On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Having a sound file player that plays any format makes Pd more flexible, leading to more new and unexpected uses. This is the strength of Pd: as few presumptions as possible. If you wanted to build a mp3 jukebox using Pd, for example, you'd need to play mp3s within Pd.
Not necessarilly. You could control an mp3 player from pd.
right ... it's easy to use jack to connect an mp3 player to pd, especially on windoze :-)
Anyhow, just wanted to say that the format question is not the most important one regarding readsf~.
concerning usability, two steps that can be done in one step, is one step too much...
i think using pd should be mainly about using a software rather than finding workarounds for things pd can't do ... finding workarounds might be fun for a programmer, but for the artistic use of pd??? when making music, i'd like to have a software that works out of the box!
tim