endolith / waveform-analysis

Functions and scripts for analyzing waveforms, primarily audio. This is currently somewhat disorganized and unfinished.
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Why are you loading whole file in memory #3

Open klonuo opened 11 years ago

klonuo commented 11 years ago

?

endolith commented 11 years ago

because I'm lazy busy, and my computer has plenty of memory to fit any files I want to measure?

of course it would be more efficient to read the file in chunks, but that complicates things like counting zero crossings or doing really long autocorrelations.