My engineering diploma involved some digital signal processing (DSP), in particular sound generation and recognition. Throughout my studies I went through a ton of audio files, usually using C++ to process them. I've written a custom .wav file loader, of course missed a few edge cases and it crashed upon receiving new training data from my supervisor...

A few months later I discovered that Python suports WAV in the standard library. Since then I try not to reinvent the wheel when it comes to processing .wav files. Luckily there's a great library for doing that in Rust - hound.