WAV Info for Node.JS

A lightweight module that parses WAV information data from a wav file or buffer containing wav data into a Javascript Object. Basically retrieves file and header meta data information from a WAV file.

Used for:

• Determining the validity of a .wav file
• Detecting the bit depth / bit rate / bits per sample of a .wav file
• Detecting the Sample Rate of a .wav file
• Detecting the number of channels in a .wav file
• Retrieving the file information, including file size, created date etc

Usage

npm install wav-info --save

var wavInfo = require('wav-info');

wavInfo.infoByFile(WAV_FILE_PATH, function(err, info) { // './test.wav', '/audio/test.wav'
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log(info);
});

wavInfo.infoByBuffer(WAV_FILE_BUFFER, function(err, info) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log(info);
});

if err is not null, the WAV file is valid.

From the command line you can run:

node wfi.js <filename>

Result (infoByFile)

{ header:
   { riff_head: 'RIFF',
     chunk_size: 1697504,
     wave_identifier: 'WAVE',
     fmt_identifier: 'fmt ',
     subchunk_size: 16,
     audio_format: 1,
     num_channels: 2,
     sample_rate: 44100,
     byte_rate: 45328,
     block_align: 4,
     bits_per_sample: 16,
     data_identifier: 'PAD ' },
  stats:
   { dev: 16777220,
     mode: 33184,
     nlink: 1,
     uid: 501,
     gid: 20,
     rdev: 0,
     blksize: 4096,
     ino: 71128242,
     size: 1697512,
     blocks: 3320,
     atime: Sun Nov 29 2015 10:13:15 GMT-0700 (MST),
     mtime: Sat May 23 2015 12:45:00 GMT-0600 (MDT),
     ctime: Thu Nov 12 2015 14:31:37 GMT-0700 (MST),
     birthtime: Sat May 23 2015 12:44:55 GMT-0600 (MDT)
  },
  duration: 9.623038548752834
}

Result (infoByBuffer)

{ header:
   { riff_head: 'RIFF',
     chunk_size: 1697504,
     wave_identifier: 'WAVE',
     fmt_identifier: 'fmt ',
     subchunk_size: 16,
     audio_format: 1,
     num_channels: 2,
     sample_rate: 44100,
     byte_rate: 45328,
     block_align: 4,
     bits_per_sample: 16,
     data_identifier: 'PAD ' },
  stats:
   { size: 1697512,
  },
  duration: 9.623038548752834
}

Example errors

{ error: true,
  invalid_reasons:
   [ 'Expected "RIFF" string at 0',
     'Expected "WAVE" string at 4',
     'Expected "fmt " string at 8',
     'Unknown format: 25711',
     'chunk_size does not match file size' ] }

Duration is in seconds. Stats on infoByFile come from Node raw fs.statSync() result.

References: http://soundfile.sapp.org/doc/WaveFormat/

TODO: Deep scan [avg amplitude, max amplitude], fork for AIFF