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I have tried a few things and now use signet instead of r8brain to convert the sample rate. And now the fixloop works perfectly!
Apparently signet can handle the loop points better than r8brain.

https://github.com/SamWindell/Signet

Nice! Good to hear that it's working.

Has anyone found any other nice tools to (automatically / semi automatically) create loop points / crossfades aside from the Endless Wav one linked in the original post, for Windows?
I found one more free one, Loop Auditioneer.

The problem is neither of these applications are accessible for blind users. I have a very old one called Extreme Sample Converter which can sometimes find good loops, but it struggles on more complex stereo sources like pads, evolving sounds etc.
It is better for me to find something that does this in a wav or similar file, as opposed to the Nord editor which isn't going to export loop points to anything other than a Nord file, which of course prevents the samples from being loaded into any other synths without finding loops again.

I suspect 99% of people just use the Nord editor but surely some people have put samples into other keyboards before too and if loops had to be determined I'm curious what was used.

Perhaps you can contact the developer of Endless Wav, seems still active in developing. Perhaps he can add some hooks that make it usable for blind users. It might also help others.
I used to use Extreme Sample Converter when I was using Kurzweil synths. So many difficult steps to get multi-velocity samples in.

Nord Sample Editor is fantastic and easy to use, they could easily add the option to read the loop-points in the input files and use those.
I have many sample sets that are looped, re-looping is difficult, that is why I wrote my Python program. An extra step, but easy to use (Once you install Python and get the path right etc...)

hi

nice tool, are you owning wavfile.py too?

I used it and found few balises that are missing, and failed to extract the loop details.

But thanks for this nice helper, really time saving.

Not sure how I can help. You need to get the enhanced version of wavefile.py as described in the github link (see first post), i do not own that version. Is open source as far as I know.
What do you mean with balises?

If you can clearify your question I can try to help.
Erik

florence is French, so from french to english Balises -> Tags....

"I used it and found few tags that are missing,"

just guessing.

hi,

sorry yes I wrote this message to quickly, my brain had no time to do the right translation

Silently some files failed to read loop information. Output was only 'filename' has no loops, but I suspected that they contain looping information. I run the code in debug mode to understand the issue. Here my proposal to be able to read more wav files.

- fixloop.py: changed the line 24/25 to

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        except Exception as err:
            print(f"{filename=} Unexpected {err=}, {type(err)=}")

- and in wavfile.py, added few unnecessary tags to be able to skip them, changes here here. Maybe even better solution is to skip all unknown tags by default...

hi Florence,

Thanks for the debugging and solution. I've committed the action to fixloop.py.
I've limited test wav files, so any new insights are welcome.

Erik

As far as I am aware, the errors occured with some of my .wav files; Florence was helping me make some nsmp files, as Nord Sample Editor is not accessible for blind users and most of my samples already had loop metadata from elsewhere.

I don't know which samples were causing the problem, but here's the whole archive. It's just a bunch of old Roland and Korg samples.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/ltn3mq
But hopefully it helps you track down the issue?