[PD] packOSC "BLOB"

[Martin Peach]

Wolfgang Jäger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For sending audio efficiently over OSC I would need an OSC-"BLOB".
> Unfortunately the packOSC object supports no OSC-"BLOB"s.
> Is there any possibility to send BLOBs?
> ciao
> 

I can probably add a Blob type to [packOSC] and [unpackOSC]. The thing 
is that the blob type is supposed to consist of arbitrary bytes 
(8-bits), but Pd audio works with 32-bit floats. There is nothing 
[unpackOSC] can do with a received blob except output the list of bytes, 
so some other object would be needed to pack groups of 4 bytes into 
floats again.
It may end up being just as efficient to send a bunch of floats for each 
signal vector.

Martin