[PD] a strange playback problem using tabread~ an tabread4~

[Thomas Grill]

Fwiw, you could look if xgroove~ can do what you want to achieve. It  
uses double precision position calculation internally. The output  
position information is single-precision nevertheless.

greetings, Thomas

Am 12.09.2007 um 21:51 schrieb David Schaffer:

> Hi,
>
>     Today, I realized that simple playback of an audio file just  
> isn't that easy in pd: since I was unable to find an mp3 player  
> that actually works on a win 2k/xp system, I chose to leave the  
> files in .wav and read them using tabread~ or tabread4~ driven by  
> phasor (I need more control than the readsf~ object can provide).  
> Here's the weird thing: as this method works fine with files up to  
> ~10 minutes, longer files seem to decrease in quality as time goes  
> by, and around 18 minutes,it sounds really bad (a little like  
> beeing processed by a "bitcrusher" ...for those who like cubase,  
> something very "lo-fi"). I find this to be very intriguing and was  
> wondering if anyone out there had an explanation for this, I was  
> also wondering what other solutions I had to be able to play long  
> wav files without quality loss. Thank you all.
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