[PD] strange wave

[chris clepper]

The length of that file is zero according to the header as read by
SoundHack.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Hans Roels <hans.roels at versateladsl.be>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sometimes when I record audio in Pd, a wave file is created that Pd can't
> open or play. If I try to open this wave file in an other audio program like
> Audacity, this is also impossible. VLC player does play the file though and
> when I open this file in Samplitude a message "file does not contain sample
> data" appears but I can open the file. If I resave it in Samplitude it can
> be opened in Pd. I guess something is wrong in the headers of the wave file
> that Pd creates.
> In attach is a short example of such a 'strange' wave file.  I hope that
> somebody can see what is wrong in this file...
> There is still something very 'shaky' in the 'writesf~ ' object in Pd, I
> guess about 25% of the times I try to record something, I have this kind of
> problem. An other problem that sometimes occurs is that only a file with a
> name is created but without actual sampledata (and this isn't caused because
> I don't leave any time between the 'open' and 'start' command for
> 'writesf'). I haven't succeeded in isolating the exact problem yet but I'm
> trying... (I think it has something to do with using 'writesf' in an
> abstraction).
>
> I 'm working on Windows XP and this problem occured in Pd 0.40.3 and in
> 0.42-4.
>
> Hans R
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