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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "wavtotext.py", line 24, in <module>
    w = wave.open(fileName, 'r')
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/wave.py", line 511, in open
    return Wave_read(f)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/wave.py", line 164, in __init__
    self.initfp(f)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/wave.py", line 144, in initfp
    self._read_fmt_chunk(chunk)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/wave.py", line 274, in _read_fmt_chunk
    raise Error, 'unknown format: %r' % (wFormatTag,)
wave.Error: unknown format: 3

import wave
import math
import struct

bitDepth = 8#target bitDepth
frate = 44100#target frame rate

fileName = "musicfile.wav"#file to be imported (change this)

#read file and get data
w = wave.open(fileName, 'r')
numframes = w.getnframes()

frame = w.readframes(numframes)#w.getnframes()

frameInt = map(ord, list(frame))#turn into array

#separate left and right channels and merge bytes
frameOneChannel = [0]*numframes#initialize list of one channel of wave
for i in range(numframes):
    frameOneChannel[i] = frameInt[4*i+1]*2**8+frameInt[4*i]#separate channels and store one channel in new list
    if frameOneChannel[i] > 2**15:
        frameOneChannel[i] = (frameOneChannel[i]-2**16)
    elif frameOneChannel[i] == 2**15:
        frameOneChannel[i] = 0
    else:
        frameOneChannel[i] = frameOneChannel[i]

#convert to string
audioStr = ''
for i in range(numframes):
    audioStr += str(frameOneChannel[i])
    audioStr += ","#separate elements with comma

fileName = fileName[:-3]#remove .wav extension
text_file = open(fileName+"txt", "w")
text_file.write("%s"%audioStr)
text_file.close()