> In the midst of porting a win stack to mac, I
accidentally discovered
> that my mac can play some of the original stack's wav
files.
Yup. I make my stacks on a Mac, but use .wavs for all
my sounds (if I ever do decide to port the project to
windows) .
> Specifically, wav files called up by the player object
sound fine,
> whereas files called up by the play command sound like
nails on a
> blackboard.
QuickTime on Mac (2.5, maybe even 2.0, and later) plays
wav files nicely. I think the "play" command should
play wav files, too... but if they're encoded strangely
at all, it will just play static. Compressed wav files
won't play... at least of one compression... someone
else knows more about this than me, let them talk! :)
>I'm surprised by this difference since I
thought wav was Win
> specific (I double checked that the files were indeed
wav).
>
> Is there something about the nature of the player
object I don't know
> about (quicktime, perhaps)? It'd be nice to know I can
rely on this
> behaviour re-occuring on any mac machine and thus
avoid having to
> convert all my wav files to au!
Every Mac with QuickTime installed will be able to play
your wav files (when called with the player or
playmovie(is that it?) command). Aiff, wavs, and lots
of other sounds will all work fine.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Nicolas R Cueto
> Takakura JHS/SHS
> Nagoya, Japan
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