Re: Identifying the beginning or end of a data file in an AU
Re: Identifying the beginning or end of a data file in an AU
- Subject: Re: Identifying the beginning or end of a data file in an AU
- From: Richard Dobson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:19:58 +0100
On 15/06/2010 13:48, Carl Parker wrote:
To be honest I wasn't expecting any way of doing what I was asking
without creating an offline unit, I just needed to check with people
more experienced than myself!
Unfortunately I can't use offline units because the applications that
will be running it don't support them.
This seems to me to be a classic case of choosing the wrong tool for the
job. Is it so ingrained in the collective psyche that "everything should
be an AudioUnit"? There is no mention for example of how the resulting
data is to be output - read off the screen interactively? Written to a
file somewhere? The need for a sophisticated GUI seems minimal.
Considering that a simple command-line utility can do this sort of thing
falling off a log, written in an afternoon, and can be run from a shell
script just as easily on all files in a directory (and even wrapped in a
simple GUI app if need be), the inappropriateness of trying to implement
it in an AudioUnit (or in ~any~ real-time plugoin format) seems stark.
That said, there is really *very little point* in having an offline
format standard if nobody supports it, including those who defined it in
the first place!
Richard Dobson
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