64bit wav files not readable in Praat on Windows

[Jellevanderwerff]

Apparently the wav files that thebeat saves cannot be opened in Praat on Windows (on Mac it works):

[Jellevanderwerff]

At some point we changed all datatypes to float64. I guess we can simply change those back to 32

[YannickJadoul]

Seems to be unrelated to the operating system. Praat introduced support for reading 64-bit floating point WAVE files in 6.0.53 (26 May 2019). See https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/What_was_new_in_6_1_.html and https://github.com/praat/praat/commit/c83430d5195d00ba03d20c5553ed06037fcc5f84.

So, I see two, not mutually-exclusive, solutions:

• Update Praat to read these files (this version change is almost 4 years old).
• Let's have thebeat write a more common format of WAVE files by default (16-bit integers? Is there a way to figure out what's the more common/default storage format inside of WAVE files?). We could make the format to save an optional parameter to this function, but the default output file format should be something widely readable (even with 4-year old programs).

[Jellevanderwerff]

solved in 6e2c0e7fcf3a3ff1ca8bcc8258c524b12e9c86e0