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[oliver]

Miller Puckette via Pd-list wrote:
> 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.

The one thing that [soundfiler] can not do, is to report the length of a 
soundfile WITHOUT fully loading it into an array.

That would be a great feature to have for [soundfiler]'s right outlet, 
especially in the case of big files.

You can get all the other information (channels, samplerate etc.) by 
loading just a small sniplet of the source file (even 1 sample is 
sufficient IIRC) into a buffer, but not the length. you would need to 
add "-resize" to the load flags, which is not useful for (very) long files

i still use IEMLIB's [soundfile_info] for that purpose.



best

oliver