Hello! I am a noob when it comes to pure data. So now thats out of the way onto the problem at hand: I am trying to get pd to read and play an aiff file but it just wont do it. I used an example i found here on one of the topics but that did not do it.

read /hdname/users/username/desktop/soundfile.aiff array1

i typed that into the message box and then hooked it up to soundfiler but nothin... i was also wondering could i utilize the mp3cast~ or sfread~ objects?

i am a mac user also! So this is the problem i present to you guys in the hopes of solving it finally!

thank u in advance!

umm, did you also make a table called "array1" ?

and, after "read" add "-resize" so the file fits in the table

In addition to what mod said, did you click on the message box or send a bang to it?

I'll try those suggestions out! I did create he array1 table but nothing showed up on it sadly.. i'll try the -resize command as well. And yes I clicked on the message box and tried to send a bang to it several times but it just did not work.... I'm using Pd extended 0.42.5.

When i tried the original message it came up with an error message saying no such file or directory....This is weird as the file is on my desktop and i specifically instruct pd to look for the file on the desktop.... Should i construct the patch again?

Hi,
to make sure you set the correct file you can use the openpanel object. It opens a file dialog.
Also, I suggest you to take a look at pd-tutorial book, there is a very informative section on to playback soundfiles. http://pd-tutorial.com/english/ch03s04.html

I hope this helps.

ahmetkizilay

It might be because you're including the hard drive name. Don't include it. Starting the path with a "/" says you're at the root. Also, starting with "~" means you're at the home directory, so you could shorten your path to:

~/Desktop/soundfile.aiff

If you have spaces in the path, you'll also run into problems. Pd interprets spaces in a message box as separators, so it won't think it is one path. There are ways around it, of course. It's not a problem if you use [opendialog], for example.

Hello fellow pd dudes!

I was able to get a song into pd and read it into an array finally! The problem was the aiff format in the end. I changed the path to the shorter format and tried with the aiff file and there was an error message again, this time saying bad header format and such... but now it works. I changed the file to a wav format and now it works!

Thank you guys!

Wildo