In re:

>All sound-file reading ugens and utils (possibly excluding sndinfo, but 
>including soundin, diskin, hetro, etc.) seem to only read in aiff files with 
>markers (loop points, etc), and cause system errors otherwise(?)

>I was working on a piece over the last two weeks and experienced this with 
>several different orcs and scos.

>I just fudged by opening everything in SDII and adding dummy loop points before 
>reading the files with csound ugens.

I have also noticed something similar to this, but hadn't yet gathered
enough quantifiable & repeatable info.

Essentially, after sndinfo reads an aiff file (touched/created in
SoundEdit) the EOF "mark" is gone, and when I next read the file with
soundin or diskin, the file and all the memory addresses after it are
read continuosly. I started noticing that relatively short proceesees
were taking forever, or that I'd hit a type 10 or 11 (not helpful in and
of itself), but after a full system crash that didn't get to the
debugger, I'd have no free hard drive space and either an enormous .snd
file or an invisible temp file equalling all my free hard drive space.

As long as I don't use sndinfo, there are no problems with soundin or
diskin.

Grant
gcc@kodak.com

> Essentially, after sndinfo reads an aiff file (touched/created in
> SoundEdit) the EOF "mark" is gone, and when I next read the file with
> soundin or diskin, the file and all the memory addresses after it are
> read continuosly. I started noticing that relatively short proceesees
...

I can not make this happen - I have done the following...

1) generated an AIFF file;
2) played the file with "sndfinfo";
3) used the file as input to "soundin";
4) generated another file;
5) played that file with "sndinfo";
6) played the original file with "sndinfo".

Everything looks alright so far - there must be something you guys are
doing that I'm not - does it ALWAYS happen? Which OS release are you
using (all bets are off with 7.5.1 - upgrade to 7.5.3 if you are using
7.5.1).

Otherwise could you send me score and orc files, even put a copy of the
soundfiles somewhere I could get them (please don't binhex/mail them) -
does it happen with the little "snap1" soundfile we ship with the test
suite?

Thanks,

Dave

Dave Madole
Technical Director, Center for Contemporary Music
Listserv Administrator

Mills College
Oakland, CA 94613
510-430-2336

madole@mills.edu