sound (audio) problems

2006-08-13 Thread Tom Robinson
I have developed a language program that plays sound files (.wav). After I updated to 2.7.3, the sound files would not play. I did not modify any script related to the files. The dataPath is set properly and the files are stored in the proper folder. If I click on individual sound files

Re: Sound screws up in Linux

2005-11-06 Thread Mark Talluto
On Nov 4, 2005, at 11:57 PM, Mathewson wrote: I suppose the bottom line is that I shall have to have a very dirty weekend embedding every possible sound configuration I can think of in a stack on the Mac and them messing around with it on the Kubuntu PC - although a little voice tells me that

Richmond "snorts" RR 2.6.1 - Linux & Sound

2005-11-06 Thread Mathewson
COW.aif" end mouseUp did not produce my "rich, mature, masculine voice" saying 'Brown Cow' - but something rather like Mickey Mouse high on drugs (the mind boggles) saying something like 'Brown Cow' in a high-pitched eccentric voice. the same went for an AU versi

Re: Sound on Linux and "stupid" Richmond

2005-11-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:43:55 -0500 Richmond Mathewson wrote: > For those of you working with the FREE NOVELL > LINUX RR Distro (for which I am extremely grateful) > KNOW NOW that the only sound format that > works is WAV. Richmond, i noticed that you imply that NOVELL gives awa

Oh Dear, Linux and Sound - A-A-A-A-GAIN

2005-11-05 Thread Mathewson
More egg-salad with the WAV files. 1. Is the problem that the WAV files are embedded? 1a. This seems unlikely as Kubuntu makes a hash of the same WAV files when played externally. 2. Whither QUICKTIME 4 LINUX and will this DO THE TRICK ? 3. Under-Documentation. 4. xanim - no, surely not? Rich

Sound on Linux and "stupid" Richmond

2005-11-05 Thread Mathewson
AIFF support for Linux had been added in RR 2.5 NOW . . . wouldn't it be lovely if one could find these things out in a simple and painless way . . . For those of you working with the FREE NOVELL LINUX RR Distro (for which I am extremely grateful) KNOW NOW that the only sound format that wor

Sound screws up in Linux

2005-11-05 Thread Mathewson
"Brown Cow" instead of hearing my growly voice saying "Brown Cow" (No rocket science round here - just English for 6 year-old Bulgarians) I heard something very like a cat being run over by a truck . . . Hard science: recorded the sound on a Mac using the Sound Studio program t

Re: A problem with sound in Linux

2002-11-11 Thread Alejandro Diaz Infante
so, playback seems to be even more finicky when it comes > to .au formatted sounds. I don't have any specific recipes for problems, > but apparently it is "unusual" to have a 16 bit, 22k .au file, and MC will > often not be able to handle it. > Thank you. I have the soun

Re: A problem with sound in Linux

2002-11-10 Thread Scott Rossi
> I've been noticing that in a good number of soundcards (including mine, a SB > Live! with OSS driver), using "play somesound.au" or "play audioclip > somesound.au" results a garbled audio output. There's nothing wrong with the > audio files, and I can even play them perfectly in a console or term

A problem with sound in Linux

2002-11-10 Thread Alejandro Diaz Infante
I've been noticing that in a good number of soundcards (including mine, a SB Live! with OSS driver), using "play somesound.au" or "play audioclip somesound.au" results a garbled audio output. There's nothing wrong with the audio files, and I can even play them perfectly in a console or terminal

Re: Sound

2002-10-06 Thread Ken Ray
ROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > >

Re: Sound

2002-10-06 Thread andu
--On Monday, October 07, 2002 11:19:27 +1300 Michael Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 so

Sound

2002-10-06 Thread Michael Crawford
Title: 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

Re: sound

2002-10-05 Thread andu
--On Saturday, October 05, 2002 21:51:21 -0700 erik hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > andu wrote: > I wish the archive had a search engine... > > === > > it does. I found that out eventually but... the link at the bottom of list mails, "http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Sound blues in Linux

2002-10-05 Thread Alejandro Diaz Infante
I noticed that in certain soundcards (including mine, a SB Live! with OSS driver), using "play somesound.au" or "play audioclip somesound.au" results a garbled audio output. There's nothing wrong with the audio files, and I can even play them perfectly in a console or terminal emulator, using "xa

Re: sound

2002-10-05 Thread erik hansen
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Re: sound

2002-10-05 Thread kweto
Sorry, can't advise about sound, but...   > I wish the archive had a search engine...   The archive_s_ do. These are the urls for the two archives I know of:   (new archive) http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.runrev.com/   (old archive) http://www.mail-archive.com/

Re: sound

2002-10-05 Thread andu
anks. > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?method=and&format=short&conf > ig=metacard_lists_runrev_com&restrict=&exclude=&words=record+playback > > Phil > > > - Original Message - > From: "andu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: sound

2002-10-05 Thread Phil Davis
ED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 1:38 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

sound

2002-10-05 Thread andu
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

play sound

2002-09-20 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Hello to all In some of my programs sounds (.au) are downloaded from a server, but the way it is scripted, a ".au" file is left permanently on the local harddisk (even though shifting contents for each new sound). The script lines (using DownloadNPlay and Updateme) are: if sta

Recording sound on Win32 w/o QuickTime

2002-09-12 Thread Thomas McCarthy
I've gotten a lot of ideas, examples and help from the list and I figure it's my turn to contribute something. I have a stack for recording .wav files on Win32 using MCIsendString (so you don't need Quicktime!) You can grab it here: http://perlingua.50megs.com/MCI_record.zip Cheers Tom McCa

Re: Sound Recording

2002-09-03 Thread Ray Horsley
on 9/2/02 1:04 PM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 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 >> MetaCar

Re: Sound Recording

2002-09-02 Thread Scott Raney
On Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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&

Re: Sound Recording

2002-09-02 Thread Shari
If you're trying to record from within Metacard, and it has to be from within Metacard, no ideas. If you're just trying to record to import into Metacard, I just use an empty stack, lauch ResEdit, open the sound resource, and record via ResEdit. It creates a sound resource that

Re: Sound Recording

2002-09-02 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
>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? No, nor have I. I've been told there is a bug in QuickTime (I have not tried the most r

Sound Recording

2002-09-02 Thread Thomas McCarthy
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? I still get irritating squeeks on my mac and grabled garbage on my windows. My workaround so far is t

Re: record sound bug

2001-12-13 Thread cowhead
> amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne wrote: > > On Mac I have found that the corresponding panel is called "Apple > Simple Sound Record Dialog", but I do not know how to open it from > within MC. I'm sure someone must have the right recipe, either using > "GURLGURL&

Re: record sound bug?

2001-12-13 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
>On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 10:03 AM, cowhead wrote: > >>There used to be a "send bug reports to." on this mailing >>list...but it seems to have disappeared. Anyway, back to the old >>"record sound" saga... >> >>It'

Re: record sound bug?

2001-12-12 Thread fuegox
On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 10:03 AM, cowhead wrote: > There used to be a "send bug reports to." on this mailing > list...but it seems to have disappeared. Anyway, back to the old > "record sound" saga... > > It's great that this has now

record sound bug?

2001-12-12 Thread cowhead
There used to be a "send bug reports to." on this mailing list...but it seems to have disappeared. Anyway, back to the old "record sound" saga... It's great that this has now been implemented in metacard (I've been forced to use weird combinations of superCa

Sound recording

2001-12-10 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
In case someone else did not know it (it took me quite some time to find it out), you can launch the sound recording panel on Windows with the following command: put word 1 to -2 of queryRegistry("hkey_classes_root\soundRec\shell\record\command\") into tRecorder launch tRecord

re: recording sound

2001-11-26 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
e platform = "win32" then set the rate to 44.100) As I have mentioned earlier I would also like to be able to launch the small built-in panel "Sound - sound recording" (if this is the name in English, I have just my Norwegian names). When I search for it, I just see 3 alias

re: recording sound

2001-11-22 Thread diskot123
>On Mac 8.5.1 I have been able to record my own voice with either >"ulaw", "ima4" or "mace 3:1" chosen in the dialog box and with 22.050 >khz (8 or 16 bits). On PC the same choices (all saved as >"mysound.mov") record only at half speed. If anyone has managed to >record on PC, please, send me

Re: Recording sound

2001-11-21 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
>On Tuesday, November 20, 2001, at 06:04 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: > >>Hello to all, >> >>Using MC2.4beta1 build 4 - >>I have struggled with Tuvias stack "RecordSound" from which I have taken: >> >> record sound lydfil with dialog >>

Re: Recording sound

2001-11-20 Thread fuegox
On Tuesday, November 20, 2001, at 06:04 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: > Hello to all, > > Using MC2.4beta1 build 4 - > I have struggled with Tuvias stack "RecordSound" from which I have > taken: > > record sound lydfil with dialog > put the seconds into n

Recording sound

2001-11-20 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Hello to all, Using MC2.4beta1 build 4 - I have struggled with Tuvias stack "RecordSound" from which I have taken: record sound lydfil with dialog put the seconds into nsecs repeat while recording is true wait for 0.20 seconds with messages set the thumbposition of

Sound recording on a Mac?

2001-07-16 Thread Dennie S Hoopingarner
I have managed to work around the half-speed playback of sounds recorded in Metacard (scrip to record "with dialog"). My question is this: is it possible to script the sample rate to 32 kHz instead of forcing the user to make the selection in the dialog box? I can't find any reference in the docu

record sound. MP3?

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Mitchell
I tried the 'record sound file' command in the new 2.4 beta, but the quality seems really bad, with no difference between 'good' , 'better' and 'best'. The quality is significantly lower than the lowest quality of the supercard record sound (6:1 comp, AIF

OT: Recording sound--quality issues

2001-06-21 Thread Sivakatirswami
We record a lot of sound and have used DAT tapes, but, in the interests of trying to simplify hardware configurations (decks, amps plugs, cords) and the time required to pass sound from DAT tapes to digital formats, (mpg) we are working to record directly into our MACs in many contexts. With this

Sound recording beta bug?

2001-06-13 Thread Michael Crawford
>Has anyone managed to get the recordsound stack or the record command >to work on a Macintosh, and if so, would they be willing to share >their experience? eg., "it just worked" or "here are the 8 steps I >needed to use" :-) Yup. It works fine. Well almost fine... * Don't use 8 bit recording a

RE: Sound recording beta bug?

2001-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> Hmmm... I tried that but get an error: > Warning: tools stack versiob (2.4B1) does not match engine version > (2.3), and typing in record "mysound" in the message box returns "no > permission to send that", "group: bad object type", "go: error in > background expression", and "move: bad end po

Re: Sound recording beta bug?

2001-06-12 Thread Mark
> >From: Mark Talluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Sound recording beta bug? > >You need to put the Mac 2.4 files in with your 2.3.2 files. They will >replace the current files of the same name. So, be careful when doing >this as you will delete your mctools st

Re: Sound recording beta bug?

2001-06-12 Thread andu
Mark wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I am currently playing around with the 2.4 beta, and have a couple of > questions regarding sound recording and unusual behaviour. > > I have been using Tuvias "recordsound" example stack to record sounds > with several settin

RE: Sound recording beta bug?

2001-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Or even better create two folders in your MetaCard folder. Stable and Latest. Then just put the 2.4 engine and tools in the latest folder and move the 2.3.2 engine and tools into the stable folder. You can now use the same Home and Help stacks for different versions. > > You need to put the Mac 2

Re: Sound recording beta bug?

2001-06-11 Thread Mark Talluto
You need to put the Mac 2.4 files in with your 2.3.2 files. They will replace the current files of the same name. So, be careful when doing this as you will delete your mctools stack as well as your engines from 2.3.2. Make backups if you need them later. This will make 2.4 work on your Ma

Sound recording beta bug?

2001-06-11 Thread Mark
Hi everyone. I am currently playing around with the 2.4 beta, and have a couple of questions regarding sound recording and unusual behaviour. I have been using Tuvias "recordsound" example stack to record sounds with several settings (including the default settings), but when I pla

recording sound

2001-06-05 Thread Mark
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: re: Sound recording? >Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 00:42:11 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >>I have seen a couple of posts that mention recording sounds in MC 2.4 >>beta, but on the

re: Sound recording?

2001-05-31 Thread diskot123
eg., I try "record sound x" and get errors about missing "(", bad >form, missing ",", bad parameters etc etc. >So, where can the 2.4 development environment be downloaded from? ftp://www.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.4 >I've also seen references to a

Sound recording?

2001-05-31 Thread Mark
ecord sound x" and get errors about missing "(", bad form, missing ",", bad parameters etc etc. So, where can the 2.4 development environment be downloaded from? I've also seen references to a recordsound.mc stack written by Tuviah - is this open source? And if s

Re: Record Sound

2001-04-12 Thread David Bovill
12 Apr 2001 09:12:52 -0700 (PDT) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Record Sound > > > The record sound command seems to record at 44 KHz. For internet > applications, maybe 11 KHz is suitable (to conserve space). Can we have an > 'average' and 'poor

Record Sound

2001-04-12 Thread Vikram Singh
The record sound command seems to record at 44 KHz. For internet applications, maybe 11 KHz is suitable (to conserve space). Can we have an 'average' and 'poor' option that gives options of 11 and 22 KHz recordings. Ideally, like qteffects, maybe there can be a 'recor

Re: Distorted QT sound playback

2000-12-07 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Hugh Senior wrote: > Playing sound or movies in QT from a CDROM can cause playback 'stuttering', > as if the system has to wait for the CDROM to catch up. Playing any multimedia from a CD can be problematic (burn speed has nothing to do with it since this simply refer

Re: Distorted QT sound playback

2000-12-07 Thread Hugh Senior
Apologies. I recently reported poor sound reproduction using QT. The problem has been located to an incorrect playback device setting in the MultiMedia properties control panel. However... Playing sound or movies in QT from a CDROM can cause playback 'stuttering', as if the system h

Distorted QT sound playback

2000-12-07 Thread Hugh Senior
Apart from suggesting users obtain the most up-to-date drivers, is there any specific, positive advice we can offer users for whose sound played by QuickTime (as midi, wave or movie soundtrack) is distorted or non-existant on win32 computers? Is there a list of 'good' or 'to be

Stopping Sound on Close Stack

2000-11-23 Thread Peter Reid
I'm trying to make sure that any currently playing sound is immediately terminated if a user clicks on a standalone app's close button under Windows NT. I have put handlers for "CloseStackRequest" and "CloseStack", both of which do "play stop". Howev