How to identify an acid .wav file?

[urk10]

Is there a way to know if a .wav file has been acidized?I have a bunch of wave files and some are already acidized and I just wanna know which ones are.

Is there a little software or tools that can do that?

Or is there a way to like right click and it says that it's an acid loop?

[manytone]

Good Question.... But as far as I know there is no way to know if it is fully acidized the proper way (as in sliced with the transient detector in Acid 4 pro).


It would be nice if there were such a tool or an easy way to tell though.

I have been loading all my loops i have into acid to be sure they are coded.

Anybody else.

[uncadave]

just for the heck of it i opened an acidized loop in sound forge 7 and one which is not...just a random recording and i couldn't see a diference in the propeties menu or anything. i know when you open an un-acidized loop in acid it tells you it isn't acidized...how do it know??! good question!

[unknown user]

ACIDized WAV files have a 24-byte data chunk appended after the sample data. The data structure is proprietary, but if you search hard enough (hint: open source) you will probably find somebody who has reverse engineered it. The chunk starts with the text "acid". This chunk carries all the tempo and beat slice info. I think you could search for the text "acid" in the WAV file to know whether it's acidized or not. Note that it is possible (but highly unlikely) to have sample data occur in a byte sequence identical to the text.

See http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/wavefiles.html
for description of the RIFF file format....

You can download a free RIFF viewer at
http://www.sonicspot.com/riffview/riffview.html

[opiadream]

and all this time I thought all you had to look for was 2 horns and a tail

[urk10]

Thanks for your help all!

It's a shame that we can't indentify acidized wav so easily.