shouldn't rely on file extension

[bart9h]

libnyquist decodes "myfile.mp3" just fine.

But if I rename it to "myfile.data", it gives some kind of format error.

Shouldn't the library read the header from the beginning of the file, instead of relying on the file extension?

[4321ba]

if you need to work around it, you can read in the file yourself
and pass only the raw encoded audio to libnyquist like this:

        vector<uint8_t> encoded_audio;
...//read in idk how
        shared_ptr<nqr::AudioData> file_data = make_shared<nqr::AudioData>();
        nqr::NyquistIO loader;
        loader.Load(file_data.get(), encoded_audio);

then it should properly recognize the file format, at least I think so

[ddiakopoulos]

@4321ba Unfortunately it does not!

@bart9h You're definitely right here, that's what the library should do :) I started incubating this feature a long time ago on this branch, but never had time to test and merge it. Happy to accept and PRs to get it working properly.

[4321ba]

hmm does it not? it worked for me though
and like I don't know the codebase but at https://github.com/ddiakopoulos/libnyquist/blob/master/src/Common.cpp#L64 it really seems like it guesses the file type based on magic numbers, properly
this commit: dafe596

[ddiakopoulos]

@4321ba lol, alright my memory was clearly very wrong and I didn't bother to look at the code. Thanks for checking :)