I realize there are many externals out there such as readanysf~ which are ideally suited for playing alternate sound formats (ie. mp3, ogg, flac), with integrated looping controls etc..

But, do any externals exist capable of decoding the file and cat'ing the contents straight into an array?

Niceties of the externals' controls aside, it would be nice to be able to use the true power of PD to manipulate files without transcoding thousands of files if you get my drift.

I was wondering if somebody has created a patch to get the openpanel object to escape absolute paths in unix.

I am getting a weird error when I try to open a file with spaces or characters that need escaping , ie '-' in them.

For example: if you want to open a file named "01 temp - my song.wav" you would have to enter "01\ temp\ \- my\ song.wav". But if you try and enter that into a read message you'll get an error like "keycode 92: dropped" .

Similarly, if you use openpanel to select the same file, it will return /pathto/ 01 temp - my song.wav, not the escaped version.

So I guess my question is, short of renaming my entire sound file collection...

How do I open these files?????

thank you claudius....

by the way your 4d cube and haskell extensions were awesome at last years PD-con

Much Respect......