De: "Björn Eriksson" miulew@gmail.com
Soundwise we all know wave and aiff sounds better, but I am a bit surprised this seems to be a so complicated and sensitive issue about having pd play a compressed sound file with some ease. Maybe this has been discussed over the years over and over,so forgive me if this already stated somewhere about these things.
There are plenty of compressed formats so it implies a lot of different libraries, and fortunately almost all is handled by gmerlin and then [readanysf~] external, at the same time this external couldn't seek lossless formats like wav or flac...
I remember once a discussion about this topic where I proposed a solution using command lines for the converting process, this is rather fast following the computer it's working on.