On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:43 PM, David <dfket...@gmail.com> wrote: > According to the > help documentation, the '-raw' flag only applies to reading files. Is > that correct? > Well, you can write it back as a soundfile in the formats that [soundfiler] supports. But if it needs to be saved in the original format, you might want to try some of the other suggestions.
> > Anyway, I tried it and I'm getting a usage error: > > error: usage: read [flags] filename tablename... > flags: -skip <n> -nframes <n> -resize -maxsize <n> ... > -raw <headerbytes> <channels> <bytespersamp> <endian (b, l, or n)>. > > Here's what my patch looks like. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. > > [read -raw 0 1 8 n Default.syx array1( > | > [soundfiler] > [soundfiler] only supports 2, 3, or 4 bytes per sample... > > There's no "header" in the file, it's just raw data for a Midi sysex > message, and I want to read each byte as an integer value in the range > of 0 to 255. > ...which would be 1 byte. Definitely try the other suggestions. :-) .mmb > > David. > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Mike Moser-Booth <mmoserbo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Try using the -raw flag for [soundfiler]. Setting the <bytespersample> > > parameter to 2 will treat it as a 16-bit file. > > > > .mmb > > > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:07 PM, David <dfket...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It's probably very obvious, but I can't figure out how to read and > >> write files containing arbitrary binary data. I know there are objects > >> for reading and writing sound files, and there's [textfile] for > >> reading text files, but I want to read and write binary files, and > >> interpret each byte as a 16-bit integer. Does anyone have an example I > >> can look at? Since they will be small files, I just need to read them > >> sequentially, I don't need to jump around in the file randomly. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Mike Moser-Booth > > mmoserbo...@gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Mike Moser-Booth mmoserbo...@gmail.com
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