a new flag for [soundfiler] will make this easier without the need of a
dummy buffer

see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/193

2018-05-12 14:06 GMT-03:00 oliver <[email protected]>:

> Joe White wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recently spent a bit of time tracking down why a patch wasn't loading a
>> couple of externals in a windows application that embeds libpd.
>>
>> The patch was using /vbap/ [0] and /soundfile_info/ from iemlib [1].
>>
>
> hi,
>
> just the other night i was hacking together a [sound_file] info
> alternative with purely vanilla objects WITHOUT loading an entire file into
> RAM.
>
> the method is basically to use [soundfiler] to load 1 sample of a file
> into a table with a -skip message, and recalculate the skip position until
> [soundfiler]'s left outlet outputs 1 (instead of 0).
>
> all of [soundfile_info]'s other values are also output from [soundfiler]'s
> right outlet as of PD version 0.48.
>
> it takes a tad longer than [soundfile_info] to output the soundfile's
> length, but it's acceptable imho. plus you can use .aiff too !
>
> best
>
> oliver
>
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