I think one of the reason one might have to be able to play mp3´s or ogg´s from inside a pd-patch can be that you´re working with some interactivity, thematic project for instance where one is sniffing the web for sounds. 

I regard mp3´s as usual as for instance jpg´s are on the web, speaking of some image analogy of compressed formats. I don´t like the licencing of mp3 though and would prefer ogg to be the main standard.

Sometimes there aren´t time enough to do conversions on the fly to uncompressed formats before importing files onto pd.  

I can with other words imaging a number of situations which could call for a a playability of mp3 and oggs. 

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. 

/Björn Eriksson

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/11/12 19:04, Ňscar Martínez Carmona wrote:
[readsf~] seems to be what I was looking for!
I'm not sure about mp3 layers and names , but when that layer II file is what I get with an mp3 bounce with Logic...

Why should you export to mp* from logic? That sounds rather insane unless you *need* mp*

mp* are lossy compressed, and unless you have a precise 'aesthetic' reason to having mpeg-degraded audio quality simply export to a lossless format.

That said there are probably thousands of converters out there from-to mp* to anything, google is your friend there.

Lorenzo.
Thank you both!



On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM, chris clepper <cgclepper@gmail.com <mailto:cgclepper@gmail.com>> wrote:

    A MPEG-1 LAyer II file is MP2 not MP3.  You will need to find a
    player/converter for that.  Maybe VLC?

    There are multiple ways to play .wav files with Pd - check the
    example patches included with it.

    On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Ňscar Martínez Carmona
    <xamps23@gmail.com <mailto:xamps23@gmail.com>> wrote:

        Hi List!
        I'm trying to play an mp3 layerII file with [mp3play~] ans it
        does only support layer III files. While I'm looking for the
        appropiate converter (fail at that by now) I was wondering if
        there was another external able to play layer II files (the
        most common type, not?).
        Anyways I'll be happy too if I can play an not compressed
        audio file like an  .aiff or .wav but in stereo? how the f*ck
        I do that?
        Thanx!

        --         Ňscar Martínez Carmona


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