Extract Fast Fourier Transform data from file

Question

I am building a tool which is supposed to run on a server and analyze sound files. I want to do this in Ruby as all my other tools are written in Ruby as well. But I am hav

Answer 1

Here's the final solution to what I was trying to achieve, thanks a lot to Randall Cook's helpful advice. The code to extract sound wave and FFT of a wav file in Ruby:

require "ruby-audio"
require "fftw3"

fname = ARGV[0]
window_size = 1024
wave = Array.new
fft = Array.new(window_size/2,[])

begin
    buf = RubyAudio::Buffer.float(window_size)
    RubyAudio::Sound.open(fname) do |snd|
        while snd.read(buf) != 0
            wave.concat(buf.to_a)
            na = NArray.to_na(buf.to_a)
            fft_slice = FFTW3.fft(na).to_a[0, window_size/2]
            j=0
            fft_slice.each { |x| fft[j] << x; j+=1 }
        end
    end

rescue => err
    log.error "error reading audio file: " + err
    exit
end

# now I can work on analyzing the "fft" and "wave" arrays...