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 <danomat...@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-requ...@lists.iem.at >> <mailto: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/> > > > -------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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