[PD] soundfiler is slow; readsf~ no filelength

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Here's the actual attachment...

Le 2011-11-03 à 21:18:00, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
> Le 2011-11-03 à 19:04:00, Samuel Burt a écrit :
>
>> Thanks, Hans, but iemlib/soundfile_info is also giving me the error.
>> soundfile_info_read-error:  /filepath/growl.oeoeoe.01.aif is no 
>> RIFF-WAVE-file
>
> I made this patch (attached) that does it either the long way (for current 
> releases of GridFlow) or the short way (with a feature I re-added to GridFlow 
> today).
>
> The trick is to open the file, skip the first 22 bytes, and then read the 
> next 4 bytes as a 32-bit number with the most important byte first 
> («big-endian»).
>
> However, because the command for reversing the order of the bytes was 
> missing, I had to make my own converter by taking 4 separate bytes...
>
> Anyway. Now you have something that works, and it's easy to add to your 
> patches. It does basically the same thing that [soundfiler] does, but without 
> reading the actual sound.
>
> You need to install GridFlow from http://gridflow.ca/

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