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corban YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 35 Canada	Minim: How to scan and audio file without playing Sep 15th, 2008, 11:28pm   Im trying to quickly scan a wav file to draw the wave form of the entire file. Not sure how to seek through a sound file without playing it. Has anyone done this before.

corban YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 35 Canada	Re: Minim: How to scan and audio file without play Reply #1 - Sep 25th, 2008, 5:25pm   I dont think you can do this with Minim, I switched to Ess and found a way to step through the audio file quickly and get process the FFT spectrum.

ddf Full Member Offline Posts: 241

Re: Minim: How to scan and audio file without play Reply #2 - Oct 28th, 2008, 2:03am   You are correct, this is not currently possible with Minim unless you load the file into an AudioSample and then use getSample to get an entire channel as a float[]. Obviously that's not ideal if you want to step through a very large file. I will probably add the ability to do that with an AudioPlayer at some point.

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