thing is I can never hear dropouts, don't think I've ever had problems, then it seemed that the issue might be first accessing an uncached file, which kinda made sense why I never faced this.... I also have an abstraction that is a wrap around readsf~ that doesn't care about this and I use it many times to randomly play samples from sample banks, never found anything funny (ok, my performances are usually loud and noisy anyway, haha)
And for testing now, I just recorded a new file (ok it was in Pd), then renamed it and moved it elsewhere, no dropouts either, did my system cash this somehow and kept track of it?
Anyway, I really like how Dan put it... which is you "may" get dropouts... "if you do" then you should do this... because putting this as something thas *has* to be done everytime doesn't seem right... :)
Em qua., 6 de mar. de 2024 às 23:33, Christof Ressi info@christofressi.com escreveu:
On 07.03.2024 02:38, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
on first accessing a file
I think this would cause more confusion than it would help. (What does "first accessing" actually mean?)
I wrote about the case where the file is not yet cached by the OS, but IMO that is too specific for a help patch. Also, it isn't the *only* case that can cause a dropout. In general, file I/O is non-deterministic and you are at the mercy of your OS.
I think it's enough to tell users that the buffer needs to be filled in time.
Christof