[PD] [sfinfo~]

[Dan Wilcox]

Ah, sorry, I meant "read" not "open." If calling read without an array takes the same amount of time as reading into an array, please open a bug report.

> On Jan 28, 2022, at 9:19 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Don't pass an array name when calling open and it reports the info without reading any samples, ie. just reads the header info then closes the file.
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2022, at 8:37 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list-request at lists.iem.at> wrote:
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 20:29:44 +0100
>> From: oliver <oliver at klingt.org <mailto:oliver at klingt.org>>
>> Cc: Pd-List <pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list at lists.iem.at>>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] [sfinfo~]
>> Message-ID: <32ea001b-5109-cb72-2397-cb820d930bad at klingt.org <mailto:32ea001b-5109-cb72-2397-cb820d930bad at klingt.org>>
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>> 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
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