Wav file shenanigans

March 19,2024

Reading input from users is difficult. I faced this issue with

Python’s default wave library throws this error on specific wave file.

wave.Error: unknown format: 65534

This sucks because now, untrusted wav files can just crash the code. In this case, it is better to utilize Soundfile, which is more robust and is able to I also uploaded this as a pip installable package.

last update: 2024-09-06