_INT_FLOAT_WRITE">SFC_SET_SCALE_INT_FLOAT_WRITE</A></TD>
<TD>Set/clear the scale factor when integer (short/int) data is written to a file
as floating point data.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT_COUNT">SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT_COUNT</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the number of simple formats supported by libsndfile.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT">SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve information about a simple format.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_FORMAT_INFO">SFC_GET_FORMAT_INFO</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve information about a major or subtype format.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR_COUNT">SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR_COUNT</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the number of major formats.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR">SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve information about a major format type.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE_COUNT">SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE_COUNT</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the number of subformats.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE">SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve information about a subformat.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_ADD_PEAK_CHUNK">SFC_SET_ADD_PEAK_CHUNK</A></TD>
<TD>Switch the code for adding the PEAK chunk to WAV and AIFF files on or off.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_UPDATE_HEADER_NOW">SFC_UPDATE_HEADER_NOW</A></TD>
<TD>Used when a file is open for write, this command will update the file
header to reflect the data written so far.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_UPDATE_HEADER_AUTO">SFC_SET_UPDATE_HEADER_AUTO</A></TD>
<TD>Used when a file is open for write, this command will cause the file header
to be updated after each write to the file.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_FILE_TRUNCATE">SFC_FILE_TRUNCATE</A></TD>
<TD>Truncate a file open for write or for read/write.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_RAW_START_OFFSET">SFC_SET_RAW_START_OFFSET</A></TD>
<TD>Change the data start offset for files opened up as SF_FORMAT_RAW.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_CLIPPING">SFC_SET_CLIPPING</A></TD>
<TD>Turn on/off automatic clipping when doing floating point to integer
conversion.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_CLIPPING">SFC_GET_CLIPPING</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve current clipping setting.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_EMBED_FILE_INFO">SFC_GET_EMBED_FILE_INFO</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve information about audio files embedded inside other files.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_WAVEX_GET_AMBISONIC">SFC_GET_AMBISONIC</A></TD>
<TD>Test a WAVEX file for Ambisonic format</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_WAVEX_SET_AMBISONIC">SFC_SET_AMBISONIC</A></TD>
<TD>Modify a WAVEX header for Ambisonic format</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_VBR_ENCODING_QUALITY">SFC_SET_VBR_ENCODING_QUALITY</A></TD>
<TD>Set the Variable Bit Rate encoding quality</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_COMPRESSION_LEVEL">SFC_SET_COMPRESSION_LEVEL</A></TD>
<TD>Set the compression level.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_RAW_NEEDS_ENDSWAP">SFC_RAW_NEEDS_ENDSWAP</a></td>
<TD>Determine if raw data needs endswapping</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_BROADCAST_INFO">SFC_GET_BROADCAST_INFO</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the Broadcast Chunk info</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_BROADCAST_INFO">SFC_SET_BROADCAST_INFO</A></TD>
<TD>Set the Broadcast Chunk info</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_CART_INFO">SFC_SET_CART_INFO</A></TD>
<TD>Set the Cart Chunk info</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_CART_INFO">SFC_GET_CART_INFO</A></TD>
<TD>Retrieve the Cart Chunk info</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_LOOP_INFO">SFC_GET_LOOP_INFO</A></TD>
<TD>Get loop info</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_INSTRUMENT">SFC_GET_INSTRUMENT</A></TD>
<TD>Get instrument info</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_INSTRUMENT">SFC_SET_INSTRUMENT</A></TD>
<TD>Set instrument info</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_CUE_COUNT">SFC_GET_CUE_COUNT</A></TD>
<TD>Get the cue marker count</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_GET_CUE">SFC_GET_CUE</A></TD>
<TD>Get cue marker info</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_SET_CUE">SFC_SET_CUE</A></TD>
<TD>Set cue marker info</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#SFC_RF64_AUTO_DOWNGRADE">SFC_RF64_AUTO_DOWNGRADE</A></TD>
<TD>Enable auto downgrade from RF64 to WAV</TD>
</TR>
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<TR>
<TD><A HREF="#add-dither">add dither</A></TD>
<TD>Add dither to output on write.</TD>
</TR>
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</TABLE>
</CENTER>
<BR><BR>
<HR>
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<A NAME="SFC_GET_LIB_VERSION"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_LIB_VERSION</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the version of the library as a string.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : Not used
cmd : SFC_GET_LIB_VERSION
data : A pointer to a char buffer
datasize : The size of the buffer
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
char buffer [128] ;
sf_command (NULL, SFC_GET_LIB_VERSION, buffer, sizeof (buffer)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD><DD>This call will return the length of the retrieved version string.
</DL>
<DL>
<DT>Notes:</DT>
<DD>
The string returned in the buffer passed to this function will not overflow
the buffer and will always be null terminated .
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_GET_LOG_INFO"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_LOG_INFO</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the log buffer generated when opening a file as a string. This log
buffer can often contain a good reason for why libsndfile failed to open a
particular file.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_LOG_INFO
data : A pointer to a char buffer
datasize : The size of the buffer
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
char buffer [2048] ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_LOG_INFO, buffer, sizeof (buffer)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD><DD>This call will return the length of the retrieved version string.
</DL>
<DL>
<DT>Notes:</DT>
<DD>
The string returned in the buffer passed to this function will not overflow
the buffer and will always be null terminated .
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_CALC_SIGNAL_MAX"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_CALC_SIGNAL_MAX</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the measured maximum signal value. This involves reading through
the whole file which can be slow on large files.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_CALC_SIGNAL_MAX
data : A pointer to a double
datasize : sizeof (double)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
double max_val ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_CALC_SIGNAL_MAX, &amp;max_val, sizeof (max_val)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD><DD>Zero on success, non-zero otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_CALC_NORM_SIGNAL_MAX"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_CALC_NORM_SIGNAL_MAX</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the measured normalised maximum signal value. This involves reading
through the whole file which can be slow on large files.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_CALC_NORM_SIGNAL_MAX
data : A pointer to a double
datasize : sizeof (double)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
double max_val ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_CALC_NORM_SIGNAL_MAX, &amp;max_val, sizeof (max_val)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD><DD>Zero on success, non-zero otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_CALC_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_CALC_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS</B></H2>
<P>
Calculate the peak value (ie a single number) for each channel.
This involves reading through the whole file which can be slow on large files.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_CALC_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS
data : A pointer to a double
datasize : sizeof (double) * number_of_channels
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
double peaks [number_of_channels] ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_CALC_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS, peaks, sizeof (peaks)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>Zero if peaks have been calculated successfully and non-zero otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_CALC_NORM_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_CALC_NORM_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS</B></H2>
<P>
Calculate the normalised peak for each channel.
This involves reading through the whole file which can be slow on large files.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_CALC_NORM_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS
data : A pointer to a double
datasize : sizeof (double) * number_of_channels
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
double peaks [number_of_channels] ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_CALC_NORM_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS, peaks, sizeof (peaks)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>Zero if peaks have been calculated successfully and non-zero otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_GET_SIGNAL_MAX"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_SIGNAL_MAX</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the peak value for the file as stored in the file header.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_SIGNAL_MAX
data : A pointer to a double
datasize : sizeof (double)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
double max_peak ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_SIGNAL_MAX, &amp;max_peak, sizeof (max_peak)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>SF_TRUE if the file header contained the peak value. SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_GET_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the peak value for the file as stored in the file header.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_SIGNAL_MAX
data : A pointer to an array of doubles
datasize : sizeof (double) * number_of_channels
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
double peaks [number_of_channels] ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_MAX_ALL_CHANNELS, peaks, sizeof (peaks)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>SF_TRUE if the file header contains per channel peak values for the file.
SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_SET_NORM_FLOAT"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_NORM_FLOAT</B></H2>
<P>
This command only affects data read from or written to using the floating point functions:
</P>
<PRE>
size_t <A HREF="api.html#read">sf_read_float</A> (SNDFILE *sndfile, float *ptr, size_t items) ;
size_t <A HREF="api.html#readf">sf_readf_float</A> (SNDFILE *sndfile, float *ptr, size_t frames) ;
size_t <A HREF="api.html#write">sf_write_float</A> (SNDFILE *sndfile, float *ptr, size_t items) ;
size_t <A HREF="api.html#writef">sf_writef_float</A> (SNDFILE *sndfile, float *ptr, size_t frames) ;
</PRE>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_NORM_FLOAT
data : NULL
datasize : SF_TRUE or SF_FALSE
</PRE>
<P>
For read operations setting normalisation to SF_TRUE means that the data from all
subsequent reads will be be normalised to the range [-1.0, 1.0].
</P>
<P>
For write operations, setting normalisation to SF_TRUE means than all data supplied
to the float write functions should be in the range [-1.0, 1.0] and will be scaled
for the file format as necessary.
</P>
<P>
For both cases, setting normalisation to SF_FALSE means that no scaling will take place.
</P>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_NORM_FLOAT, NULL, SF_TRUE) ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_NORM_FLOAT, NULL, SF_FALSE) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>Returns the previous float normalisation mode.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_SET_NORM_DOUBLE"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_NORM_DOUBLE</B></H2>
<P>
This command only affects data read from or written to using the double precision
floating point functions:
</P>
<PRE>
size_t <A HREF="api.html#read">sf_read_double</A> (SNDFILE *sndfile, double *ptr, size_t items) ;
size_t <A HREF="api.html#readf">sf_readf_double</A> (SNDFILE *sndfile, double *ptr, size_t frames) ;
size_t <A HREF="api.html#write">sf_write_double</A> (SNDFILE *sndfile, double *ptr, size_t items) ;
size_t <A HREF="api.html#writef">sf_writef_double</A> (SNDFILE *sndfile, double *ptr, size_t frames) ;
</PRE>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_NORM_DOUBLE
data : NULL
datasize : SF_TRUE or SF_FALSE
</PRE>
<P>
For read operations setting normalisation to SF_TRUE means that the data
from all subsequent reads will be be normalised to the range [-1.0, 1.0].
</P>
<P>
For write operations, setting normalisation to SF_TRUE means than all data supplied
to the double write functions should be in the range [-1.0, 1.0] and will be scaled
for the file format as necessary.
</P>
<P>
For both cases, setting normalisation to SF_FALSE means that no scaling will take place.
</P>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_NORM_DOUBLE, NULL, SF_TRUE) ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_NORM_DOUBLE, NULL, SF_FALSE) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>Returns the previous double normalisation mode.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_GET_NORM_FLOAT"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_NORM_FLOAT</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the current float normalisation mode.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_NORM_FLOAT
data : NULL
datasize : anything
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
normalisation = sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_NORM_FLOAT, NULL, 0) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>Returns TRUE if normalisation is on and FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_NORM_DOUBLE"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_NORM_DOUBLE</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the current float normalisation mode.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_NORM_DOUBLE
data : NULL
datasize : anything
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
normalisation = sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_NORM_DOUBLE, NULL, 0) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>Returns TRUE if normalisation is on and FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_SCALE_FLOAT_INT_READ"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_SCALE_FLOAT_INT_READ</B></H2>
<P>
Set/clear the scale factor when integer (short/int) data is read from a file
containing floating point data.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_SCALE_FLOAT_INT_READ
data : NULL
datasize : TRUE or FALSE
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_SCALE_FLOAT_INT_READ, NULL, SF_TRUE) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>Returns the previous SFC_SET_SCALE_FLOAT_INT_READ setting for this file.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_SET_SCALE_INT_FLOAT_WRITE"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_SCALE_INT_FLOAT_WRITE</B></H2>
<P>
Set/clear the scale factor when integer (short/int) data is written to a file
as floating point data.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_SCALE_FLOAT_INT_READ
data : NULL
datasize : TRUE or FALSE
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_SCALE_INT_FLOAT_WRITE, NULL, SF_TRUE) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>Returns the previous SFC_SET_SCALE_INT_FLOAT_WRITE setting for this file.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT_COUNT"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT_COUNT</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the number of simple formats supported by libsndfile.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : Not used.
cmd : SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT_COUNT
data : a pointer to an int
datasize : sizeof (int)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
int count ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT_COUNT, &amp;count, sizeof (int)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>0
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve information about a simple format.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : Not used.
cmd : SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT
data : a pointer to an SF_FORMAT_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_FORMAT_INFO)
</PRE>
<P>
The SF_FORMAT_INFO struct is defined in &lt;sndfile.h&gt; as:
</P>
<PRE>
typedef struct
{ int format ;
const char *name ;
const char *extension ;
} SF_FORMAT_INFO ;
</PRE>
<P>
When sf_command() is called with SF_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT, the value of the format
field should be the format number (ie 0 &lt;= format &lt;= count value obtained using
SF_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT_COUNT).
</P>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
SF_FORMAT_INFO format_info ;
int k, count ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT_COUNT, &amp;count, sizeof (int)) ;
for (k = 0 ; k &lt; count ; k++)
{ format_info.format = k ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_SIMPLE_FORMAT, &amp;format_info, sizeof (format_info)) ;
printf ("%08x %s %s\n", format_info.format, format_info.name, format_info.extension) ;
} ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>0 on success and non-zero otherwise.
<DD>The value of the format field of the SF_FORMAT_INFO struct will be a value which
can be placed in the format field of an SF_INFO struct when a file is to be opened
for write.
<DD>The name field will contain a char* pointer to the name of the string, eg. "WAV (Microsoft 16 bit PCM)".
<DD>The extension field will contain the most commonly used file extension for that file type.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_FORMAT_INFO"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_FORMAT_INFO</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve information about a major or subtype format.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : Not used.
cmd : SFC_GET_FORMAT_INFO
data : a pointer to an SF_FORMAT_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_FORMAT_INFO)
</PRE>
<P>
The SF_FORMAT_INFO struct is defined in &lt;sndfile.h&gt; as:
</P>
<PRE>
typedef struct
{ int format ;
const char *name ;
const char *extension ;
} SF_FORMAT_INFO ;
</PRE>
<P>
When sf_command() is called with SF_GET_FORMAT_INFO, the format field is
examined and if (format &amp; SF_FORMAT_TYPEMASK) is a valid format then the struct
is filled in with information about the given major type.
If (format &amp; SF_FORMAT_TYPEMASK) is FALSE and (format &amp; SF_FORMAT_SUBMASK) is a
valid subtype format then the struct is filled in with information about the given
subtype.
</P>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
SF_FORMAT_INFO format_info ;
format_info.format = SF_FORMAT_WAV ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_INFO, &amp;format_info, sizeof (format_info)) ;
printf ("%08x %s %s\n", format_info.format, format_info.name, format_info.extension) ;
format_info.format = SF_FORMAT_ULAW ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_INFO, &amp;format_info, sizeof (format_info)) ;
printf ("%08x %s\n", format_info.format, format_info.name) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>0 on success and non-zero otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR_COUNT"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR_COUNT</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the number of major formats.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : Not used.
cmd : SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR_COUNT
data : a pointer to an int
datasize : sizeof (int)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
int count ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR_COUNT, &amp;count, sizeof (int)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>0
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve information about a major format type.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : Not used.
cmd : SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR
data : a pointer to an SF_FORMAT_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_FORMAT_INFO)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
SF_FORMAT_INFO format_info ;
int k, count ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR_COUNT, &amp;count, sizeof (int)) ;
for (k = 0 ; k &lt; count ; k++)
{ format_info.format = k ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_MAJOR, &amp;format_info, sizeof (format_info)) ;
printf ("%08x %s %s\n", format_info.format, format_info.name, format_info.extension) ;
} ;
</PRE>
<P>
For a more comprehensive example, see the program list_formats.c in the examples/
directory of the libsndfile source code distribution.
</P>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>0 on success and non-zero otherwise.
<DD>The value of the format field will be one of the major format identifiers such as
SF_FORMAT_WAV or SF_FORMAT_AIFF.
<DD>The name field will contain a char* pointer to the name of the string, eg. "WAV (Microsoft)".
<DD>The extension field will contain the most commonly used file extension for that file type.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE_COUNT"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE_COUNT</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the number of subformats.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : Not used.
cmd : SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE_COUNT
data : a pointer to an int
datasize : sizeof (int)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
int count ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE_COUNT, &amp;count, sizeof (int)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>0
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE</B></H2>
<P>
Enumerate the subtypes (this function does not translate a subtype into
a string describing that subtype).
A typical use case might be retrieving a string description of all subtypes
so that a dialog box can be filled in.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : Not used.
cmd : SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE
data : a pointer to an SF_FORMAT_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_FORMAT_INFO)
</PRE>
<P>
Example 1: Retrieve all sybtypes supported by the WAV format.
</P>
<PRE>
SF_FORMAT_INFO format_info ;
int k, count ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE_COUNT, &amp;count, sizeof (int)) ;
for (k = 0 ; k &lt; count ; k++)
{ format_info.format = k ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE, &amp;format_info, sizeof (format_info)) ;
if (! sf_format_check (format_info.format | SF_FORMAT_WAV))
continue ;
printf ("%08x %s\n", format_info.format, format_info.name) ;
} ;
</PRE>
<P>
Example 2: Print a string describing the SF_FORMAT_PCM_16 subtype.
</P>
<PRE>
SF_FORMAT_INFO format_info ;
int k, count ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE_COUNT, &amp;count, sizeof (int)) ;
for (k = 0 ; k &lt; count ; k++)
{ format_info.format = k ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_FORMAT_SUBTYPE, &amp;format_info, sizeof (format_info)) ;
if (format_info.format == SF_FORMAT_PCM_16)
{ printf ("%08x %s\n", format_info.format, format_info.name) ;
break ;
} ;
} ;
</PRE>
<P>
For a more comprehensive example, see the program list_formats.c in the examples/
directory of the libsndfile source code distribution.
</P>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>0 on success and non-zero otherwise.
<DD>The value of the format field will be one of the major format identifiers such as
SF_FORMAT_WAV or SF_FORMAT_AIFF.
<DD>The name field will contain a char* pointer to the name of the string; for instance
"WAV (Microsoft)" or "AIFF (Apple/SGI)".
<DD>The extension field will be a NULL pointer.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_ADD_PEAK_CHUNK"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_ADD_PEAK_CHUNK</B></H2>
<P>
By default, WAV and AIFF files which contain floating point data (subtype SF_FORMAT_FLOAT
or SF_FORMAT_DOUBLE) have a PEAK chunk.
By using this command, the addition of a PEAK chunk can be turned on or off.
</P>
<P>
Note : This call must be made before any data is written to the file.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_ADD_PEAK_CHUNK
data : Not used (should be NULL)
datasize : TRUE or FALSE.
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
/* Turn on the PEAK chunk. */
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_ADD_PEAK_CHUNK, NULL, SF_TRUE) ;
/* Turn off the PEAK chunk. */
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_ADD_PEAK_CHUNK, NULL, SF_FALSE) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>Returns SF_TRUE if the peak chunk will be written after this call.
<DD>Returns SF_FALSE if the peak chunk will not be written after this call.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_UPDATE_HEADER_NOW"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_UPDATE_HEADER_NOW</B></H2>
<P>
The header of an audio file is normally written by libsndfile when the file is
closed using <B>sf_close()</B>.
</P>
<P>
There are however situations where large files are being generated and it would
be nice to have valid data in the header before the file is complete.
Using this command will update the file header to reflect the amount of data written
to the file so far.
Other programs opening the file for read (before any more data is written) will
then read a valid sound file header.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_UPDATE_HEADER_NOW
data : Not used (should be NULL)
datasize : Not used.
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
/* Update the header now. */
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_UPDATE_HEADER_NOW, NULL, 0) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>0
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_UPDATE_HEADER_AUTO"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_UPDATE_HEADER_AUTO</B></H2>
<P>
Similar to SFC_UPDATE_HEADER_NOW but updates the header at the end of every call
to the <B>sf_write*</B> functions.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_UPDATE_HEADER_NOW
data : Not used (should be NULL)
datasize : SF_TRUE or SF_FALSE
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
/* Turn on auto header update. */
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_UPDATE_HEADER_AUTO, NULL, SF_TRUE) ;
/* Turn off auto header update. */
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_UPDATE_HEADER_AUTO, NULL, SF_FALSE) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>TRUE if auto update header is now on; FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_FILE_TRUNCATE"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_FILE_TRUNCATE</B></H2>
<P>
Truncate a file that was opened for write or read/write.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_FILE_TRUNCATE
data : A pointer to an sf_count_t.
datasize : sizeof (sf_count_t)
</PRE>
<P>
Truncate the file to the number of frames specified by the sf_count_t pointed
to by data.
After this command, both the read and the write pointer will be
at the new end of the file.
This command will fail (returning non-zero) if the requested truncate position
is beyond the end of the file.
</P>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
/* Truncate the file to a length of 20 frames. */
sf_count_t frames = 20 ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_FILE_TRUNCATE, &amp;frames, sizeof (frames)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>Zero on sucess, non-zero otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_RAW_START_OFFSET"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_RAW_START_OFFSET</B></H2>
<P>
Change the data start offset for files opened up as SF_FORMAT_RAW.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_RAW_START_OFFSET
data : A pointer to an sf_count_t.
datasize : sizeof (sf_count_t)
</PRE>
<P>
For a file opened as format SF_FORMAT_RAW, set the data offset to the value
given by data.
</P>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
/* Reset the data offset to 5 bytes from the start of the file. */
sf_count_t offset = 5 ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_RAW_START_OFFSET, &amp;offset, sizeof (offset)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>Zero on success, non-zero otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_CLIPPING"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_CLIPPING</B></H2>
<P>
Turn on/off automatic clipping when doing floating point to integer conversion.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_CLIPPING
data : NULL
datasize : SF_TRUE or SF_FALSE.
</PRE>
<P>
Turn on (datasize == SF_TRUE) or off (datasize == SF_FALSE) clipping.
</P>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_CLIPPING, NULL, SF_TRUE) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>Clipping mode (SF_TRUE or SF_FALSE).
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_CLIPPING"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_CLIPPING</B></H2>
<P>
Turn on/off automatic clipping when doing floating point to integer conversion.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_CLIPPING
data : NULL
datasize : 0
</PRE>
<P>
Retrieve the current cliiping setting.
</P>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_CLIPPING, NULL, 0) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>Clipping mode (SF_TRUE or SF_FALSE).
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_EMBED_FILE_INFO"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_EMBED_FILE_INFO</B></H2>
<P>
Get the file offset and file length of a file enbedded within another
larger file.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_CLIPPING
data : a pointer to an SF_EMBED_FILE_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_EMBED_FILE_INFO)
</PRE>
<P>
The SF_EMBED_FILE_INFO struct is defined in &lt;sndfile.h&gt; as:
</P>
<PRE>
typedef struct
{ sf_count_t offset ;
sf_count_t length ;
} SF_EMBED_FILE_INFO ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>0 on success and non-zero otherwise.
<DD>The value of the offset field of the SF_EMBED_FILE_INFO struct will be
the offsets in bytes from the start of the outer file to the start of
the audio file.
<DD>The value of the offset field of the SF_EMBED_FILE_INFO struct will be
the length in bytes of the embedded file.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_WAVEX_GET_AMBISONIC"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_WAVEX_GET_AMBISONIC</B></H2>
<P>
Test if the current file has the GUID of a WAVEX file for any of the Ambisonic
formats.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_WAVEX_GET_AMBISONIC
data : NULL
datasize : 0
</PRE>
<P>
The Ambisonic WAVEX formats are defined here :
<A HREF="http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/researchdev/wave-ex/bformat.html">
http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/researchdev/wave-ex/bformat.html</A>.
</P>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>SF_AMBISONIC_NONE or SF_AMBISONIC_B_FORMAT or zero if the file format
does not support ambisonic formats.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_WAVEX_SET_AMBISONIC"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_WAVEX_SET_AMBISONIC</B></H2>
<P>
Set the GUID of a new WAVEX file to indicate an Ambisonics format.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_WAVEX_SET_AMBISONIC
data : NULL
datasize : SF_AMBISONIC_NONE or SF_AMBISONIC_B_FORMAT
</PRE>
<P>
Turn on (SF_AMBISONIC_B_FORMAT) or off (SF_AMBISONIC_NONE) encoding.
This command is currently only supported for files with SF_FORMAT_WAVEX format.
</P>
<P>
The Ambisonic WAVEX formats are defined here :
<A HREF="http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/researchdev/wave-ex/bformat.html">
http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/researchdev/wave-ex/bformat.html</A>.
</P>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>Return the ambisonic value that has just been set or zero if the file
format does not support ambisonic encoding.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_VBR_ENCODING_QUALITY"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_VBR_ENCODING_QUALITY</B></H2>
<P>
Set the Variable Bit Rate encoding quality.
The encoding quality value should be between 0.0 (lowest quality) and 1.0
(highest quality).
Currenly this command is only implemented for FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis files.
It has no effect on un-compressed file formats.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_VBR_ENCODING_QUALITY
data : A pointer to a double value
datasize : sizeof (double)
</PRE>
<P>
The command must be sent before any audio data is written to the file.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<dd>SF_TRUE if VBR encoding quality was set.
SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_COMPRESSION_LEVEL"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_COMPRESSION_LEVEL</B></H2>
<P>
Set the compression level.
The compression level should be between 0.0 (minimum compression level) and 1.0
(highest compression level).
Currenly this command is only implemented for FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis files.
It has no effect on un-compressed file formats.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_COMPRESSION_LEVEL
data : A pointer to a double value
datasize : sizeof (double)
</PRE>
<P>
The command must be sent before any audio data is written to the file.
</P>
<P>
</P>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<dd>SF_TRUE if compression level was set.
SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_RAW_NEEDS_ENDSWAP"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_RAW_NEEDS_ENDSWAP</B></H2>
<P>
Determine if raw data read using
<a href="api.html#raw">
sf_read_raw</a>
needs to be end swapped on the host CPU.
</P>
<P>
For instance, will return SF_TRUE on when reading WAV containing
SF_FORMAT_PCM_16 data on a big endian machine and SF_FALSE on a little endian
machine.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_RAW_NEEDS_ENDSWAP
data : NULL
datasize : 0
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>SF_TRUE or SF_FALSE
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_BROADCAST_INFO"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_BROADCAST_INFO</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the Broadcast Extension Chunk from WAV (and related) files.
</P>
<p>
Parameters:
</p>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_BROADCAST_INFO
data : a pointer to an SF_BROADCAST_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_BROADCAST_INFO)
</PRE>
<P>
The SF_BROADCAST_INFO struct is defined in &lt;sndfile.h&gt; as:
</P>
<PRE>
typedef struct
{ char description [256] ;
char originator [32] ;
char originator_reference [32] ;
char origination_date [10] ;
char origination_time [8] ;
unsigned int time_reference_low ;
unsigned int time_reference_high ;
short version ;
char umid [64] ;
char reserved [190] ;
unsigned int coding_history_size ;
char coding_history [256] ;
} SF_BROADCAST_INFO ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>SF_TRUE if the file contained a Broadcast Extension chunk or SF_FALSE
otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_BROADCAST_INFO"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_BROADCAST_INFO</B></H2>
<P>
Set the Broadcast Extension Chunk for WAV (and related) files.
</P>
<p>
Parameters:
</p>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_BROADCAST_INFO
data : a pointer to an SF_BROADCAST_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_BROADCAST_INFO)
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>SF_TRUE if setting the Broadcast Extension chunk was successful and SF_FALSE
otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_CART_INFO"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_CART_INFO</B></H2>
<P>Retrieve the Cart Chunk from WAV (and related) files. Based on AES46 standard for CartChunk (see <a href="http://www.cartchunk.org/">CartChunk.org</a> for more information.
</P>
<p>
Parameters:
</p>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_CART_INFO
data : a pointer to an SF_CART_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_CART_INFO)
</PRE>
<P>
The SF_CART_INFO struct is defined in &lt;sndfile.h&gt; as:
</P>
<PRE>
#define SF_CART_INFO_VAR(p_tag_text_size) \
struct
{ char version [4] ;
char title [64] ;
char artist [64] ;
char cut_id [64] ;
char client_id [64] ;
char category [64] ;
char classification [64] ;
char out_cue [64] ;
char start_date [10] ;
char start_time [8] ;
char end_date [10] ;
char end_time [8] ;
char producer_app_id [64] ;
char producer_app_version [64] ;
char user_def [64] ;
long level_reference ;
SF_CART_TIMER post_timers [8] ;
char reserved [276] ;
char url [1024] ;
unsigned int tag_text_size ;
char tag_text[p_tag_text_size] ;
}
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>SF_TRUE if the file contained a Cart chunk or SF_FALSE
otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_CART_INFO"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_CART_INFO</B></H2>
<P>
Set the Cart Chunk for WAV (and related) files.
</P>
<p>
Parameters:
</p>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_CART_INFO
data : a pointer to an SF_CART_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_CART_INFO)
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value: </DT>
<DD>SF_TRUE if setting the Cart chunk was successful and SF_FALSE
otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_LOOP_INFO"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_LOOP_INFO</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve loop information for file including time signature, length in
beats and original MIDI base note
</P>
<p>
Parameters:
</p>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_LOOP_INFO
data : a pointer to an SF_LOOP_INFO struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_LOOP_INFO)
</PRE>
<P>
The SF_BROADCAST_INFO struct is defined in &lt;sndfile.h&gt; as:
</P>
<PRE>
typedef struct
{ short time_sig_num ; /* any positive integer > 0 */
short time_sig_den ; /* any positive power of 2 > 0 */
int loop_mode ; /* see SF_LOOP enum */
int num_beats ; /* this is NOT the amount of quarter notes !!!*/
/* a full bar of 4/4 is 4 beats */
/* a full bar of 7/8 is 7 beats */
float bpm ; /* suggestion, as it can be calculated using other fields:*/
/* file's lenght, file's sampleRate and our time_sig_den*/
/* -> bpms are always the amount of _quarter notes_ per minute */
int root_key ; /* MIDI note, or -1 for None */
int future [6] ;
} SF_LOOP_INFO ;
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
SF_LOOP_INFO loop;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_LOOP_INFO, &amp;loop, sizeof (loop)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<DD>SF_TRUE if the file header contains loop information for the file.
SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_GET_INSTRUMENT"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_INSTRUMENT</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve instrument information from file including MIDI base note,
keyboard mapping and looping informations(start/stop and mode).
</P>
<p>
Parameters:
</p>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_INSTRUMENT
data : a pointer to an SF_INSTRUMENT struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_INSTRUMENT)
</PRE>
<P>
The SF_INSTRUMENT struct is defined in &lt;sndfile.h&gt; as:
</P>
<PRE>
enum
{ /*
** The loop mode field in SF_INSTRUMENT will be one of the following.
*/
SF_LOOP_NONE = 800,
SF_LOOP_FORWARD,
SF_LOOP_BACKWARD,
SF_LOOP_ALTERNATING
} ;
typedef struct
{ int gain ;
char basenote, detune ;
char velocity_lo, velocity_hi ;
char key_lo, key_hi ;
int loop_count ;
struct
{ int mode ;
unsigned int start ;
unsigned int end ;
unsigned int count ;
} loops [16] ; /* make variable in a sensible way */
} SF_INSTRUMENT ;
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
SF_INSTRUMENT inst ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_INSTRUMENT, &amp;inst, sizeof (inst)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<dd>SF_TRUE if the file header contains instrument information for the
file. SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_SET_INSTRUMENT"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_INSTRUMENT</B></H2>
<P>
Set the instrument information for the file.
</P>
<p>
Parameters:
</p>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_INSTRUMENT
data : a pointer to an SF_INSTRUMENT struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_INSTRUMENT)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
SF_INSTRUMENT inst ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_INSTRUMENT, &amp;inst, sizeof (inst)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<dd>SF_TRUE if the file header contains instrument information for the
file. SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_GET_CUE"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_CUE_COUNT</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve the number of cue markers available for retrieval using the
SFC_GET_CUE command.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_CUE
data : a pointer to a uint32_t
datasize : sizeof (uint32_t)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
uint32_t cue_count ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_CUE_COUNT, &amp;cue_count, sizeof (cue_count)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<dd>SF_TRUE if the file header contains cue marker information for the
file. SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_GET_CUE"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_GET_CUE</B></H2>
<P>
Retrieve cue marker information from file.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_GET_CUE
data : a pointer to an SF_CUES struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_CUES)
</PRE>
<P>
The SF_CUES struct is defined in &lt;sndfile.h&gt; as:
</P>
<PRE>
typedef struct
{ int cue_count ;
struct
{ int32_t indx ;
uint32_t position ;
int32_t fcc_chunk ;
int32_t chunk_start ;
int32_t block_start ;
uint32_t sample_offset ;
char name [256] ;
} cue_points [100] ;
} SF_CUES ;
</PRE>
<P>
There is also an SF_CUES_VAR #define that allows reading/writing more than 100
cue markers.
</P>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
SF_CUES cues ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_GET_CUE, &amp;cues, sizeof (cues)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<dd>SF_TRUE if the file header contains cue marker information for the
file. SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<A NAME="SFC_SET_CUE"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_SET_CUE</B></H2>
<P>
Set the cue marker information for the file.
</P>
<P>
Parameters:
</P>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_SET_CUE
data : a pointer to an SF_CUES struct
datasize : sizeof (SF_CUES)
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
SF_CUES cues ;
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_SET_CUE, &amp;cues, sizeof (cues)) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<dd>SF_TRUE if the file header contains cue marker information for the
file. SF_FALSE otherwise.
</DL>
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<A NAME="SFC_RF64_AUTO_DOWNGRADE"></A>
<H2><BR><B>SFC_RF64_AUTO_DOWNGRADE</B></H2>
<P>
Enable auto downgrade from RF64 to WAV.
</P>
<P>
The EBU recomendation is that when writing RF64 files and the resulting file is
less than 4Gig in size, it should be downgraded to a WAV file (WAV files have a
maximum size of 4Gig).
libsndfile doesn't follow the EBU recommendations exactly, , mainly because the
test suite needs to be able test reading/writing RF64 files without having to
generate files larger than 4 gigabytes.
</P>
<p>
Note: This command should be issued before the first bit of audio data has been
written to the file.
Calling this command after audio data has been written will return the current
value of this setting, but will not allow it to be changed.
</p>
<p>
Parameters:
</p>
<PRE>
sndfile : A valid SNDFILE* pointer
cmd : SFC_RF64_AUTO_DOWNGRADE
data : NULL
datasize : SF_TRUE or SF_FALSE
</PRE>
<P>
Example:
</P>
<PRE>
/* Enable auto downgrade on file close. */
sf_command (sndfile, SFC_RF64_AUTO_DOWNGRADE, NULL, SF_TRUE) ;
</PRE>
<DL>
<DT>Return value:</DT>
<dd>Returns SF_TRUE if SFC_RF64_AUTO_DOWNGRADE is set and SF_FALSE
otherwise.
</DL>
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