Using AudioTrack in Android to play a WAV file

Question

I\'m working with Android, trying to make my AudioTrack application play a Windows .wav file (Tada.wav). Frankly, it shouldn\'t be this hard, but I\'m hearing a lot of stra

Answer 1

As said by Aaron C, you have to skip initial 44 bytes or (as I prefer) read first 44 bytes that are the WAVE header. In this way you know how many channels, bits per sample, length, etc... the WAVE contains.

Here you can find a good implementation of a WAVE header parser/writer.