Thad Ward wrote:
<snip>
> > No one on windoze has any idea what .ogg is, and finding programs to
> > play and create it is even more remote.
>
> pish-posh. www.vorbis.com has the tools to create, and also plugins
> (or links to plugins or players with support) for playback.
I already found out (in the channel) that what I said was
misinterpretted because I said it badly, rephrasing that:
No windoze mp3 luser has any idea what .ogg is, nor do *they* know where
to find programs for it.
> tracked music can be a horrendous load on memory and the cpu. I agree that
> it would be cool to have, but it would run the risk of lowering framerates,
> on some setups getting down into the unacceptable range. of course, there
> could be an option for turning it off...
Tracker music was created when disk space was measured in low double
digit megabytes or more commonly measured in floppy disks, and space was
thus quite a problem, it was also created in the presence of Amiga
hardware audio playback which made it 2% or less CPU use at potentially
better than CD quality - the playback for any channel was limited to
28.8khz 8bit, but mixing hardware was analogue and could adapt to any
speed alignments, something not possible when sampling to a specific
frequency below the timing chip itself (which was 3.5mhz in that case),
which is one reason that Amiga emulators such as UAE don't sound quite
as good as the real thing.
Space is less of a problem than software mixing complex tracker music
now. (software mixing that many channels at high quality with
constantly changing pitch and volume and other effects is rather
painful)
> --
> Thad Ward
>
> <Marticus> There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
>
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