How to join 2 or more .WAV files together programmatically?
Here's a basic WAV concatenation function built using NAudio. This will ensure that only the data chunks are concatenated (unlike the code example in this CodeProject article linked in another answer). It will also protect you against concatenating WAV files that do not share the same format.
public static void Concatenate(string outputFile, IEnumerable<string> sourceFiles)
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
WaveFileWriter waveFileWriter = null;
try
{
foreach (string sourceFile in sourceFiles)
{
using (WaveFileReader reader = new WaveFileReader(sourceFile))
{
if (waveFileWriter == null)
{
// first time in create new Writer
waveFileWriter = new WaveFileWriter(outputFile, reader.WaveFormat);
}
else
{
if (!reader.WaveFormat.Equals(waveFileWriter.WaveFormat))
{
throw new InvalidOperationException("Can't concatenate WAV Files that don't share the same format");
}
}
int read;
while ((read = reader.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
{
waveFileWriter.WriteData(buffer, 0, read);
}
}
}
}
finally
{
if (waveFileWriter != null)
{
waveFileWriter.Dispose();
}
}
}
How to join two wav files together not one after the other
The WAV file format is a chunked layout, typically with a header at the front specifying the format, then a data chunk with the audio data. This is why you can't simply cat the 2 files together.
If this something you only need to do once, you can download a free audio editor such as Audicity, load both files in and then save out the appended version.
Good luck!
how to concatenate 2 wave files in Stream?
WAV files are not simply an array of bytes, each WAV file has a 44-byte header (the RIFF header) to tell any software how to play it back. Among other things, this header contains information about the length of the file, so in concatenating two WAV files the way you're doing it, you'll end up with two big problems. Firstly, the first WAV file will still have its old header at the start, which will tell your software that the file shorter than it actually is, and secondly, the header of the second WAV file will be stuck in middle of your new file, which will probably sound very strange if you play it back!
So when you're concatenating your files, you'll need to do the following:
- Remove the first 44 bytes of each file
- Concatenate the two byte
arrays - Create a new header according to the RIFF header specification
- Put this header at the
front of your concatenated byte arrays - Call
WaveFileReader wavFileReader = new
WaveFileReader(outputSound);
Mixing or Combine some wav files
There are several ways to do it.
My recommendation is to write a custom wave class which can read and write wave files, because unlike some other music files, the main info of a wave file is stored in its header.
Here's the detailed wave file format specification. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/
Another way to bypass the painful decoding is using a third party library, such as NAudio.
Merging two WAVE files on Android (concatenate)
i do this exactly in my android app. Instead of two, i merge multiple files based on users selection. I use AsyncTask to merge the samples in the background. Take a look at it here. Just filter the section that you need. If you are curious about my app, its called Sound Recorder + Pro, Beside merge i do mix, add echo and amplify samples:
@Override
protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
isProcessingOn=true;
try {
DataOutputStream amplifyOutputStream = new DataOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Soundrecpluspro/" + year +"-"+ month +"-"+ date +"-"+ hour+"-" + min +"-"+ sec+"ME.wav")));
DataInputStream[] mergeFilesStream = new DataInputStream[selection.size()];
long[] sizes=new long[selection.size()];
for(int i=0; i<selection.size(); i++) {
File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Soundrecpluspro/" +selection.get(i));
sizes[i] = (file.length()-44)/2;
}
for(int i =0; i<selection.size(); i++) {
mergeFilesStream[i] =new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Soundrecpluspro/" +selection.get(i))));
if(i == selection.size()-1) {
mergeFilesStream[i].skip(24);
byte[] sampleRt = new byte[4];
mergeFilesStream[i].read(sampleRt);
ByteBuffer bbInt = ByteBuffer.wrap(sampleRt).order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
RECORDER_SAMPLERATE = bbInt.getInt();
mergeFilesStream[i].skip(16);
}
else {
mergeFilesStream[i].skip(44);
}
}
for(int b=0; b<selection.size(); b++) {
for(int i=0; i<(int)sizes[b]; i++) {
byte[] dataBytes = new byte[2];
try {
dataBytes[0] = mergeFilesStream[b].readByte();
dataBytes[1] = mergeFilesStream[b].readByte();
}
catch (EOFException e) {
amplifyOutputStream.close();
}
short dataInShort = ByteBuffer.wrap(dataBytes).order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN).getShort();
float dataInFloat= (float) dataInShort/37268.0f;
short outputSample = (short)(dataInFloat * 37268.0f);
byte[] dataFin = new byte[2];
dataFin[0] = (byte) (outputSample & 0xff);
dataFin[1] = (byte)((outputSample >> 8) & 0xff);
amplifyOutputStream.write(dataFin, 0 , 2);
}
}
amplifyOutputStream.close();
for(int i=0; i<selection.size(); i++) {
mergeFilesStream[i].close();
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
long size =0;
try {
FileInputStream fileSize = new FileInputStream(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Soundrecpluspro/"+year +"-"+ month +"-"+ date +"-"+ hour+"-" + min +"-"+ sec+"ME.wav");
size = fileSize.getChannel().size();
fileSize.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
final int RECORDER_BPP = 16;
long datasize=size+36;
long byteRate = (RECORDER_BPP * RECORDER_SAMPLERATE)/8;
long longSampleRate = RECORDER_SAMPLERATE;
byte[] header = new byte[44];
header[0] = 'R'; // RIFF/WAVE header
header[1] = 'I';
header[2] = 'F';
header[3] = 'F';
header[4] = (byte) (datasize & 0xff);
header[5] = (byte) ((datasize >> 8) & 0xff);
header[6] = (byte) ((datasize >> 16) & 0xff);
header[7] = (byte) ((datasize >> 24) & 0xff);
header[8] = 'W';
header[9] = 'A';
header[10] = 'V';
header[11] = 'E';
header[12] = 'f'; // 'fmt ' chunk
header[13] = 'm';
header[14] = 't';
header[15] = ' ';
header[16] = 16; // 4 bytes: size of 'fmt ' chunk
header[17] = 0;
header[18] = 0;
header[19] = 0;
header[20] = 1; // format = 1
header[21] = 0;
header[22] = (byte) 1;
header[23] = 0;
header[24] = (byte) (longSampleRate & 0xff);
header[25] = (byte) ((longSampleRate >> 8) & 0xff);
header[26] = (byte) ((longSampleRate >> 16) & 0xff);
header[27] = (byte) ((longSampleRate >> 24) & 0xff);
header[28] = (byte) (byteRate & 0xff);
header[29] = (byte) ((byteRate >> 8) & 0xff);
header[30] = (byte) ((byteRate >> 16) & 0xff);
header[31] = (byte) ((byteRate >> 24) & 0xff);
header[32] = (byte) ((RECORDER_BPP) / 8); // block align
header[33] = 0;
header[34] = RECORDER_BPP; // bits per sample
header[35] = 0;
header[36] = 'd';
header[37] = 'a';
header[38] = 't';
header[39] = 'a';
header[40] = (byte) (size & 0xff);
header[41] = (byte) ((size >> 8) & 0xff);
header[42] = (byte) ((size >> 16) & 0xff);
header[43] = (byte) ((size >> 24) & 0xff);
// out.write(header, 0, 44);
try {
RandomAccessFile rFile = new RandomAccessFile(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Soundrecpluspro/" +year +"-"+ month +"-"+ date +"-"+ hour+"-" + min +"-"+ sec+ "ME.wav", "rw");
rFile.seek(0);
rFile.write(header);
rFile.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
How to programmatically combine .wav files?
1) create a new destination sample buffer (you will want to know the sizes).
2) read the samples (e.g. using AudioFile and ExtAudioFile APIs) and write them in sequence to the buffer. You may want to add silence between the files.
It will help if your files are all the same bit depth (the destination bit depth - 16 should be fine) and sample rate.
Alternatively, if you have fixed, known, sample rates and bit depths for all files, you could just save them as raw sample data and be done in much less time because you could simply append the data as is without writing all the extra audio file reading programs.
How to merge the two audio files into a single audio file in android?
private void mergeSongs(File mergedFile,File...mp3Files){
FileInputStream fisToFinal = null;
FileOutputStream fos = null;
try {
fos = new FileOutputStream(mergedFile);
fisToFinal = new FileInputStream(mergedFile);
for(File mp3File:mp3Files){
if(!mp3File.exists())
continue;
FileInputStream fisSong = new FileInputStream(mp3File);
SequenceInputStream sis = new SequenceInputStream(fisToFinal, fisSong);
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
try {
for (int readNum; (readNum = fisSong.read(buf)) != -1;)
fos.write(buf, 0, readNum);
} finally {
if(fisSong!=null){
fisSong.close();
}
if(sis!=null){
sis.close();
}
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}finally{
try {
if(fos!=null){
fos.flush();
fos.close();
}
if(fisToFinal!=null){
fisToFinal.close();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
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