Sound

[Ken Ray]

Actually, you can go right to the tip at:

http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/metacard.htm?aud002

Enjoy!

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Crawford" <michael.crawford at stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 5:19 PM
Subject: Sound


> >
> >
> >Could someone help me with sound related properties (MacOS 9.1):
> >I want to record some voice to a file and then play it.
> >This is what I have so far:
> >
> >record sound file x
> >stop recording
> >start player 1
> >
> >but the playback sounds very funny. I know I may have to set some
> >recording/playback properties but I know nothing about sound in general.
> >Also, can I record to a variable instead of file?
> >I wish the archive had a search engine...
> >
> >Regards, Andu Novac
> >
> 
> 
> 
> There  is an article about this at the sons of thunder website:
> 
> http://www.sonsothunder.com/index2.htm
> 
> 
> Which describes almost exactly the sort of problems you are having 
> and a potential solution.
> 
> 
> This is quoted below:
> 
> 
> "> I've wasted a lot of time in the past trying to get QuickTime sound
> >  recording working. So before I try again with the latest version of 
> >MetaCard, has anyone had any success with it?
> 
> Seems to work fine here now in 2.4.3. It's a major hack internally, 
> though, because of bugs in QT recording (we have to always record CD 
> quality to a QT movie and then use a conversion function to output 
> the type of file requested).
> 
> >  I still get irritating squeeks on my mac and grabled garbage on my
> >  windows.
> 
> Be sure you're recording to a format that "play audioClip" 
> understands, which mostly rules out all of the compressed formats QT 
> can produce. If you must play those, use "play videoClip <file>" 
> instead. That uses QT, which although much slower and more memory 
> intensive can play many more formats than the default play command 
> which uses low-level sound routines in Win32 and MacOS which don't 
> support compression.
> 
> Posted 9/2/2002 by Scott Raney to the MetaCard List "
> 
> 
> 
> Michael
>