[PD] big soundfiles

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Derek Holzer wrote:

> So what could the max size of a file be without losing any detail with 
> [tabread4~]?

There is no such thing... It's completely relative to the amount of detail 
you want to have. If you want a million points between sample 1 and sample 
2 you can have them, but if you go between 100 and 101 you already can't 
have that anymore. If you want to be able to use sixteenths of samples, 
you can up to sample 1048576, but after that it's only eights, until the 
double of that size, etc.

[tabread4~] is made to read between the samples, but there's no standard 
on how many points between the samples one might want... it depends on 
what you decide to do with the data, and the maximum error you can 
tolerate in that situation.

> Is that the hardcoded 4000000 elements limitation?

I think that it's just so that you don't load something too big, for the 
typical amounts of RAM that people had back when [soundfiler] was written.

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