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+## Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Erik de Castro Lopo
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} sndfile_load (@var{filename})
+## Load data from the file given by @var{filename}.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>
+## Description: Load the sound data from the given file name
+
+function [data fs] = sndfile_load (filename)
+
+if (nargin != 1),
+ error ("Need an input filename") ;
+ endif
+
+samplerate = -1 ;
+samplingrate = -1 ;
+wavedata = -1 ;
+
+
+eval (sprintf ('load -f %s', filename)) ;
+
+if (samplerate > 0),
+ fs = samplerate ;
+elseif (samplingrate > 0),
+ fs = samplingrate ;
+else
+ error ("Not able to find sample rate.") ;
+ endif
+
+if (max (size (wavedata)) > 1),
+ data = wavedata ;
+else
+ error ("Not able to find waveform data.") ;
+ endif
+
+endfunction