EByte Case Study Reading Every Chunk of a WAV File

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 a title and the software name, and some put it before the audio, some after. EByte 0.2.0 adds a repeat field for this, and this case study tries it on a WAV file with metadata, using the released ebyte 0.2.0 Linux binary downloaded from GitHub. Its checksum matched SHA256SUMS before anything ran.

EByte Launches One Schema for Reading and Writing Binary Files

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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: you describe a format once, and that single description reads files, writes them and explains them.

Here’s the usual situation it’s meant for. A device exports a file, or an old program saves one, and you need to look inside it, change a value and save it again. You end up writing a reader. Then a writer, which has to agree with the reader to the byte. Then, when a file won’t load, you open a hex editor and count bytes by hand to find out which field went wrong. That’s three descriptions of the same format, and they drift.

Releases on ebyte.org

EByte Case Study Reading Every Chunk of a WAV File

EByte Launches One Schema for Reading and Writing Binary Files