Reads the fields of the RIFF lists of a wave file. The list of information
is where a recorder, an editor or an archive writes what it has to say about
a recording in no particular format: ICMT holds a comment, which is where
AudioMoth firmware records the settings a recording was made with, INAM a
name, IART an artist and ICRD a date. A file holding no list gives an
empty result rather than an error.
Details
Fields of the list of information are named by their own four-character
identifiers. A file may hold other lists, most often adtl, which carries
the labels of cue points rather than anything about the recording as a
whole; the fields of those are named by their list as well, as in
adtl/labl. A label read here is the text alone: wavCues() reads the same
labels with the positions in the recording they name. A list written as
list rather than LIST, as some writers do, is read as any other.
See also
readMetadata() reads this and every other metadata format a file
carries at once, and guano(), bext(), wamd() and ixml() read the
other formats on their own.
Examples
f <- system.file("extdata/AUDIOMOTH.WAV", package="sonicscrewdriver")
wavInfo(f)
#> ICMT Recorded at 23:32:00 01/05/2021 (UTC) by AudioMoth 240435055C7B17DB at medium gain setting while battery state was 4.1V and temperature was 5.8C.
#> IART AudioMoth 240435055C7B17DB