Totally agree. There’s a list of basic info in the WAV/AIFF headers that is already parsed when reading that could simply be dumped out via a list/message.

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On Nov 5, 2015, at 4:00 AM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
Date: November 4, 2015 at 5:29:15 AM MST
Subject: Re: [PD-dev] sound filer samplerate outlet?


On 2015-11-04 07:17, Dan Wilcox wrote:
to simply output the samplerate out of a right outlet to compliment the sample length from the left outlet? 

in which case i would suggest having the 2nd outlet output a *message*
that also contains the property-name.
e.g.
[samplerate 44100, frames 1000(

and probably extend that to all the info that is readily available anyhow:
[filename /full/path/to/foo.wav, channels 2, ...(

fgnasdr
IOhannes