Installing waver

To install your super-duper wave reader into your node.js aplication just run the following:

    npm install waver

Simple usage

You will need an audio buffer (only WAVE PCM without compression is supported at this time). The following sample code should get you started:

var waver = require('waver');

var audioBuffer = require('fs').readFileSync('pathToYourFile');

waver.readRaw(audioBuffer, function(e,wave){ 
  
  if (e) console.log('Error: ', e);
  
  console.log(wave);

});

This will output the following JSON structure:

{ RIFFChunk: { ChunkID: 'RIFF', Format: 'WAVE', ChunkSize: 17147876 },
  FormatChunk: 
   { Subchunk1ID: 'fmt ',
     Subchunk1Size: 16,
     AudioFormat: 1,
     NumChannels: 1,
     SampleRate: 8000,
     ByteRate: 16000,
     BlockAlign: 2,
     BitsPerSample: 16 },
  DataChunk: 
   { Subchunk2ID: 'data',
     Subchunk2Size: 17147840,
     Data: <Buffer 08 00 08 00 08 00 08 00 08 00 08 00 08 00 08 00 08 00 0 ...> } }

Instead of readRaw you can use the read method to return an aditional element with the audio data in a numeric form.