How to get PCM data from a wav file?

Question

I have a .wav file. I want to get the PCM data from that sound file, so that I can get the individual data chunks from the sound and process it.

But I

Answer 1

This can be done with the Java Sound API.

• Use the AudioSystem to get an AudioInputStream from the file.
• Query the stream for the AudioFormat.
• Create a byte[] to suit the format. E.G. 8 bit mono is a byte[1]. 16 bit stereo is byte[4].
• Read the stream in chunks of the byte[] and it will contain the sound, frame by frame.
• Proceed with further processing..