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EByte Adds Repeating Blocks to Read Every WAV Chunk and Every ZIP Entry

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

EByte 0.2.0 adds the first feature from its approved plan after 0.1.1: repeating blocks. A schema can now say “read these fields again and again until the file ends”, or “until the next bytes stop matching this signature”, with no count stored anywhere. That covers a lot of real formats. The new riff-wave schema reads every chunk of a WAV file in whatever order it comes, and the new zip schema reads archives with any number of files. Both are in the schema library with real sample files that round-trip byte for byte on every change.

EByte Joins the Studio With One Schema for Reading, Writing and Debugging Binary Files

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

EByte, the studio’s twenty-fifth project, is a Go library and one command-line tool for binary file formats. You describe a format once in a JSON schema, and the same description reads a file into editable JSON, writes it back and traces it field by field. The rule it’s built around is easy to check: decode a file, encode it unchanged, and every byte comes back, padding and reserved fields included. When a file doesn’t match, the tool prints one line of JSON with the field, the byte offset and what it expected, and never the file’s contents.