[Numpy-discussion] 24bit arrays

[Simon Burton]

On Mon, 29 May 2006 14:00:34 +0200
"Maxim Krikun" <maxim.krikun at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> The typical 24bit audio file contains two interleaved channels, i.e.
> frames of 3bytes+3bytes, so it can be cast to (nframes,3) Int32, or
> (nframes,2,3) Int8 array, but this is hardly a useful representation for
> audio data.

Why not ? It's good for slicing and dicing, anything else and
you should convert it to float before operating on it.

Simon.

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