How to remove wavfile header in matlab

Question

I need to delete the first 1024 bytes of the wave file. I tried to do it, but I got a damaged / distorted wavfile:

wavFile = fopen(fullFileName, 'r'); % Open file for reading fseek (wavFile, 1024, -1);% Skip past header, which is 1024 bytes long. wF = fread (wavFile, inf, 'int16');% 16-bit signed integers wF = wF(:)'; newWavFile = fopen(strcat('new_',fileNames(fileNo).name), 'w+');% Open file for reading fwrite(newWavFile,wF); fclose(wavFile); 

What could be the problem?

Answer 1

I managed to remove the header and fix the distortion:

  wavFile = fopen(fullFileName, 'r');% Open file for reading fseek (wavFile, 1024, -1);% Skip past header, which is 1024 bytes long. wF = fread (wavFile, inf, 'int16');% 16-bit signed integers wF = wF(:)'; wF = 0.8*wF/max(abs(wF)); newWavFile =strcat('1_',fileNames(fileNo).name);% Open file for reading wavwrite(wF,16000,16,newWavFile);