How can I generate an array of floats from an audio file in Swift

Question

I would like to load mp3 and wav audio files as arrays of floats or doubles, similar to the io.wavfile.read function in scipy. I can do this with microphone data or playing

Answer 1

It's really tricky to find everything about UnsafeBufferPointer

Here I am posting updated code for Swift 5.0

if let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "silence", withExtension: "mp3") {
    let file = try! AVAudioFile(forReading: url)
    if let format = AVAudioFormat(commonFormat: .pcmFormatFloat32, sampleRate: file.fileFormat.sampleRate, channels: 1, interleaved: false) {
        if let buf = AVAudioPCMBuffer(pcmFormat: format, frameCapacity: 1024) {
            try! file.read(into: buf)

            // this makes a copy, you might not want that
            let floatArray = UnsafeBufferPointer(start: buf.floatChannelData![0], count:Int(buf.frameLength))
            // convert to data
            var data = Data()
            for buf in floatArray {
                data.append(withUnsafeBytes(of: buf) { Data($0) })
            }
            // use the data if required.
        }
    }
}

Hope it will help you :)