Email crossing, I literally apologised for my dumbness and noticed that single difference - we’re on the same page here :)
On 28 Jan 2022, at 19:29, oliver oliver@klingt.org wrote:
Miller Puckette via Pd-list wrote:
Hi PA - Are you doing stuff that "soundfiler" doesn't? If so, it would be better to add to the soundfiler object than to add a new object with its own name.
The one thing that [soundfiler] can not do, is to report the length of a soundfile WITHOUT fully loading it into an array.
That would be a great feature to have for [soundfiler]'s right outlet, especially in the case of big files.
You can get all the other information (channels, samplerate etc.) by loading just a small sniplet of the source file (even 1 sample is sufficient IIRC) into a buffer, but not the length. you would need to add "-resize" to the load flags, which is not useful for (very) long files
i still use IEMLIB's [soundfile_info] for that purpose.
best
oliver
Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list