i'm making an installation piece and using readanysf~ to playback some files. i've used it in the past and found it very reliable. but now it seems that triggering playback on six of them at the same time crashes pd. not constantly (weirdly enough) but too often anyway.

i'll propably stick to normal readsf~ for this time, i only needed readanysf~ to slightly manipulate the playback speed, but has anyone else bumped into this problem?

it's osx 10.6.8, pd-ext 0.42.5. i'm using a big audio buffer (200ms) cause there's no real-time processing (= no latency issues) and i want to make it as solid as possible.

yes, I've experienced all sorts of weird things with readanysf~, from pd fatal crashes to unusual glitches. Sometimes I must hit "play" message several times to make it play some files. (this is totally weird) .

I'm currently using readanysf~ to implement a player that plays sound from movies (avi files mainly) but I found it makes really awful glitches when trying to play the file from random positions. I use "pcm_seek $1" messages for the later.

Is there any way to erase the audio buffer before playing next random fragment so that to avoid glitch?

Ok, just got it to work sending a stop message just before starting the new segment

@cacosomoza said:

I'm currently using readanysf~ to implement a player that plays sound from movies (avi files mainly) but I found it makes really awful glitches when trying to play the file from random positions. I use "pcm_seek $1" messages for the later.

i've only managed to play 16bit wav files reliably...