I'm not too worried about the disk - that's what it does. I'm thinking
of the poor human trying to scroll through it in WordPad or emacs... and
then trying to repair it when they make a typo...

We can write pvoc data to a text file alreday, in CDP, but this is for
extra, diagnostic purposes. It is not the primary format, however. I
will soon adapt my play program to render analysis files directly, for
which the binary format is naturally appropriate, efficient and safe.

There are times when it is useful to print out the sample values in a
WAVE file; but I can't imagine anyone would use text as the primary
working format for all their compositions!

Richard Dobson

Michael Gogins wrote:
> 
> As for dealing with pvoc in text form, my disk is 14 gigabytes and only half
> full, even though loaded with C++, VB, Java, Csound, Silence, Mathematica,
> MS Office, all my pieces in mp3s, the master for one album and part of
> another. I think I can handle a few megabytes. Oh, and some games, Cool Edit
> Pro, and Emagic Gold. Oh, and parts of jam sessions recorded to HD in
> float...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Dobson 
> To: csound@maths.ex.ac.uk 
> Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Linear Prediction in Csound
> 
> >I will take another look at the SDIF spec. If the format is still fluid,
> >than this may be an excuse to get it solidified. I remember feeling that
> >too many essential items of information were delegated to optional
> >chunks.
> >
> >A pvoc analysis file can be megabytes in size - easily larger than the
> >soundfile it represents. Can anyone really want to deal with it in text
> >form?
> >
> >Richard Dobson
> >
> >
> >Michael Gogins wrote:
> >>
> >> I suggest you use SDIF as this is more in keeping with the public-domain
> >> character of our work. I also believe it would be technically adequate.
> >>
> >> As an alternative, I suggest using Extensible Markup Language (tagged
> text
> >> files) as it is easier to code readers and writers for this type of
> format,
> >> and to use it from and for other applications.
> >>
> >
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