There are 4 basic ways to play sounds
1. playing embedded sound cast members
2. playing externally linked cast members
3. playing external files (which are not castmembers)
4. playing audio-only Quicktime movies
The answer depends on a few things, such as -
1. If you are using Director 8 and the new audio lingo (queueing, looping
within the sound file), then you need to import them as cast members
(whether as external or internal)
2. If the sound is long, and doesn't need to loop, then you can either play
the external file, or import them as externally linked files and play the
member
3. If the sound is short and looping (using the loop property of the member)
or needs to be triggered quickly , then import it as an internal sound
member (internal members load into ram, and hence loop better) - preferably
as an uncompressed .AIF or .WAV file
4. If you want to play the (non-looping) sound at different speeds or
backwards (etc), and don't want to use a 3rd party Xtra or MIDI or MOD, then
use quicktime.
5. If you have a lot of disk (especially slow CD-ROM) accessing whilst the
sound is playing, then sounds which are streamed from disk (such as
externally linked audio) may hiccup and burp if Director cannot get a steady
stream of data at a fast enough rate from the disk.
Assuming (since they are in mp3 format) that your sounds are long
non-looping sounds, and that you will not be a stressed by a short delay
before the sound starts playing (as it decompresses and preloads), then
either import them as externally linked castmembers or use a single dummy
castmember and change the filePath / URL of the member to the path of the
file that you want to play.
Luke
on 21/9/00 7:03 AM, Thiago Dell�Agnese at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Doubt about sound:
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> Which is the best way of importing a sound (mp3)?
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> To maintain a directory and to import the files of sound linked (link to
> external file)?
> To import the sound files usually (standard import)?
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> Or other suggestion?
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> Thank you very much
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