childressandrew

I want to be able to hot-swap samples in Max, using the buffer~ object, and be told the length of the new sample file -- not the length of the buffer, but the actual length of the audio file I'm loading in. Is there any way to do this? For example, if I had a 500ms kick sound and a 1000ms snare sound, could I replace the 500ms sound with the 1000ms sound in the same buffer~ and have Max tell me the length in milliseconds of the new .wav (or .aiff or whatever) file? Thanks!

I want to be able to hot-swap samples in Max, using the buffer~ object, and be told the length of the new sample file -- not the length of the buffer, but the actual length of the audio file I'm loading in.  Is there any way to do this?  For example, if I had a 500ms kick sound and a 1000ms snare sound, could I replace the 500ms sound with the 1000ms sound in the same buffer~ and have Max tell me the length in milliseconds of the new .wav (or .aiff or whatever) file?  Thanks!


reading-external-audio-file-info

[info~] does not do what I want, since it can only read the length of the [buffer~] object that it's linked to. My fear was that I would be stuck with whatever information I had already fed into [buffer~] and not be able to access the wider world of my hard drive.

Rick's suggestion, though, led me to the [sfinfo~] object, which 

 do what I want. It can reference a file outside of Max and give info about it.

[info~] does not do what I want, since it can only read the length of the [buffer~] object that it's linked to.  My fear was that I would be stuck with whatever information I had already fed into [buffer~] and not be able to access the wider world of my hard drive.

Rick's suggestion, though, led me to the [sfinfo~] object, which does do what I want.  It can reference a file outside of Max and give info about it.


Reading external audio file info