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I have some older DAFF files from head-related impulse response measurements of the Fabian dummy head. I believe they are OpenDAFF version 1.5.

If I try to load it with the Matlab call

hrir_id = va.create_directivity_from_file( 'Fabian_2011.daff' )

I get the answer

[VACore] Could not load directivity, DAFF version not supported.

How can I solve this problem?

Acousticool
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You can not use older DAFF files in Virtual Acoustics, because VA has been built against the current OpenDAFF version 1.7. However, you can convert a DAFF v15 to a DAFF v17 conveniently using the ITA-Toolbox, if you have Matlab at your disposal. The Matlab call would be

daffv17_convert_from_daffv15( hrirv15_input_file_path, hrirv17_output_file_path, [] )

You can also add further metadata, just add as last argument a metadata struct that can be created by

md = daffv17_add_metadata( [], "Measurement year", "int", 2011 )
md = daffv17_add_metadata( md, "Measurement microphone", "string", "Fabian dummy head" )

so final call would be 

daffv17_convert_from_daffv15( hrirv15_input_file_path, hrirv17_output_file_path, md )

The converted DAFF HRIR is then compatible and can be loaded by VA.

JST
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  • Time to switch to SOFA ? https://www.sofaconventions.org/mediawiki/index.php/SimpleFreeFieldHRIR – audionuma Oct 11 '17 at 10:21
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    You can also use SOFA files to convert them into the OpenDAFF format. Just load an itaHRTF from SOFA file and export it as DAFF v17 using writeDAFFFile. – JST Oct 11 '17 at 18:54