>________________________________ > From: Björn Eriksson <[email protected]> >To: Pd - list <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 5:21 AM >Subject: Re: [PD] mp3 (layerII) or .wav/.aif stereo player! >
[...] > >Soundwise we all know wave and aiff sounds better, but I am a bit surprised >this seems to be a so complicated and sensitive issue about having pd play a >compressed sound file with some ease. Maybe this has been discussed over the >years over and over,so forgive me if this already stated somewhere about these >things. Sound quality has absolutely nothing to do with it. If there was a piano that sounded and played like a Steinway 9-foot grand but was 1/5 the price, would you really take a Steinway salesman seriously if he countered that the highest octave sounds slightly different when you put your ear directly above the strings?[1] Curious about [readanysf~] and gmerlin-- I thought you had to pay royalties to do mp3 encoding/decoding. Am I wrong on that? Hans-- if [readanysf~] could compile on Windows would it be possible to include it in Pd-Extended? Or are there patent issues that keep it from being included? (If so, how does gmerlin get around them?) -Jonathan [1] Analogy is good for any use of Pd that merely plays back a soundfile and/or attenuates the signal, for which there are many, especially for newcomers (random shuffle, alarm clock, build your own Furby with Raspberry Pi, etc.) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
