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[Miller Puckette]

Yep, I can think of other reasons you'd want to know the size of a soundfile
in a Pd patch without having to read the whole thing in.

cheers
M

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:32:02PM +0000, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote:
> > I forgot is even simpler (no need for an array)
> 
> Oh la la this is embarrassing. I didn’t know one could not supply an array… but that way I don’t get the size of the file in frames.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Indeed Miller I’ll do a PR to add it at the end then. I get everything else with soundfiler
> 
> For info, I need the size of the sum of my sound files in frames and in channels to allocate the right size once. I do that in Max and SC doing 2 passes, once to read the headers and accumulate what I need in both dimensions (and capture the SR at the same time) then I assign then I read and copy. For large corpora, this is useful.
> 
> So the proposal is not so big and bold as my first email… but still a needed feature.



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