Hi,

I am trying to use soundfiler to read raw data from multichannel recordings. I have recordings with 1 to 4 channels and 8, 16 or 24 bits per channel.

read -resize -raw 65536 3 3 l somefilename table1 table2

works fine.

read -resize -raw 65536 3 3 3 3 l somefilename table1 table2 table3 talbe4

or

read -resize -raw 65536 3 3 1 l somefilename table1 table2 table3

however fails and I get the error
error: usage: read [flags] filename tablename...
flags: -skip <n> -nframes <n> -resize -maxsize <n> ...
-raw <headerbytes> <channels> <bytespersamp> <endian (b, l, or n)>.

I am absolutely sure that the files in my example contain 4x24 bit channels and 2x24bit+1x8bit respectively since I have written myself a conversion tool to extract my required channels before the use in pd. But reading them directly would be much more convenient.

Another question: is there a way to use spaces in the names of files/directorys?

Thanks for any advice!

TreibAir

P.S.:Just found out: trying to read a file with just one channel leads to the same problem

Ok, my fault! I misunderstood the documentation and thought, I have to enter the bits for each channel and not one number for channels and one for bits per channel (which would be more useful for me).