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Re: [sc-users] soundfile size advice



nescivi said :
> On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:52:52 Karsten Gebbert wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > me and a friend have been wondering what file format to use when
> > reading/writing large multichannel soundfiles ( >= 4G the limit of what
> > "WAV" can handle). I saw that libsndfile does read/write "W64" which
> > theoretically does what I want, but when trying to cue a 8G/16 channel
> > file it just tells me it can't open it. Any recommendations for a
> > scenario like this?
> 
> 
> 
> Can you post the exact error message you get in SC?

sure:

b = Buffer.cueSoundFile(s,"/home/krgn/16ch_sines.w64",0,16)

"File '/home/krgn/16ch_sines.w64' could not be opened."

I did some more test yesterday to eliminate certain factors in the 
process: first, I made the above mentioned soundfile in SC with the 
following code:

//-------------------------------------------------------------------
n = 16;

o = ServerOptions.new.numOutputBusChannels = 16;

SynthDef(\sine,{
	arg out=0, gate=1, amp=0.5, freq=440, 
	attack=0, decay=1.0, sustain=0.3, release=1.4;
	Out.ar(out,
		SinOsc.ar(freq.dup,0,
			EnvGen.ar(
			Env.adsr(attack,decay,sustain,release,curve:-8),
			gate:gate,levelScale:amp,doneAction:2)))
}).store;

Ppar(
	Array.fill(8,{
                | i |
		Pbind(
			\instrument,\sine,
			\delta,[0.25,0.5,1,2].choose,
			\scale,Scale.dorian,
			\degree,Prand([0,3,6,9,\rest],inf),
			\ctranspose,[24,-12,0,12,24].choose,
			\db,-30,
			\out,i*2)
	})).render("/home/krgn/16ch_sines.wav",60 * 
60,44100,"WAV","int16",o);


//-------------------------------------------------------------------

The rendered file is 4.8G big. sndfile-info says the following about it:

~$ sndfile-info 16ch_sines.w64 

Version : libsndfile-1.0.18

========================================
File : 16ch_sines.w64
Length : 5080322160
riff : 5080322160
wave
 fmt : 48
  Format        : 0x1 => WAVE_FORMAT_PCM
  Channels      : 16
  Sample Rate   : 44100
  Block Align   : 32
  Bit Width     : 16
  Bytes/sec     : 1411200
data : 5080322072

----------------------------------------
Sample Rate : 44100
Frames      : 158760064
Channels    : 16
Format      : 0x000B0002
Sections    : 1
Seekable    : TRUE
Duration    : 01:00:00.001


It should certainly be possible to read this file in SC, since SC also 
produced it :). When I reduce the render to 60 seconds, the file works
without problems.

Any ideas?

Best,
Karsten

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