case studies
EByte Case Study Reading Every Chunk of a WAV File
The first WAV case study used a schema that knew exactly three chunks in a fixed order. Real WAV files aren’t that tidy. Recorders and editors add a LIST chunk with …
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releases
EByte Launches One Schema for Reading and Writing Binary Files
EByte 0.1 is out. It’s a small Go library and a command-line tool for binary file formats, and it does one thing that sounds obvious until you’ve tried it: …
testing
EByte Testing Starts From Bytes Written Down Before the Code
A codec has a sneaky way of passing its own tests. If the decoder and the encoder share a mistake, say both read a count from the wrong byte, then decoding a file and …
use examples
EByte Use Example Checking a Folder of Recordings in a Shell Script
Most of the time nobody opens a binary file by hand. Files arrive from devices, uploads and exports, and something has to decide which ones are fine before anything else …