Thanks for the update, Dan!

Ingo

From: Dan Wilcox [mailto:danomatika@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2020 3:14 PM
To: Ingo; Alexandre Torres Porres
Cc: Pd-List
Subject: Re: [PD] Sample loop - start and end point (WAV files)

Howdy all,

I did give up for a while. The discussion is here:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/897

I still have the relevant code but there was simply too much to do back then and I had to pull back and put it on the back burner. It's still something I think should be working in Pd, but maybe restricted to *read* only as a start instead of me trying to implement full write access.

My first focus is to get the sound file updates into a Pd release as we need CAF and AIFC support for a major project at work: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/855

Once that is in, say Pd 0.52, then I can refactor the previous meta read code, otherwise there is no-one stopping someone from writing an external using something like libsndfile to poop out metadata....

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Dan Wilcox was working in the ability of [soundfiler] to read the loop point within Pd.

In Pd 0.51.1 there was still no change concerning sample loop points - unless it's not documented in the help file.



Reading and writing loop points outside of Pd is no problem. I've been doing this for more that 30 years.



However, I need to be able to automatically read loop points within Pd when unknown samples are being loaded.

So far I had to get the loop points in other softwares and write lists for Pd to be able to handle them.

This is rather tedious and also prone for errors. One little typo and you get clicks!



Especially this won't work for simply loading new sample into an existing Pd patch by other users.



I hope Dan didn't give up on ths . . .



Ingo

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