Normalizing audio, how to convert a float array to a byte array?

Question

Hi all, I am playing an audio file. I read it as a byte[] and then I need to normalize the audio by putting values into range of [-1,1]. I want to then put each flo

Answer 1

You can change temp to a list of byte arrays to avoid overwriting it all the time.

    byte[] data = new byte[] { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 };  // sample data
    IList temp = new List(data.Length);
    float biggest = 0; ;

    for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++)
    {
        if (data[i] > biggest)
            biggest = data[i];
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++)
    {
        temp.Add(BitConverter.GetBytes(data[i] * (1 / biggest)));
    }