Ok,

It's been a while since I have hacked at pd, but recently I have been
giving attention to programming projects in c++ and have used pd as
my test bed for the audio part.  The outcome is an entirely new
readanysf~ based on gavl/gmerlin audio&video library.   

The new features  include:

	ø:  reads all audio formats that are compiled into gmerlin_avdecoder
 	    which include ogg, mp3, flac, wma and others.  Mainly all of
		 those supported by ffmpeg plus a few others.

	ø:  multiple channels of audio (I think the limit in pd is 64).

	ø:  not based on Flext.  (Sorry, Thomas, this is not really a
		 feature.  Flext is awesome. )  There were some unknown bugs
		 that made pd crash if you deleted a readanysf~ from screen
		 using newer versions of flext that override the new operator.
		 This also means one less dependency, although I have added
		 others.

Please download and give it a whirl:

	http://aug.ment.org/software/readanysf~0.20.tar.gz			

You will need  gavl and gmerlin_avdecoder installed from CVS on your
machine.  These, in turn may ask you, but not require, other libs
such as ffmpeg and ogg/vorbis.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@gmerlin.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmerlin login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@gmerlin.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmerlin co -P gavl
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@gmerlin.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmerlin co -P gmerlin
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@gmerlin.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gmerlin co -P gmerlin_avdecoder

It should compile and run on a mac as well, but it is untested.
I'd love to hear any comments or suggestons.

-august.