This is something of an off-the-cuff guess, as I know nothing of the dec
alpha...but it may be that byte-swapping of WAVE-format data is not
happening as it should  (or happening when it shouldn't). WAV files are
indigenous to the (W)Intel platform; try using AIFF format soundfiles
instead.


Richard Dobson
http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/rwd

Jonathan L Dubois wrote:
> 
> Hello, I'm new to csound -- about a week now :)
> 
> I've installed csound-3.482 on a dec alpha running linux and
> I'm having trouble reading and writting formatted files.  For example:
> 
> %csound -W -o intro.wav intro.orc intro.sco
> %csound -U sndinfo test.wav
> util SNDINFO:
> test.wav:
>         no recognizable soundfile header
> %sox test.wav -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
> sox: WAVE header not found
> 
> If I have an instrument that uses soundin on a file with a valid
> header, it cant read it either.
> 
> on the other hand,
> 
> %csound -o devaudio intro.orc intro.sco
> 
> works fine...
>