[PD] acquiring information about wav files

[Lorenzo]

> there's [soundfile_info) as well, iemlib
>
In fact... And here's an 'unpacked' version of the help ;)


>> 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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