If its any consolation, it also sucks in Jitter. spigot~ got seriously broken with QT 7, and whatnot. Their solution is to automatically extract an AIFF, make an XML file, and load it into a buffer~ which can then be sent to MSP tilde land.
Ive not played with it, but it isnt elegant, ill tell you that. Anyway, theres lots of room for improvement.
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