On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 06:30 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 03:14 PM, Éric Dussault wrote:
Wouldn'd it have been great if the Finale 2004 advertisement on MakeMusic's
website could be made so they can be viewed by a macintosh computer. All the
sound samples with soundfonts and musical playback are not compatible with
macs. They have a particular talent for annoying mac people, have they?
That's not true... they can be heard perfectly fine on the Mac. One must only install Windows Media Player for Mac (version 7 if you're on a Classic OS, plus there's an OS X version). Then, since the "mms" protocol is not interpreted by the MacOS, all you have to do is copy the link from the page, then "open URL" from the Player and paste it in.
That's kind of like saying Finale works "perfectly fine" in Classic (which Coda actually claimed at one point until they were shamed into qualifying that statement a little).
I actually tried that awful "copy and paste the link" kludge and even that didn't work for me.
The fact is, websites should not use Windows Media Player files, *period*. At the very least, if they are going to offer WinMedia, they should also offer an alternative format that actually works well on multiple platforms -- MP3, Real, QuickTime.... Really, there's no excuse for not making these audio files MP3, an open standard which can be played by almost anybody.
- Darcy
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