Hello,
I'm curious about the differences between "Soundfiler" and "readsf~".
I've been relatively unsuccessful with both of these so far, yet it seems that what I'm trying to do is quite simple.
I'd like to play back many mono wav files simoultaneously. Each file might be as long as 5 minutes or shorter than a few seconds. I've created and edited most of the wav files in Cool Edit Pro and saved them as 16-bit PCM wav files. When I try to play them using readsf~ I get a "Bad header" error in PD's terminal window. And using soundfiler, I can read small-ish files into an array but the -resize flag fails when I try to read longer files (approx 3 - 5 minutes).
I'm assuming first that I might responsible for the errors; so I suppose my real question is: WHICH object is more capable, flexible, stable, and all-round BEST for playing wav files?
Many thanks Dave Sabine
I've created and edited most of the wav files in Cool Edit Pro and saved
them as 16-bit PCM wav files. When I try to >play them using readsf~ I get a "Bad header" error in PD's terminal window.
Remember to uncheck the "Save extra non-audio information" checkbox when you save files in CoolEdit. This may solve your problem. Changing the filetype to Apple .aif format will probably also solve the problem.
And using soundfiler, I can read small-ish files into an array but
the -resize flag fails when I try to read longer files (approx >3 - 5 minutes).
The soundfiler have a size limitation of about 16MB, since samples are loaded into memory (to prevent overflowing the memory?). To break this you'll need to edit d_soundfile.c in the sources line 798 and recompile. (This worked for me once).
HTH Soeren
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