Multi-channel will be very useful, especially in the context of some of the sound spatialization work we have used libpd for at ZKM. A good idea from Ableton/Max which we can profit from as well. :)

The CoreAudio API also uses "frames" in it's AudioStreamBasicDescription struct: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreaudiotypes/audiostreambasicdescription

I don't mention CoreAudio to say we should slavishly copy it, but I find the API pretty well designed in abstraction and naming. I think "s_frames" would be equivalent to "mBytesPerFrame".

On Sep 2, 2022, at 9:36 AM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

apart from that:
probably "s_length" might be called "s_frames" as this seems to be the
less ambiguous term.

and i would personally prefer "s_samplerate" and "s_channels".
that would make for an easy distinction: the abbreviated names "s_n" and
"s_sr" are the convoluted ones, whereas the long names have the data
you'd expect.

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