tuneR (version 0.4-2)

readMP3: Read an MPEG-2 layer 3 file into a Wave object

Description

A bare bones MPEG-2 layer 3 (MP3) file reader that returns the results as 16bit PCM data stored in a Wave object.

Usage

readMP3(filename)

Arguments

filename

Filename of MP3 file.

Value

• A Wave object.

concept

• MP3
• file
• sound
• music
• speech

References

The decoder source code is taken from the MAD library, see http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/.

See Also

Wave

Examples

## Requires an mp3 file named sample.mp3 in the current directory.
mpt <- readMP3("sample.mp3")
summary(mpt)