This is an error message I put in in the course of tweaking the WAV
parsing. It should only occur if you are trying to read a compressed
format (ADPCM, mu-law etc), which has extra data in the header. Csound can
only accept uncompressed  WAV files - 8, 16 or 32bit.

What is your 'standard wave recorder'?
It is worth checking the Multimedia settings under Control Panel, to make
sure that the recording quality is set to 'CD Quality'.

All versions of Cool Edit will load a file in one format and write it out
in another, and this is true of most waveform editors these days - though
Cool seems to cover more formats than most.

Richard Dobson

Ruston, Paul wrote:

> Stupid question number 2:
>
> New user - using Csound for Win95 - Computer idiot
>
> What's the best way to create soundin files.  I had an error trying to
> use a sample I created in one of the standard wave recorders.  The
> message was something like "Error - is wave file compressed?"
> Does it want a compressed file or an uncompressed file?  and how can I
> change this file to the prefered format.
>
> Thanks for your patience.