byte array to short array and back again in java

Question

I\'m having some issues taking audio data stored in a byte array, converting it to a big-endian short array, encoding it, then changing it back into a byte array. Here is wh

Answer 1

byte[2] bytes;

int r = bytes[1] & 0xFF;
r = (r << 8) | (bytes[0] & 0xFF);

short s = (short)r;