Convert Bytes to bits - java

I'm working with java.
I have a byte array (8 bits in each position of the array) and what I need to do is to put together 2 of the values of the array and get a value.
I'll try to explain myself better; I'm extracting audio data from a audio file. This data is stored in a byte array. Each audio sample has a size of 16 bits. If the array is:
byte[] audioData;
What I need is to get 1 value from samples audioData[0] and audioData[1] in order to get 1 audio sample.
Can anyone explain me how to do this?
Thanks in advance.

I'm not a Java developer so this could be completely off-base, but have you considered using a ByteBuffer?

Assume the LSB is at data[0]
int val;
val = (((int)data[0]) & 0x00FF) | ((int)data[1]<<8);

As suggested before, Java has classes to help you with this. You can wrap your array with a ByteBuffer and then get an IntBuffer view of it.
ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.wrap(audioData);
// optional: bb.order(ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN) or bb.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN)
IntBuffer ib = bb.asIntBuffer();
int firstInt = ib.get(0);

ByteInputStream b = new ByteInputStream(audioData);
DataInputStream data = new DataInputStream(b);
short value = data.readShort();
The advantage of the above code is that you can keep reading the rest of 'data' in the same way.
A simpler solution for just two values might be:
short value = (short) ((audioData[0]<<8) | (audioData[1] & 0xff));
This simple solution extracts two bytes, and pieces them together with the first byte being the higher order bits and the second byte the lower order bits (this is known as Big-Endian; if your byte array contained Little-Endian data, you would shift the second byte over instead for 16-bit numbers; for Little-Endian 32-bit numbers, you would have to reverse the order of all 4 bytes, because Java's integers follow Big-Endian ordering).

easier way in Java to parse an array of bytes to bits is JBBP usage
class Parsed { #Bin(type = BinType.BIT_ARRAY) byte [] bits;}
final Parsed parsed = JBBPParser.prepare("bit:1 [_] bits;").parse(theByteArray).mapTo(Parsed.class);
the code will place parsed bits of each byte as 8 bytes in the bits array of the Parsed class instance

You can convert to a short (2 bytes) by logical or-ing the two bytes together:
short value = ((short) audioData[0]) | ((short) audioData[1] << 8);

I suggest you take a look at Preon. In Preon, you would be able to say something like this:
class Sample {
#BoundNumber(size="16") // Size of the sample in bits
int value;
}
class AudioFile {
#BoundList(size="...") // Number of samples
Sample[] samples;
}
byte[] buffer = ...;
Codec<AudioFile> codec = Codecs.create(AudioFile.class);
AudioFile audioFile = codec.decode(buffer);

You can do it like this, no libraries or external classes.
byte myByte = (byte) -128;
for(int i = 0 ; i < 8 ; i++) {
boolean val = (myByte & 256) > 0;
myByte = (byte) (myByte << 1);
System.out.print(val ? 1 : 0);
}
System.out.println();

byte myByte = 0x5B;
boolean bits = new boolean[8];
for(int i = 0 ; i < 8 ; i++)
bit[i] = (myByte%2 == 1);
The results is an array of zeros and ones where 1=TRUE and 0=FALSE :)

Related

int array to byte array with one integer per byte

All related questions I've found here on SO describe the conversion between a byte array and an int array where 4 bytes are converted to a single integer and vice versa.
What I am looking for instead is converting each integer to a single byte and vice versa, knowing that none of the values of the integer array exceeds the range of an unsigned byte.
Is there a library that does that (preferably Guava or Apache commons)? Essentially, I am looking for something like this:
int[] -> byte[]
for (int i = 0; i < intArray.length; i++){
byteArray[i] = (byte) intArray[i];
}
byte[] -> int[]
for (int i = 0; i < byteArray.length; i++){
intArray[i] = 0xff & byteArray[i];
}
You cannot cast arrays in Java in that way. AFAIK, the VM just does not let you reinterpret the bytes in an array as a different type. I assume that you could use some platform-dependent JNI magic to make it so, but that would be extremely hacky.
Edit (removed sample code; added following)
If you are going to reinterpret the same bytes as different primitive types, use a ByteBuffer.
Once declared, you get direct access operations to reinterpreted bytes, such as
myByteBuffer.getInt(1); // reads bytes 4, 5, 6, 7 as an int
myByteBuffer.getByte(5); // reads byte 5 as a byte
You can also extract primitive arrays from there, but there will be extra allocations involved.
Try:
int number = 54353, divisor = 256;
byte[] byteArray = new byte[4];
byteArray[3] = number%divisor;
number = number/divisor
byteArray[2] = number%divisor;
number = number/divisor
byteArray[1] = number%divisor;
number = number/divisor
byteArray[0] = number;

Reading serial information in Java

I'm working on porting an Android app that has already been developed in Python. In the Python program, there is a line that I'm trying to fully understand:
self.comfd = Serial(...) # from the pySerial API
....
self.buffer = list(struct.unpack('192H', self.comfd.read(384)))
From what I understand, self.comfd.read(384) is reading 384 bytes, and the unpack('192H' is unpacking 192 unsigned shorts from that data. Is this correct?
Now in Java, I've been able to read the buffer using
SerialPort device = SerialPort(file, baud, flags);
InputStream in = device.getInputStream();
My question is, now that I have the input stream, how do I create the unsigned shorts like the Python program is doing?
What I've tried (not producing correct values):
byte[] buffer = new byte[384];
in.read(buffer);
ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate(2);
for (int i = 0; i < buffer.length / 2; i++) {
bb.put(buffer[i]);
bb.put(buffer[i + 1]);
short val = bb.getShort(0);
System.out.println(val);
bb.clear();
}
What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help!
edit: I incorporated Jason C's answer and also I was looping incorrectly. By changing it to
for (int i = 0; i < buffer.length; i=i+2) that fixed my problem.
You could use a char (it's a 16-bit unsigned value in Java), e.g.:
byte[] buffer = ...;
ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.wrap(buffer); // don't need to put()
int val = (int)bb.getChar(0);
Use bb.order() to set big- vs. little-endian.
You can also just pack the 2 bytes into an int (assuming little-endian) without using a ByteBuffer. Byte is signed in Java, so you will have to convert the byte to an unsigned value before shifting, which you can do by temporarily storing it in a short (or an int or anything large enough to hold 0-255):
short b0 = (buffer[0] & 255); // trick converts to unsigned
short b1 = (buffer[1] & 255);
int val = b0 | (b1 << 8);
// or just put it all inline:
int val = (buffer[0]&255) | ((buffer[1]&255) << 8);
For big-endian data just swap b0 and b1.
Hope that helps.
Java has no unsigned numbers (char is 16bit unsigned but it's not a number and math with char will always result in implicit casts to int)
If you read 2 bytes of unsigned data into a short and want to see values in range from 0-65535 (instead of -32768 - 32767) you'll have to use a type that can have values in that range.
In case of 16bit short next bigger one is 32bit int. The conversion that does the trick is
short signed = ...;
int unsigned = signed & 0xFFFF;
Assuming signed has a value of 0xFFFF this is what happens:
short signed = -1; // FFFF on byte level
The expression signed & 0xFFFF contains a short and an int. 0xFFFF is a literal integer type number which when found in Java source is considered int. You could make it long by changing it to 0xFFFFL (you would need that if you want to convert unsigned int to long).
Since the & operator needs both sides in a common type Java will silently convert the smaller one.
int stillSigned = (int) signed; // hidden step
It will still have the exact same value of -1 since that's what it was before when looking at it unsigned but it is changed on bytelevel to 0xFFFFFFFF.
Now the bit-manipulation is applied to remove all the added FFs
int unsigned = stillSigned & 0xFFFF;
and you end up with 0x0000FFFF on byte level and can finally see the value of 65535.
Since you happen to have 16bit values you can use char and simply cast it to int.
char value = ...;
int unsigned = value;
But above approach works for any unsigned conversion: byteValue & 0xFF, shortValue & 0xFFFF, intValue & 0xFFFFFFFFL
The next thing you should do is not to use a simple InputStream to do
SerialPort device = SerialPort(file, baud, flags);
InputStream in = device.getInputStream();
byte[] buffer = new byte[384];
in.read(buffer);
Reason is that InputStream#read(byte[]) is not guaranteed to read all the bytes you want in your buffer. It returns you the number of bytes it has read or -1 if the stream is done. Manually writing code that ensures you have a filled buffer is nasty but there is a simple solution: DataInputStream
SerialPort device = SerialPort(file, baud, flags);
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(device.getInputStream());
byte[] buffer = new byte[384];
in.readFully(buffer);
DataInputStream has very nice functionality that you could use:
SerialPort device = SerialPort(file, baud, flags);
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(device.getInputStream());
int unsignedShort = in.readUnsignedShort();
Another way to get different numbers out of byte[] data is to use ByteBuffer since that provides methods like .getShort()
SerialPort device = SerialPort(file, baud, flags);
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(device.getInputStream());
byte[] buffer = new byte[384];
in.readFully(buffer);
ByteBuffer byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(buffer);
while (byteBuffer.hasRemaining()) {
int unsigned = byteBuffer.getChar();
System.out.println(unsigned);
}

Adjusting audio volume in real time from byte[]?

I am trying to write a simple application which plays sound and can alter the volume of that sound at any time during playing. I am doing this by converting each pair of bytes in the byte array of the sound into an int, then multiplying that int by increase or decrease in volume and then writing them back as two bytes (i.e. 1 sample). However, this results in extreme distortion in the sound. Is it possible that I have got the bit shifting wrong? My sound format is:
.wav 44100.0hz, 16bit, little-endian
At the moment the byte array that I pass the adjustVolume method represents a 10th of a second of audio data. i.e. sampleRate/10
Is there something I am missing here that is causing it to distort and not scale volume properly? Have I got the writing of bytes back and fort wrong?
private byte[] adjustVolume(byte[] audioSamples, double volume) {
byte[] array = new byte[audioSamples.length];
for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i += 2) {
// convert byte pair to int
int audioSample = (int) (((audioSamples[i + 1] & 0xff) << 8) | (audioSamples[i] & 0xff));
audioSample = (int) (audioSample * volume);
// convert back
array[i] = (byte) audioSample;
array[i + 1] = (byte) (audioSample >> 16);
}
return array;
}
This code is based off of: Audio: Change Volume of samples in byte array in which the asker is trying to do the same thing. However, having used the code from his question (which I think was not updated after he got his answer) I can't get it to work and I am not exactly sure what it is doing.
I suggest you wrap your byte array in a ByteBuffer (not forgetting to set its .order() to little endian), read a short, manipulate it, write it again.
Sample code:
// Necessary in order to convert negative shorts!
private static final int USHORT_MASK = (1 << 16) - 1;
final ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.wrap(audioSamples)
.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
final ByteBuffer newBuf = ByteBuffer.allocate(audioSamples.length)
.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
int sample;
while (buf.hasRemaining()) {
sample = (int) buf.getShort() & USHORT_MASK;
sample *= volume;
newBuf.putShort((short) (sample & USHORT_MASK));
}
return newBuf.array();

How to convert short array to byte array? [duplicate]

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I am working with audio, I saved audio data on short array. I want to convert it to a byte array to store the wav file. I don't know convert short[] to byte[]. Can you help me.
Thank you very much.
short is 16 bit type and byte is 8 bit type . So from a n length short array you will get a 2n length byte array.
The Basics
before converting an array thing about converting a single short to byte. so as per above line you will create 2 byte from a single short.
The principle will be store first 8 bits two a byte and store second 8 bits to another short. The code will be like this
byte b1, b2;
short s;
b1 = s & 0xff;
b2 = (s >> 8) & 0xff;
Now Array
use the above principal for array now. say the array size of short is n. let the short is s
byte result[2*n];
for(int i = 0; i<2*n ; i=i+2){
b[i] = s[i>>1] & 0xff;
b[i+1] = (s[i>>1 | 1] >> 8) & 0xff;
}
Using ByteBuffer class
you can also convert short array to bytearray using ByteBuffer class.
ByteBuffer byteBuf = ByteBuffer.allocate(2*n);
for(int i = 0; i<n ; i++) {
byteBuf.putShort(buffer[i]);
}
The only way is to create a byte array of the same size as the short array and copy the short array elements

Representing a number in a byte array (java programming)

I'm trying to represent the port number 9876 (or 0x2694 in hex) in a two byte array:
class foo {
public static void main (String args[]) {
byte[] sendData = new byte[1];
sendData[0] = 0x26;
sendData[1] = 0x94;
}
}
But I get a warning about possible loss of precision:
foo.java:5: possible loss of precision
found : int
required: byte
sendData[1] = 0x94;
^
1 error
How can I represent the number 9876 in a two byte array without losing precision?
NOTE: I selected the code by #Björn as the correct answer, but the code by #glowcoder also works well. It's just a different approach to the same problem. Thank you all!
Have you tried casting to a byte ? e.g.
sendData[1] = (byte)0x94;
0x94 is 148 in decimal, which exceeds the range of byte in java (-128 to 127).
You can do one of the following:
1) A cast will work fine because it will preserve the binary representation (no meaningful bits are truncated for 0x00 to 0xFF):
sendData[1] = (byte)0x94;
2) The binary representation of 0x94 as a signed byte is -108 (-0x6C), so the following will have the same effect:
sendData[1] = -0x6C; //or -108 in decimal
Björn gave a good generic answer with using streams. You can also do this same thing using java.nio.ByteBuffer which results in slightly less code and you could also control endianess (byte order) of the output.
To create the byte array:
public static byte[] toByteArray(int bits) {
ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(4);
buf.putInt(bits);
return buf.array();
}
To reverse it:
public static int fromByteArray(byte[] b) {
ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.wrap(b);
return buf.getInt();
}
My first answer would be bitshifting, but on a second thought I think using outputstreams could be better and more simple to understand. I usually avoid casting, but if you're not going for a generic solution I guess that would be okay. :)
Using streams, a generic solution:
public byte[] intToByteArray(final int i) throws java.io.IOException {
java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream b = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
java.io.DataOutputStream d = new java.io.DataOutputStream(b);
d.writeInt(i);
d.flush();
return b.toByteArray();
}
And to reverse it:
public int byteArrayToInt(final byte[] b) throws IOException {
java.io.ByteArrayInputStream ba = new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(b);
java.io.DataInputStream d = new java.io.DataInputStream(ba);
return d.readInt();
}
You have to cast to (byte) as default number type in java is int, which is bigger than byte. As long as the value fits in byte it is ok to cast.
Try this:
sendData[0] =(byte)0x26
sendData[1] =(byte)0x94
Or this:
sendData[0] =(byte)38
sendData[1] =(byte)148
You must cast data into byte in order to assign it to a byte!
That does not mean you lost precision, just writing 0x26 means an int to Java compiler..
But also note: range of a byte is from -128 to 127, so in case of 0x94=148 it will be represented after byte casting as '-108' , so it will not work correctly in mathematical computations..
It's because everything in Java is signed. 0x94 (148) is greater than Byte.MAX_VALUE(2^7-1).
What you need is
public static byte[] intToByteArray(int value) {
byte[] b = new byte[4];
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
int offset = (b.length - 1 - i) * 8;
b[i] = (byte) ((value >>> offset) & 0xFF);
}
return b;
}

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