third_party_libsnd/Octave/sndfile_load.m

## Copyright (C) 2002-2011  Erik de Castro Lopo
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} sndfile_load (@var{filename})
## Load data from the file given by @var{filename}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>
## Description: Load the sound data from the given file name

function [data fs] = sndfile_load (filename)

if (nargin != 1),
	error ("Need an input filename") ;
	endif

samplerate = -1 ;
samplingrate = -1 ;
wavedata = -1 ;


eval (sprintf ('load -f %s', filename)) ;

if (samplerate > 0),
	fs = samplerate ;
elseif (samplingrate > 0),
	fs = samplingrate ;
else
	error ("Not able to find sample rate.") ;
	endif

if (max (size (wavedata)) > 1),
	data = wavedata ;
else
	error ("Not able to find waveform data.") ;
	endif

endfunction