It gives the No. of channels here on win32:
see image (one file is 2 channels and the other 4):
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2017-08-15 15:58 GMT-03:00 Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27@hotmail.com>:
The new [soundfiler] on 0.48.0.
Well, It doesn't really do that, it just gives you the sample rate now, but I've suggested it could also give you number of channels and other information, see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/179