"The thing that is really annoying, really frustrating, is that the community that I am trying to serve (which includes me) keeps shooting itself in the foot, incessantly, year after year, by arguing over the same details, over and over and over." ED, Sunday.
At the risk of another abortive cycle. We seem to have: Richard Dobson's *.amb Widely used, widely accepted. Problematic as order number increases. Has the underlying *.wav problems (and advantages). Etienne Deleflie's 'UA' I had thought this had been dropped in favour of the fourth of these, so have rather taken my 'eye off the ball'. Perhaps Etienne could comment (he is one of the author's of the fourth). The Graz Proposal of 2009. This fell on stoney ground ;-(> It was CAF based, and we did have promises of a 'CafPak' from the 'WavPak' development team. <http://mchapman.com/amb/reprints/AFF> The Kenticky Proposal of 2010. The current situation is: a library available at <http://iem.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=iem/ambix;a=summary> and the unofficial documentation at <http://iem.at/~zmoelnig/libambix/ambix_8h.html> I'll happily put up a webpage with URLs / links to them all (and any others). Even try a Wikipedia type table of 'what does/offers what' (if the authors will assist). (And genericlly these re not 'file format's so much as 'interchange formats' (files, streams, ... .) Once we've got the facts straight perhaps we could recommence on a solid basis ?? __________________ A couple of comments in the meantime: OPERATING SYSTEMS: I remember going into an office some decades ago and being greeted by "Have you seen what's in the paper about the Soviet Union?". To which I gave a bored reply of "Nothing we didn't know already." The wiser man replied "It's not what they are saying, it is who is saying it." I have always read 'news' stories differently since then. So was surprised by the 'main stream' comments on Microsoft's tablet/OS. Anyone remember 'Internet Explorer' ? 'Windows' ... ??? Anyway regardless of the fate of M$, nowadays I regaularly use at least two OSs. Depends what's better for what. It is easy to boot a Linux off a USB key, off a CD, or dual boot off a HD. I am not convinced OS remains a big argument for desktop / laptop machines. 'Mobile devices' are perhaps the issue that will be the big one. B-FORMAT: As far as I am concerned A-format is a microphone feed. C is any of the flavours of UHJ. D is loudspeaker (etc.) feeds. A does not specify what sort of mic. D does not specify how many LSs or in what configuration. Likewise B is an encoded format (produced from A or 'composed'). It may be any order (or 'mixed' order). It may be Furse-Malham, but may not be. The term is generic. I say all this as some comments seem to imply B-format is *.amb- Whilst *.amb is B-format I would not agree with the reverse. (Nor, if I read it correctly one comment that seemed to mply B-format is first order ..) Michael _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
