[PD] acquiring information about wav files

[João Pais]

there's [soundfile_info) as well, iemlib

> Hi all
>
> I am looking for a way to get information about WAV files in Pd,
> specifically the number of channels and the number of frames. I know
> [wavinfo], but it does not seem to work on windows ("error: could not
> read WAV-header" with any file I could find) and on linux it seems to
> read only a subset of WAV formats. It does not read from widely used
> broadcast format WAV files. The target platform is windows AND linux
> anyway in this case, so I need a portable solution.
>
> The most troubling fact is, that some Pd-vanilla classes ([soundfiler],
> [readsf~]) actually do retrieve the information I need, they read both,
> the number of frames and the number of channels correctly, with all pcm
> encoded wav files I tried, but - what a pity - they don't expose this
> information to the patch level.
>
> Hopefully I am overseeing the obvious here. Hints are very welcome.
>
> Roman
>
>
>
>
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