Does wavread not work with macs?

Trying to finish a final project that is due tomorrow.

I have to demo my program on my mac, but what I'm testing now is just producing errors, even when I simplify it to just playing my .wav files.

I listed:

[y Fs nBit] = wavread('audio.wav')
handles.runsound = audioplayer(y, 41000, 16)
play(handles.runsound);

The error reports that it cannot open the file at the first line.

Wavread reports, "error(wavread:InvalidFile', mag);

I got the same files/code to work on windows, and I can't find anything definitive that I can't use these functions with mac. Is there anything I should be using in place of them?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

This code (from "doc wavread") works for me on a Mac:

% Create WAV file in current folder.
load handel.mat

hfile = 'handel.wav';
wavwrite(y, Fs, hfile)
clear y Fs

% Read the data back into MATLAB, and listen to audio.
[y, Fs, nbits, readinfo] = wavread(hfile);
sound(y, Fs);

[Meaghan]

can i make this work for .wav music files? (instead of loading a matlab audio file)

[Walter Roberson]

handel.wav is a .wav music file once it has been created by wavwrite()

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Picking a random file worked for me on OS-X Lion, at least in R2013a. Well, the very first one gave me the message

Error using wavread (line 165)
Invalid Wave File. Reason: Data compression format (GSM 6.10) is not supported.

but the second one I picked worked fine.

Answer 3

[arpit agarwal]

Error using wavread (line 165) Invalid Wave File. Reason: Data compression format (GSM 6.10) is not supported. this is show me when i read the wav file. what i do

[Walter Roberson]

Unfortunately there is not really anything you can do. wavread() was a more limited routine, one that has not been available for several years now, so there is no updated version that can solve the problem. If you are using R2012b or later, you should be switching to audioread() which is more flexible in the files it supported.