This issue popped up as I was browsing the Glitch Artists Collective: Tool Time facebook group. One of the users said it was unable to load files that were >100MB, so I rendered out 2 hours of white noise in audacity and tried to load it, and voilà, this message popped up in the terminal:

refusing to load sample files bigger than 100 MB

This error is generated in SampleBuffer.cpp where the loading breaks if the file is too large:

Now, this change was added by @tobydox back in '09 to fix a bug - #2458375, which I can't find and it's either forever gone or buried on sourceforge somewhere.

Now, I don't want to blindly remove that break without knowing the context of the bug, but 100MB is very limiting when dealing with uncompressed audio, not just for the purpose of databending, but also when remixing longer tracks and importing stems, so input on this is appreciated.