Apologies if this is a distraction.
The soundfiler object is clearly fundamental to digital music. 
I think it needs a makeover. I'm willing to help, but it's been getting 
particularly difficult and I think, unnecessarily complicated to create patches 
that automatically load a folder of sound files which may be mono or stereo (or 
even quad?).Since this information is contained within the header of each file 
(although it's a pain with the different formats), would it not be sensible to 
have a second outlet in soundfiler that delivers the number of channels, before 
the number of samples in the file is delivered from the left outlet? Perhaps 
also other info, but what would be relevant to a patch? I think channels is a 
necessary piece of information. 

I prod you for a feature, and I probably have as many of these cattle prod 
moments hitting me from behind as I work on my patches.
Cheers,Bisous,Ed

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