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Wave Info

Overview:

Wave Info is a simple utility that accepts files from the Windows File Manager via Drag & Drop. When a .WAV file is dropped onto the Wave Info icon, a popup window will display information about the recording characteristics of the file. Additionally, you can  Play the file by pressing the button.

Alternately, you can use the File Manager's Associate function to assign .WAV files with WAVEINFO.EXE. If you do this, you can activate Wave Info by simply double-clicking on a .WAV file in the File Manager. If Wave Info is started in this fashion, it will automatically unload itself when you press the OK button.

To turn Wave Info off, use either the Close or the Quit function on the system menu for the icon.

Details

Installation

Registration Info


Details

History:

Wave Info was originally written in Visual Basic 2.0. Since that program made extensive use of various Windows functions that are considered "undocumented" under Visual Basic by Microsoft, this new version has been completely rewritten using Turbo Pascal for Windows.

Wave Header Information:

Name: 	The name of the file, including its full path.

Size on Disk: 	The number of bytes used by the file, as reported by DOS.

File Date: 	The date and time that the file was created.

Channels: 	Mono for 1, Stereo for 2, or a number if there's more than 2 (rare).

Sample Rate: 	The number of samples per second.

Bits/Sample: 	The size of each sample in bits.

Req. Transfer:	This number is used by playback software to allocate buffers for holding the PCM data.

Sound Data: 	This is the byte count of the PCM data, the actual waveform information, from the .WAV header. If this number is more than the value of Size On Disk, the file may not be valid.

Length: 	An approximation of the length of the sampled sound, rounded to the nearest second.


Installation

Wave Info consists of the following files:

WAVEINFO.EXE	The main executable

WAVEINFO.HLP	This help file

BWCC.DLL	Borland's custom control library.

To install, put all these files into your Windows directory and create an icon in the Program Manager for WAVEINFO.EXE.

Note: If you have a copy of BWCC.DLL that is more recent than the one included in the Wave Info distribution, use that copy rather than the one we provide.

You need Windows 3.1 to run Wave Info, since it requires both the Multimedia extensions and the SHELL.DLL File Manager interface.

If you want the truth about penguins, see "Registration."


Registration

Much of the code used in Wave Info was developed for our comprehensive .WAV file utility, Wave Manager. Wave Manager is the "Swiss Army Knife" of .WAV utilities. It allows you to copy, move, delete, play, and see the internal header information for any .WAV file. Wave Manager includes a "collect" function that will search your hard disk for .WAV files, and allow you to move or copy any files found into a directory of your choice. Wave Manager also includes complete support for system events (the [sounds] section of your WIN.INI file).

I'm not a big corporation. I'm just a guy who stays up all night when I should be sleeping. Any contributions are appreciated; I suggest $7, because that's what I'd pay for this program if I hadn't written it. Contributions go to me. I hate nagware, especially in Windows, so I don't do it myself. If you send me $7,  I'll give you any upgrades (if I ever do one,) and I'll give you 50% off the price of the registered edition of Wave Manager ($35) when it's done.

Send check, money order, or stamps (no foodstamps please) to:

Jim Nicholson

PCkS Associates

138 Frances Place

Hillside, NJ 07205

(Make sure that Jim Nicholson appears somewhere on your check, or I won't be able to cash it.)

No penguins were harmed in preparing this document.