is it possible to read the size of an audio file without soundfiler? i'm using readsf~ to play wav-files and it would nice to see how long the file is...

of course i can read the file also to soundfiler, and get this info, but that means i have to read it to an array (a BIG one, in this case) and that freezes everything for a split second, as we know..

The [wavinfo] or [soundfile_info] objects might help you here.

thanks!

the wavinfo didn't seem to work, seems to have a problem with broadcast wave format?? http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-dev@iem.at/msg07258.html

but soundfile_info worked nicely! thanks again..

I've had trouble with wavinfo on windows, so I just use soundfile_info

yeah, the [wavinfo] gives values for "sample number" what doesn't seem to have anything to do with the sample's size. for example: "15623.9" for 56 second wav? and "1587" for 36 second wav?

and osx 10.4 + pd-ext 0.41.4 here.