[PD] writesf produces incorrect header (pd-0.41.0)

[Miller Puckette]

Hi Ilya,

As far as I can tell, Pd write little-endian .snd files OK but
nobody else but Pd seems to support them any more.  ".wav" files are
little-endian and widely supported; perhaps that's a better option.

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:05:26AM +0000, errordeveloper at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> i have recently decided that recordings i make have to be little endian,
> as the architecture has that byte order.
> 
> so i have used [writesf~] sending it a message:
> open -bytes 4 -nextstep -little -rate 96000 /tmp/recording-XX
> 
> after the recording is done, i have a file /tmp/recording-XX.snd, which
> is not recognised by the file(1) command ..it just says that's a data
> file ;(
> i can open the sf in Snd editor, and set header to what i know it is
> supposed to be - everything works.
> 
> it seems like [writesf~] has a glitch with that ..it doesn't write
> header totaly incorrectly or may be somewhat doesn't write it at all..
> 
> it's in the latest version of pd, compiled localy on x86_64, gcc-4.1.2,
> gentoo linux.
> 
> -- 
> cheers,
> ilya .d 
> 
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