Hi,

I have been playing around with writesf~, trying to save '.au' files (nextstep), and I'm getting weird results. I'm hoping someone else can verify this.

I have a Windows machine running PD 0.37.0. When I use writesf~ to save a file in 'au' format (using the -nextstep flag) the resulting file is malformed (I can't open it with any sound program). After a little inspection to the generated file it seems to me that the file is always big-indian encoded (it also seems that the -little/-big flags have no effect, the file is always the same). Also it seems that field 2 of the file header (data size) is filled with zeroes when, according to http://brandt.kurowski.net/projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=588, it should be filled with ones.

I made a test patch (see attach) to reproduce these results .

I experimented re-arranging the file manually and it can be played afterwards...

Hope someone can shed some light on this.

Thanks, jc

PS: I have just joined this list and I don't know if this was the right place to post possible bugs in PD or if the cvs list would be more appropriate...

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