help with loading audio clips into a stack

[Chris Sheffield]

Hi Jon,

There's only one way to do it that I'm aware of.  Save the audio  
files as binary data in custom properties of the stack.  Then,  
because the player requires a file path/url, you have to temporarily  
write the data to disk, set the player's filename to that file, then  
play it and delete the file when it's done.  There's really no other  
way.  I actually do this in my company's application, and it works  
quite well.

The thing that stinks is that if those audio files are large, that  
could be a big stack, and that's going to use more memory.  But maybe  
that's not really an issue.

Chris


On Jul 14, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Jon wrote:

> Ban and I finally managed to get a player he likes, but the way I  
> did it, the audio clips have to reside on the hard drive.  As you  
> can read below, Ban wants the audio data to be stored inside the  
> stack, so users can't clone it.
>
> The problem is that I don't know how to "suck" an audio clip into a  
> stack and then tell the player to play it back.
>
> Can anyone else help Ban?
>
> :)
>
> Jon
>

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Chris Sheffield
Read Naturally
The Fluency Company
http://www.readnaturally.com
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