[PD] Bad writesf~ files?

[derek holzer]

thewade wrote:
> Why is it that writesf~ always makes bad wav files? I always have to open them up in some editing program, like soundforge, and \"save as\" to repair. Lame quits encoding to mp3 with a segmentation fault! Sweep cant even give me an error.

Are you sending the object any additional messages besides filename? If 
so, what? Try sending:

"open -wave -bytes 2 -rate 44100 /tmp/foo.wav"

[or something like that, maybe I have the bytes wrong...] to write a 
proper header, instead of a simple:

"open /tmp/foo.wav"

which may not write a header at all.

good luck,
d.

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