hi,

I've been trying to figure a way out with the use of soundfiler to load to arrays. I know how to load in stereo files, but how do you get pd to detect when its a mono file and load/read from only 1 array instead of reading from 1 empty array?

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[wavinfo] will give you the number of channels in the original file, but only works for .wav files.

my hack for all sorts of files is to load them, and then read through every value in the right-hand stereo table, and if they all add to zero, its a mono file.

Oh, that's a clever one... thanks Matt!

you don't even really need to check the whole file. the first few hundred samples should even be enough.

also, make sure you send [const 0( to each table before loading a new file.

Hey Hardoff,

thanks for the (wav) info

I sorted it out, load any wav sample into soundfiler and it will output the right number of channels!

@hardoff said:

you don't even really need to check the whole file. the first few hundred samples should even be enough.

also, make sure you send [const 0( to each table before loading a new file.[/quote]
Mono checking like this during realtime playback isn't advisable though. It creates CPU spikes and for me audio dropouts.