As Richard said:
> LC's Player control uses the host OS's playback engine, so as long as
> the OS-supplied media player can handle a format, LC should be able to
> as well.
For clarity, I would add that the mp3 files to be played could be included
with a standalone package on platforms like
> Richard wrote:
>
> I miss the simplicity of delivering true stand-alone apps, but with so
> many of the most lauded features of LC 8-and-later having been
> implemented as externals, adding some media files to the mix doesn't
> affect deployment options much.
I suppose one could store the
day, April 13, 2020 11:46 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Colin Holgate
Subject: Re: MP3s
I don’t know where it is now, probably lost, but I had a JVC quadraphonic 8
Track player. It could play regular 8 Track, which involved playing two tracks
on the first loop and the other two tracks on the s
I don’t know where it is now, probably lost, but I had a JVC quadraphonic 8
Track player. It could play regular 8 Track, which involved playing two tracks
on the first loop and the other two tracks on the second loop, or it could play
the four tracks in one loop. I only had a few tapes for it,
Graham Samuel wrote:
> Well, Richard, as usual you say something informative and useful!
>
> I didn’t know that LC could play a sound file in MP3 format.
LC's Player control uses the host OS's playback engine, so as long as
the OS-supplied media player can handle a format, LC should be able to
in the wrong place and then
>> complain they want their money back because your application doesn't work.
>>
>> This may be "old-fashioned", but so am I teaching kids how to program with
>> BBC computers from the 1980s;
>> doesn't mean it is a bad
kids how to program with
> BBC computers from the 1980s;
> doesn't mean it is a bad thing.
>
> And on Linux . . . what a shambles.
>
> Re MP3s /per se/: either LiveCode should be capable of embedding them, or,
> possibly by leveraging open source
> code, it should be able
Well, Richard, as usual you say something informative and useful!
I didn’t know that LC could play a sound file in MP3 format. I am in the odd
position of being a veteran of LC (and to some extent even Hypercard and
Supercard) and I have developed published apps; but despite my regular reading
a shambles.
Re MP3s /per se/: either LiveCode should be capable of embedding them,
or, possibly by leveraging open source
code, it should be able to read MP3 files and store the musical data
contained within them inwith stacks in some
format that can then be played . . .
The compression availab
Graham Samuel wrote:
> Still, subject closed - I presume the mother ship has long ago decided
> not to enhance LC in this respect any time soon.
Not at all. I noticed this thread got off on the tangent of codec
specifics, but never addressed your core question:
LiveCode can play all of
Lossy? Yes, like JPEG. And like JPEG, the format does very well indeed for a
huge variety of applications. I listen to MP3 music a lot, mostly classical,
and I don’t feel the lossy aspect is really taking away from the quality of
what I hear to any extent. Of course if the whole chain of
For AIFF and WAV the file size is affected by the sample rate, number of bits,
and number of channels. For MP3, only the data rate determines the file size.
> On Apr 12, 2020, at 12:32 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> On 4/12/20 11:07 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote:
>
>>
On 4/12/20 11:07 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote:
"Just for fun" I exported a sound file as WAV, AIFF and MP3 using Audacity"
WAV 36.9 MB
AIFF 36.9 MB
MP3 4.4 MB
which means that WAV and AIFF stink about 9 times more than MP3
For the record, mp3 is a lossy format while WAV and AIFF
You are not ignorant . . .
And the sound import stuff in LiveCode is donkey's years out of date.
"Just for fun" I exported a sound file as WAV, AIFF and MP3 using Audacity"
WAV 36.9 MB
AIFF 36.9 MB
MP3 4.4 MB
which means that WAV and AIFF stink about 9 times more than MP3
NWO: as
AIFF
On 12.04.20 20:09, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but Is there really no way to put an mp3 sound into a
stack as an audioclip and play it? Seems unlikely, but that’s what the
dictionary says. WAV, forsooth!
Graham
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