scipy.io.wavfile.read cannot read 24-bits .wav files

Question

It seems that scipy.io.wavfile.read cannot read 24-bits .wav files. Do you have an idea on how to handle them ?

Answer 1

scipy.io.wavfile.read can read 24-bits .wav files since release 1.6 : https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-1.6.0/reference/release.1.6.0.html#scipy-io-improvements

Answer 2

If your wav files are not compressed, you can try the readwav function here: https://gist.github.com/WarrenWeckesser/7461781

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Update

I converted that gist to a python package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wavio

The source code is on github: https://github.com/WarrenWeckesser/wavio