JSFX: Load audio files from anywhere on disk + supporting more audio formats

[meta]

Two suggestions for the price of one!

- A new type of slider that can be set to the path of any file on disk. (Through a OS native browse dialog or TrackFX_SetNamedConfigParm). Additionally changing file_open to be able to open files from anywhere on disk not just REAPER\Data, maybe with an added argument to specify whether the input is relative to REAPER\Data or an external absolute path.

- If I'm not mistaken the only audio formats openable by JSFX are .wav and .ogg. Would be possible/difficult to add support for more?

[Xenakios]

Originally Posted by meta

- If I'm not mistaken the only audio formats openable by JSFX are .wav and .ogg. Would be possible/difficult to add support for more?

I suspect the audio file reading code in JesuSonic dates back to the earliest days, maybe even before Reaper. These days it should not be difficult to make use of Reaper's PCM_sources that implement the audio file reading support in the main application. (However, it would be more problematic for the standalone JSFX plugin, they'd need to add the Reaper PCM_source implementations for that too or just leave that use the old limited audio file support...)

[Masi]

Yes, please!

Masi

PS: BTW, there is a bug that the slider is broken when you use the syntaxt with = to name the slider.

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Originally Posted by Masi

PS: BTW, there is a bug that the slider is broken when you use the syntaxt with = to name the slider.

Please post Bug-reports into the corresponding forums. This makes life easier for the devs...

[sai'ke]

Loading audio from anywhere on disk would open doors to a lot of additional creative plugins by allowing drag and drop from the media explorer.

I was hoping that I could use the return string of gfx_getdropfile(0, strhandle) in file_open, but it seems that absolute paths don't work at all

While it is possible to have a separate lua script copy these files for me, this is kind of a pain for the user. Also, it'd make a big trashpile in the data dir.

[Justin]

Originally Posted by sai'ke

Loading audio from anywhere on disk would open doors to a lot of additional creative plugins by allowing drag and drop from the media explorer.

I was hoping that I could use the return string of gfx_getdropfile(0, strhandle) in file_open, but it seems that absolute paths don't work at all

While it is possible to have a separate lua script copy these files for me, this is kind of a pain for the user. Also, it'd make a big trashpile in the data dir.

A little late, but coming in 6.17!

[sai'ke]

Originally Posted by Justin

A little late, but coming in 6.17!

Oh wow! Thanks a lot! Looking forward to taking this for a spin

So many new options!

[Wahed]

Originally Posted by Justin

A little late, but coming in 6.17!

Wonderful !!! Thank you very much !

[mschnell]

I checked that this works for text files in 6.18.

 handle = file_open("cc table/test.txt");

works (file test.txt is in the Appdata\Roaming\Reaper\Data\cc table\ folder)

 handle = file_open("c:/test/test.txt");

works (file test.txt is in the c:\test\ folder)

 handle = file_open("c:/test/test.ttt");

works (file test.ttt is in the c:\test\ folder)
(With this syntax, we now can handle text files that don't feature the extension ".txt")

 handle = file_open("/test/test.txt");

does not work (file test.txt is in the c:\test\ folder)
(Default drive not used: supposedly no problem at all. )

-Michael

[deeb]

Originally Posted by sai'ke

Oh wow! Thanks a lot! Looking forward to taking this for a spin

So many new options!

never dived in JSFX . I think probably this will be a very good reason to!
Would love to see a basic example!

Looking forward to see what you are up to!

[TonE]

For what can this be useful, for audio and for midi? Any list from your head what would come to your mind typically? (before implementing anything, just to understand the possibilities space)

Can RS5k be used in a better way because of this? (Because I have seen a few RS5k requests lately)