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-requ...@lists.iem.at wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 20:29:44 +0100 > From: oliver <oli...@klingt.org <mailto:oli...@klingt.org>> > Cc: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at>> > Subject: Re: [PD] [sfinfo~] > Message-ID: <32ea001b-5109-cb72-2397-cb820d930...@klingt.org > <mailto:32ea001b-5109-cb72-2397-cb820d930...@klingt.org>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > 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 -------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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