Playing Simultaneous Sounds?

[Judy Perry]

Hi Scott,

Thanks again! I will pass along.

I always encourage my students to embed such resources because I know that
they are using Windows and I will be grading things on Mac OS X, and I
know that they really are not paying attention to pathing differences
(despite giving them examples on the specialWhatever directories from Ken
Ray's Scripting Conference stack).  Part of the problem is that they just
don't have an OS X machine to test on (other than mine) and I don't have
OS 9, and only have WinXP under emulation, and even that not at the
moment.

I had thought of the audio-only movie file qua videoclip idea... might be
the best to use in this particular type of circumstance.

Thanks again!

Judy

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, Judy Perry wrote:
>
> >> use two or more players set to different filenames.  Or use an imported
> >> audioclip and a player.
>
> > Must they be external files then?
>
> Players reference external files.  However, if you need the sound files to
> be internal, you could try importing audio-only files as videoClips.  I just
> tried this on OSX and it works (not sure if this technique will work on
> Windows without QT).  I used Trevor DeVore's technique of saving WAV files
> out of QuickTimePro as MOV files.  In Rev I imported the MOVs as videoClips
> (File>Import As Control>Video File...).
>
> To control playback:
>
>   play videoClip <clipName.mov>
>   play stop videoClip <clipName.mov>
>
> I even tried this, which works here:
>
>   play videoClip <clipName.mov> looping
>
> NOTE: For best results, it seems necessary to reference the clip by name, as
> opposed to number (ie videoClip 1).  Playing and stopping a clip by number
> works Ok, but stopping a looping clip seems to fail unless you reference the
> clip by name.
>
> Remember, if you import media into your stack, all those assets get loaded
> into memory before you can use them -- you should be wary of this if you're
> importing large MP3 files or similar.