Failed to open file file.wav as a WAV due to: file does not start with RIFF id
Solution 1
What you have is a 64-bit RIFF. wave
does not support 64-bit RIFF files.
Solution 2
If your audio is okay, and you are able to read the file with librosa or scipy.io, we can simply read the file, write it back to a temporary wav file and then read it with the wave package again.
Example. Below, we get the RIFF id error.
>>> import wave
>>> wave.open('./SA1.WAV')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/pytorch/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/wave.py", line 499, in open
return Wave_read(f)
File "/home/pytorch/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/wave.py", line 163, in __init__
self.initfp(f)
File "/home/pytorch/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/wave.py", line 130, in initfp
raise Error('file does not start with RIFF id')
wave.Error: file does not start with RIFF id
We read into numpy with librosa, write back with soundfile.
import librosa
import soundfile as sf
>>> x,_ = librosa.load('./SA1.WAV', sr=16000)
>>> sf.write('tmp.wav', x, 16000)
>>> wave.open('tmp.wav','r')
<wave.Wave_read object at 0x7fbcb4c8cf28>
Solution 3
Similar to @kakrafoon 's answer but using soundfile
to both read and write (in case you care about limiting the number of external dependencies):
import soundfile
import wave
file_path = "your_file.wav"
# Read and rewrite the file with soundfile
data, samplerate = soundfile.read(file_path)
soundfile.write(file_path, data, samplerate)
# Now try to open the file with wave
with wave.open(file_path) as file:
print('File opened!')
Solution 4
I have a word-around, I rename the file's suffix to "mp3" and convert it to "wav", then I could be able to read it.
subprocess.call(['ffmpeg', '-i', 'XXX.mp3', 'XXX.wav'])
Alex
Updated on July 29, 2022Comments
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Alex almost 2 years
I am getting this error when trying to open a RIFF file (which as I understand it is a type of WAV) in python.
Failed to open file file.wav as a WAV due to: file does not start with RIFF id
When I inspect it with various tools which leads me to believe that it is really a WAV / RIFF file.
$ file file.wav file.wav: MBWF/RF64 audio, stereo 96000 Hz $ file -i file.wav file.wav: audio/x-wav; charset=binary $ mediainfo file.wav General Complete name : file.wav Format : Wave Format profile : RF64 File size : 4.10 GiB Duration : 2h 7mn Overall bit rate mode : Constant Overall bit rate : 4 608 Kbps Audio Format : PCM Format settings, Endianness : Little Format settings, Sign : Signed Codec ID : 1 Duration : 2h 7mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 4 608 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 96.0 KHz Bit depth : 24 bits Stream size : 4.10 GiB (100%)