Hi,

I was wondering what would be the best way to play audio files through pd? I'm setting up an Arduino to have 10 to 12 switches and then using pduino so when you press a switch an audio file plays.
If you haven't heard of or used Arduino that shouldn't matter. I just mention it in case someone has done something similar.
I'm using oggread~ at the moment, which works, but I'm having trouble getting good quality ogg files, and converting others usually results in a pretty crappy sounding file. Any ideas?

I'm all the latest versions on a mac by the way.

you can use [readsf~] to play wav files, which will be larger but the same quality as whatever other format you converted them from.

if you have wav/flac files and you need to save space, i find "oggenc -b 192 file.wav" usually sounds ok to my ears, you can increase the number for more quality and bigger files. converting mp3 or other lossy compressed formats to different lossy compressed formats is generally a Bad Thing, you'll get worse quality.

Thanks for the reply. Space shouldn't be a problem, as long as the patch remains stable. I'll try out readsf and let ye know how it works out.