Error: file does not start with RIFF id

Question

This line of code is throwing an error:

import wave
...
wave.open('/path/to/wavfile/1a.wav', "rb")

The 1a.wav is in the NIST SPHERE format. I don't have much experience with the wav formats, but is there anyway I could transform it into RIFF format so that I can open it with the "wave" library?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Use ffmpeg to convert. eg

ffmpeg -i test.wav -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 1 -ar 16000 out.wav