At 20:55 2000-07-19 -0800, you wrote:
> >Both HyperCard and SuperCard on the Macintoish allow up to 20 sounds
> >to be queued for continuous playback by the execution of a sequence
> >of 'play' commands. As soon as all of the sounds have been loaded
> >into memory (a fraction of a second on newer cpu's), control is
> >returned to the handler. The sounds are then played end to end,
> >seamlessly, while other commands or events are processed.
> >
> >When I try the same thing in MetaCard, each new play commands
> >interrupts playback of the previous sound. Is there any way to queue
> >a series of sounds in MetaCard, or to achieve the same result, as
> >I've often done with HyperCard and MetaCard?
>
>It's gratifying to see someone else working with audio...
>
>You can't do the above in MC. What you *might* be able to do is use the
>player object to play audio files and poll the player object for when it
>finishes playing a file and the start the next. My guess is, there will
>probably be some gap audible between the end of the first clip and the
>beginning of the next (never tried this myself). Note this requires
>QuickTime be installed on the user's machine.
>
>Another option you could try is to use an audio external (Mac).
>SNDChannel works just as well in MC as it does in HC/SC, but I don't know
>how successful you'll be at stacking sounds for seamless playback.
>
>Your last option is to pester Scott and the MC folks for better built-in
>audio support. I've been trying for months now (if not years), but their
>response is that better audio support is not high on the requested
>feature list.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>
>____________________________________________________________________
>Scott Rossi Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
>Creative Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using several small sounds randomly played in "the background".
Whenever another sound (besides the ones below) has to be played the
"background sound" must be stopped first. Here is a script (which
originally was written by someone else if I remember correctly). It's
placed in the stack script.
on playStopped
---- first checking if other sounds are on ----
if the uSnd of this stack is empty then
exit playstopped
else
send "AgainSnd" to me in 1 second
end if
end playstopped
on AgainSnd
if the sound is "done" then --- this line may seem unessesary but I've
found it works better with it ----
put "BgSnd13,BgSnd14,BgSnd3,BgSnd4,BgSnd16," &\
"BgSnd7,BgSnd6,BgSnd12," into gSnd
play ((item (random(8)) of gSnd))
end if
end AgainSnd
Eva
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