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Today's Topics:

1. About how many channels of 16/44.1 PCM audio should I be able
to stream from disk on an iPhone 4? (Morgan Packard)

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Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 17:09:19 -0400
From: Morgan Packard <email@hidden>
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Subject: About how many channels of 16/44.1 PCM audio should I be able
to stream from disk on an iPhone 4?
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Most of my audio code is built on top of the
STK<https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/> library.
I'm using STK's FileRead class to load audio from disk (which in turn uses
fopen to read the files).
I want to be able to play long files (too long to fit in memory), so I'm
loading them a bit at a time from disk before mixing them and sending them
out via the remoteIO callback.

The code I'm currently running is pretty solid streaming three stereo files
from disk, but begins to get glitchy as I start to add files above that.

I'd be grateful for a rough ballpark of how many stereo files I should be
able to play back simultaneously.

Questions:

- Am I indeed going to be limited by disk speed to a fairly low number of
files?
- Is disc speed enough of a bottleneck so that using compressed files might
give me a higher number of parallel playbacks?
- Is there something inherently slow or unreliable or inappropriate for
streaming audio from disk about fopen?

thanks,

-Morgan

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