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Dev Log #52 - File Streaming
🕑 Added 2021-06-15 17:10:41 +0000 UTCI have been working on adding a long requested filesystem browser with an auto-preview.
Usually when you add a sample to a Blockhead project all audio data loaded into memory, but this isn't appropriate when previewing files on disk because they could be very large.
When previewing audio files with the new browser the audio data is streamed a little bit at a time instead. In large files the blue section in the progress bar represents the part of the file which has been streamed into memory.
The backend implementation of this took a while to get right but it seems to be working well now, so it is mainly UI stuff left to do.
Eventually I might look into automatic file indexing and tagging similar to what ADSR Sample Manager does, but that will be a much bigger task if I decide to go that route.
Comments
Marek Bereza
Ah great, it seems like it would be useful to have, especially if user is after a little snip from the song
Colugo Music
Not yet but i don't think it will be much trouble to add
Marek Bereza
nice! Sorry if this is an annoying question, but can you seek by clicking in the box?
