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I am trying to write a program to play a frequency for a time. I can't find any way of simply just playing a certain frequency. How do I go about doing this in OpenAL?










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          I eventually found a video on properly reading form a WAV file (huge credit to this video) and how a WAV file is formatted (explained here in detail) and did some trial-and-error work until I figured out how to do it. I figured that if I could make a WAV-style file with the frequencies in them and set up the OpenAL buffer and source manually, it would work.



          I ran into some trouble when I found that the format differed from the first explanation of WAV file format I found, as some apparently have additional meta-data, which I had to test for and skip over when trying to load a WAV file. Then I made a WAV file containing the frequencies and played it, which worked as well as I could have hoped for.



          Here's another article about how bit-depth works that really helped me understand what I was doing.



          Hopefully this helps anyone else who is trying to do something similar to this!






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            I eventually found a video on properly reading form a WAV file (huge credit to this video) and how a WAV file is formatted (explained here in detail) and did some trial-and-error work until I figured out how to do it. I figured that if I could make a WAV-style file with the frequencies in them and set up the OpenAL buffer and source manually, it would work.



            I ran into some trouble when I found that the format differed from the first explanation of WAV file format I found, as some apparently have additional meta-data, which I had to test for and skip over when trying to load a WAV file. Then I made a WAV file containing the frequencies and played it, which worked as well as I could have hoped for.



            Here's another article about how bit-depth works that really helped me understand what I was doing.



            Hopefully this helps anyone else who is trying to do something similar to this!






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              I eventually found a video on properly reading form a WAV file (huge credit to this video) and how a WAV file is formatted (explained here in detail) and did some trial-and-error work until I figured out how to do it. I figured that if I could make a WAV-style file with the frequencies in them and set up the OpenAL buffer and source manually, it would work.



              I ran into some trouble when I found that the format differed from the first explanation of WAV file format I found, as some apparently have additional meta-data, which I had to test for and skip over when trying to load a WAV file. Then I made a WAV file containing the frequencies and played it, which worked as well as I could have hoped for.



              Here's another article about how bit-depth works that really helped me understand what I was doing.



              Hopefully this helps anyone else who is trying to do something similar to this!






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                I eventually found a video on properly reading form a WAV file (huge credit to this video) and how a WAV file is formatted (explained here in detail) and did some trial-and-error work until I figured out how to do it. I figured that if I could make a WAV-style file with the frequencies in them and set up the OpenAL buffer and source manually, it would work.



                I ran into some trouble when I found that the format differed from the first explanation of WAV file format I found, as some apparently have additional meta-data, which I had to test for and skip over when trying to load a WAV file. Then I made a WAV file containing the frequencies and played it, which worked as well as I could have hoped for.



                Here's another article about how bit-depth works that really helped me understand what I was doing.



                Hopefully this helps anyone else who is trying to do something similar to this!






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                I eventually found a video on properly reading form a WAV file (huge credit to this video) and how a WAV file is formatted (explained here in detail) and did some trial-and-error work until I figured out how to do it. I figured that if I could make a WAV-style file with the frequencies in them and set up the OpenAL buffer and source manually, it would work.



                I ran into some trouble when I found that the format differed from the first explanation of WAV file format I found, as some apparently have additional meta-data, which I had to test for and skip over when trying to load a WAV file. Then I made a WAV file containing the frequencies and played it, which worked as well as I could have hoped for.



                Here's another article about how bit-depth works that really helped me understand what I was doing.



                Hopefully this helps anyone else who is trying to do something similar to this!







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