i am trying to build something which can play spontaneous selections of a soundfile.
with a short sound file it works. from a certain file lenghts it seems only to play from the start of the selection to the end. i don't want to cut the files before. a 5 min files should be possible.
i used -maxsize -resize. sometimes there is a error " $2 argument out of range"

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/selection-looper.pd

in this patch i use sliders.
i guess at the end i look for something with two bangs.

I just tried this with file larger than your maxsize to make sure it's a large as you allow, and it works fine. My guess is that you may be forgetting to update both sliders before playing the new file. Perhaps banging them after loading a file would be a good idea.

thanks for taking the time to try it.
my point of irritation is that if i use a fixed lenghts of the portion to play on the sliders than this portion gets longer the more i move towards the middle of the file. towards the end it gets shorter again.
it should be the same lenght whereever i start the loop.
i have to rethink the whole thing.