Frank Barknecht :
There is an mp3play~ object in the IEMLib, also on CVS.
Yes, I know about that one - no "speed" control, though. But a moment ago it striked me, that using variable speed mp3 playing external will propably cause me a bigger problem. I was planning to use that kind of object to play various sound loops - my patch works more less like ableton Live, where I trigger those sounds by midi events. The patch has bpm control which controls the speed at which all the files are being played (that is why I asked about mp3 playing external). But now I remembered that mp3 encoders do some zero stuffing (silence) at the end of files, so I would get clicks when "looping" sounds. Dunno how it looks with ogg files.
Both objects are not really fit for doing DJish synchronization let alone beatmatching. For this, only readanysf~ comes close, however not close enough for my taste.
If I may ask: what do you mean "not close enough"? What you don't like about readanysf~?
cheers, Bart