Recommend ways for accepting the wav file format through TCPClient

YL618 1

Hello,

I'm working on a task of sending a wav file from python based JupytherNotebook to the Unity engine.
I didn't have much experience with socket communication before and was overwhelmed by all kinds of methods on the internet, all the direct introduction is about sending text rather than audio files. There's also a straightforward method for sending and receiving an audio file in python but the technique is only limited to python. And when I searched on socket communication of files there were a bunch of results on encoding/decoding formats which I think is way too detailed and complicated than I need.

My work is following the problem mentioned in this link. I would appreciate it a lot if someone could point me to some valuable resources and methods on how I should encode for sending on the python side(e.g. UTF8 format) and decode for receiving on the Unity side.

Jack J Jun 24,496 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-10-06T06:29:24.907+00:00

@YL618 , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, Since your problem is related to python and unity, which is not supported in Microsoft Q&A. I recommend that you could ask the question in python or unity forum.

Thanks for your understanding.
Lex Li (Microsoft) 5,322 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-10-08T06:51:52.563+00:00

TCP connections are often used to pass raw bytes. So, read all bytes from a file on one side, send them over the wire, and save all bytes on the other side to a file. You can see there isn't anything about format/encoding here as you are moving the same bytes (1s and 0s) over. Encoding like UTF8 only matters when the bytes are consumed and convert to displayable contents, so many text files have their encodings recorded in the beginning of the raw bytes as indicators. For WAV files, you almost don't need to think about such issues.

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Recommend ways for accepting the wav file format through TCPClient