I think there is iemlib/soundfile_info. .hc
On Nov 3, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Samuel Burt wrote: > How do I get the length of an aif file without using soundfiler? > > I've got an application that loads random aif and wav files from a chosen > directory when triggered. I was using soundfiler to load a sound into an > array where I could play it back with variable speed. When I ran two of these > applications simultaneously, I noticed audio dropouts every time soundfiler > would load a new sound. Soundfiler is not threaded, so I went looking for > other people's solutions. Someone mentioned that Miller had suggested using > readsf~ in an upsampled subpatch to read a sound into an array quickly. When > you do this, how do you know how long to make your array to load in the > sound? I suppose I could just make a preset length. I did see posts about > wavinfo (buggy) and soundfile_info (only for wav files). > > Is there a way to get the sample length of aifs in Pd without soundfiler? > > This is an application I develop for someone else. It would not be > appropriate for me to ask him to go through his entire collection of samples > and change all the aifs to wavs. If I make the array an arbitrary length, he > may be surprised when he starts trying to load in 2 minute files. > > OS 10.6.8 > Pd 0.42.5-extended-rc5 > > Thanks, > Samuel Burt > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer science is no more related to the computer than astronomy is related to the telescope. -Edsger Dykstra _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
