How can I combine multiple wav files into a single new wav file

I have a folder with six 1-minute wav files. I want to have a script that will combine all wav files in a folder into a new 6-minute wav file. I'm super new at matlab and don't know where to start.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Use audioread to read them, then vertically concatenate them (assuming they all have the same numbers of channels=columns) using the cat function.

[Benjamin Colbert]

They are all recordings from the same recorder (recorder 1min every ten). Do you have any sample code?

[Walter Roberson]

[f1, fs] = audioread(first_file);
f2 = audioread(second_file);

combined = [f1;f2];

sound(combined, fs)

[Star Strider]

@Walter — Thank you.

Ideally, they all have tthe same sampling frequency (sampling rate) as well.

[Benjamin Colbert]

@Walter - wouldn't this simply play the sound? I need to write it to a new file. Also, this would require me to copy and past in the name of each wav file, making it nearly as much time as using Audacity. I want to give MATLAB a file and tell it to combine all the wav files in that file.

[Star Strider]

If you need to write the vertically concatenated sounds as a new file, use the audiowrite function.

[Walter Roberson]

http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_process_a_sequence_of_files.3F