Richmond, can’t resist saying that I can remember quad… I was never convinced. It was certainly a fashion. Comes into one of my favourite films, ‘Local Hero’, where the scallywag fisherman from Murmansk connects with the wet-behind-the-ears young oil man from Houston. it was just a little moment in history when such a bit of dialogue might have existed… but I digress.
I have tinnitus, and hearing aids, but I can still enjoy a live, non-amplified performance, and there is no equipment I could afford that could make a recording in any format sound as good. OT, I know. Graham > On 13 Apr 2020, at 09:42, Richmond via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Having the ability to import resources into a stack, whether they be images, > videos or sounds is a great strength; > and much better than having a ReadMe document accompanying one's standalones > telling people where they have to > bung a slew of referenced resources . . . knowing that about 50% of people > will put them in the wrong place and then > complain they want their money back because your application doesn't work. > > This may be "old-fashioned", but so am I teaching kids how to program with > BBC computers from the 1980s; > doesn't mean it is a bad thing. > > And on Linux . . . what a shambles. > > Re MP3s /per se/: either LiveCode should be capable of embedding them, or, > possibly by leveraging open source > code, it should be able to read MP3 files and store the musical data > contained within them inwith stacks in some > format that can then be played . . . > > The compression available via MP3 well outweighs any possible loss in sound > quality - frankly I wonder if anyone over the > age of 18 can tell the difference unless the sound file is then played > through some high-end equipment. > > When I was 23 I was walking past a HiFi shop in Durham City when I was > seduced to go inside and listen > to a demonstration of Quadraphonic sound (does anyone except me actually > remember that?). I was sat down in an > office chair between 4 speakers and listened to some music by Queen; then > again on another chair between 2 speakers. > A slightly oily fellow with an unctuous voice then said, "Of course you heard > the difference between the stereo > and the quad, didn't you?" Talk about leading tag questions. Feeling like a > "right peasant," I said, "No" and left. > > I did actually hear a difference: but not in terms of the musical quality as > such, but in the effect of being "within' the space where the music was > taking place. > > I went home and by jacking together 6 loud speakers and a tobacco tin to my > record player I got a Quad effect for nix! > > Purists (err; sound experts or plain posers? who knows) would have howled. > > Now I listen to any old music "as it comes" and feel lucky that I can hear > it, especially on mornings like this one > when my tinnitus is singing a song of its own. > > Embed, embed, embed . . . Please. > > Best, Richmond. > > On 13.04.20 2:01, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> Graham Samuel wrote: >> >> > Still, subject closed - I presume the mother ship has long ago decided >> > not to enhance LC in this respect any time soon. >> >> Not at all. I noticed this thread got off on the tangent of codec >> specifics, but never addressed your core question: >> >> LiveCode can play all of those and more. >> >> Just not specifically using the old audioClip method. That method was an >> early attempt to emulate HC's resource-fork-based SND clips, and never got >> past using the .au format which was popular way back in the day on the >> platform MetaCard was born on, Unix. >> >> Since then audio and video support assumes richer formats of greater length >> than are practical with embedded media clips. >> >> Play them as files and you should be fine. >> >> (That is, unless you need to deploy to Linux, where the Player object >> started breaking a few years after the turn of the century and has gotten >> steadily worse since.) >> > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
