The Dark Side of the Moon tour was a true Quad system, and I heard it in an outdoor amphitheater. I’ve never heard anything so amazing before or since. But that was mixed quad. Simulators are a different animal. If I am not mistaken they break out the sound by frequency ranges.
Bob S > On Apr 13, 2020, at 1:30 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
