[PD] How to access audio files from disk randomly?

James Dunn james at 4thharmonic.com
Mon Dec 7 17:43:21 CET 2009


What about readanysf~? You can send it [seek $1( and you can also get 
the file length in seconds out with [route length]

Quoth Roman Haefeli, on 06/12/09 23:57:
> Hi all
>
> Yeah, it's never too late for basic questions. Basically i would like to
> create file player patch, that let's you pick a soundfile (be it a wav)
> of any number of channels and a bit depth currently supported by
> [readsf~] and it should be able to play from any position between the
> start and the end of the file. 
>
> Usually i used a kludge by using [soundfiler] in order to get the number
> of sample frames of the file and then i calculated the number of bytes
> to be skipped in order to be able to let [readsf~] play the file from a
> random position. However, this only works when the actual header size of
> the file is constant (i.e. known and the same for every file; ok, when
> the header sizes would be known, they wouldn't need to be the same for
> all files, but you get the point) and when you know beforehand the bit
> depth of the file(s), since [readsf~] reads it correctly, but doesn't
> tell you about it.
>
> Now, i would like to be able to play wav files correctly with arbitrary
> (unkown) bit depths and arbitrary (unkown) number of channels. Also, i
> am looking for a way to be able to load both, simple RIFF WAV and so
> called 'Broadcast WAV' files (the ones with a 'bext' header signature). 
>
> I also tried [wavinfo] from ext13. However, this seems to work only with
> the former (simple) format, but not with broadcast wav-files. Funny
> enough, [readsf~] seems to have everything needed built-in, since it
> reads both formats correctly, it just does not expose those functions to
> the pd patch (as this unfortunately is often the problem with many
> object classes). 
>
> Any idea or pointers to other externals welcome!
>
> Roman
>
>
>
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