C++ reading 16bit Wav file

Question

I\'m having trouble reading in a 16bit .wav file. I have read in the header information, however, the conversion does not seem to work.

For example, in Matlab if I r

Answer 1

A 16-bit quantity gives you a range from -32,768 to 32,767, not from -256 to 255 (that's just 9 bits). Use:

for (int i = 0; i < size; i += 2)
{
    c = (data[i + 1] << 8) + data[i]; // WAV files are little-endian
    double t = (c - 32768)/32768.0;
    rawSignal.push_back(t);
}