[PD] [sfinfo~]

[Miller Puckette]

Hi PA -

Are you doing stuff that "soundfiler" doesn't?  If so, it would be better
to add to the soundfiler object than to add a new object with its own name.

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 06:17:21PM +0000, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote:
> Hello again
> 
> So I was missing an object that is quite useful when dealing with audio files in batches. Attached is the ugly file in progress to read (with [file]) the header of audio files and demingle it to get the number of channels and number of frames and sampling rate… what the Max object [sfinfo~] does.
> 
> Now I notices that the pd API offers me the headers to recode it in C - so I have 2 options here
> 
> - I don’t bother anyone and I coder it as fluid.sfinfo
> - I code it as [sfinfo~] and make a PR and pray that the dev gods pick on it and in the meantime I just include my PR version.
> 
> I looked in decken and couldn’t find that string (soundfile, sound file, etc) so I’m pretty sure it is not there.
> 
> In all cases this is a very useful object to have. I offer my pd attempt in sacrifice to the people who want to have a laugh. It kind of works… but that ‘extended’ format (80 bit float anyone?) is a pain to detangle :)
> 





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