Hi everyone,
I’m trying to load a remote audio file in PlugData using sfload (from ELSE).

The URL comes from a small PHP script that returns a raw WAV file, for example:

https://www.peamarte.it/freesound_get.php?q=drums&max_dur=15&mode=raw

But sfload prints:

sfload: Could not open file 'https://www.peamarte.it/freesound_get.php?q=drums&max_dur=15&mode=raw'

So I guess it only accepts local file paths, not URLs.

Is there any simple way to convert or download this kind of dynamic URL so sfload can read it?
Or any object in PlugData that can fetch a file from a URL and save it locally first?

Thanks in advance, emiliano

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@porres

Thanks

actually I’ve already fixed it, but I had to create a bridge mechanism to sanitize the URLs coming from the Freesound.org API before feeding them to sfload~. You can check out the project here.
https://www.peamarte.it/env/envion_netaudio.html

Thanks for the tip! 🙌
Yes, I figured it out later — the issue was that sfload~ doesn’t handle dynamic or redirected URLs properly.
I ended up creating a small PHP bridge that cleans and redirects the Freesound.org links before sending them to Pd.
It’s working nicely now!

what is the issue where it doesn't handle it nicely? I can maybe improve it on the object itself

please open an issue on my repository