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+## Copyright (C) 2015 Mike Miller
+## Copyright (C) 2005-2015 Michael Zeising
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{y} =} wavread (@var{filename})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{y}, @var{fs}, @var{nbits}] =} wavread (@var{filename})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@dots{}] =} wavread (@var{filename}, @var{n})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@dots{}] =} wavread (@var{filename}, [@var{n1} @var{n2}])
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@dots{}] =} wavread (@dots{}, @var{datatype})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{sz} =} wavread (@var{filename}, "size")
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{n_samp}, @var{n_chan}] =} wavread (@var{filename}, "size")
+##
+## @code{wavread} is deprecated and will be removed in Octave version 4.6.
+## Use @code{audioread} for the equivalent functionality.
+##
+## Read the audio signal @var{y} from the RIFF/WAVE sound file @var{filename}.
+##
+## If the file contains multichannel data, then @var{y} is a matrix with the
+## channels represented as columns.
+##
+## If @var{n} is specified, only the first @var{n} samples of the file are
+## returned.  If [@var{n1} @var{n2}] is specified, only the range of samples
+## from @var{n1} to @var{n2} is returned.  A value of @code{Inf} can be used
+## to represent the total number of samples in the file.
+##
+## If the option @qcode{"size"} is given, then the size of the audio signal
+## is returned instead of the data.  The size is returned in a row vector of
+## the form [@var{samples} @var{channels}].  If there are two output arguments,
+## the number of samples is assigned to the first and the number of channels
+## is assigned to the second.
+##
+## The optional return value @var{fs} is the sample rate of the audio file in
+## Hz.  The optional return value @var{nbits} is the number of bits per sample
+## as encoded in the file.
+##
+## @seealso{audioread, audiowrite, wavwrite}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Deprecated in 4.2
+
+function [y, fs, nbits] = wavread (filename, varargin)
+
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "wavread is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use audioread instead");
+  endif
+
+  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 3)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  if (! ischar (filename))
+    error ("wavread: FILENAME must be a character string");
+  endif
+
+  datatype = "double";
+  samples = [1, Inf];
+  do_file_size = false;
+
+  if (nargin == 3)
+    samples = varargin{1};
+    datatype = varargin{2};
+  elseif (nargin == 2)
+    if (strcmp (varargin{1}, "size"))
+      do_file_size = true;
+    elseif (ischar (varargin{1}))
+      datatype = varargin{1};
+    else
+      samples = varargin{1};
+    endif
+  endif
+
+  if (isscalar (samples))
+    samples = [1, samples];
+  endif
+
+  if (! (isrow (samples) && numel (samples) == 2 && all (samples > 0)
+         && all (fix (samples) == samples)))
+    error ("wavread: SAMPLES must be a 1- or 2-element integer row vector");
+  endif
+
+  if (! (ischar (datatype) && any (strcmp (datatype, {"double", "native"}))))
+    error ('wavread: DATATYPE must be either "double" or "native"');
+  endif
+
+  info = audioinfo (filename);
+
+  if (do_file_size)
+    if (nargout > 1)
+      [y, fs] = deal (info.TotalSamples, info.NumChannels);
+    else
+      y = [info.TotalSamples, info.NumChannels];
+    endif
+  else
+    [y, fs] = audioread (filename, samples, datatype);
+    nbits = info.BitsPerSample;
+  endif
+
+endfunction
+
+
+## Functional tests for wavread/wavwrite pair are in wavwrite.m.
+
+## Test input validation
+%!error wavread ()
+%!error wavread (1)
+%!error wavread ("foo.wav", 2, 3, 4)
+%!error wavread ("foo.wav", "foo")
+%!error wavread ("foo.wav", -1)
+%!error wavread ("foo.wav", [1, Inf], "foo");
+