Re: MP3 decoder?

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <19990819235340.09743.00001791@ng-fg1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> You never know.  They've ported a raytracing program to
> the IIGS after all, as well as a 3D modeling and animation
> program.  The basic idea is let the conversion take place
> overnight and retrieve the finished product tomorrow
> morning.  Or evening.  ;-)
Hm, that's POV-Ray, right? Well, I guess that's a good reason to own 2
IIgs's then...have one to simply slave for your acts of bandwidth...(Heh,
is there a morphing program out there for IIgs? Now that would be
nifty...oh, except there isn't really quicktime for IIgs...hmm.)

> Oh, no that's not what I mean.  I can easily listen to an MP3
> file in real time in Windows and download with FTP, edit
> photos, etc.  What slows Windows down is CONVERTING
> MP3's to waves because it needs to create a huge temporary
> file on disk.  ;-)
Ahhhh ok. Yeah, same here. Though on here I need to give it every scrap of
CPU time since it's only a LC040 and not a PPC.

> 
> I should be getting a kick butt Mac emulator for my PC soon,
> btw, after I put a faster CPU chip in it.
Heh, well, as I say about most every emulator, there is no real
replacement for the real thing. Granted, some emulators are very nice, but
there aren't that many. (The only emulator I can think of offhand that
actually improves on the machine rather than being buggy, incomplete, and
not really that functional is Bernie, and no I'm not trying to get a
cookie because the Bernie guys visit here, it's just true. So many
emulators are like 'well, we'll add this...later...and right now you need
to bend over backwards to get it configured right. Oh and by the way, most
programs don't work' And even then you miss out on a lot of the fun of a
real IIgs...adding in random cards of glee...having your monitor short out
on you...trying to troubleshoot your smartport chain...wait...hmmm...but
still, there's so much out there that isn't  even touched upon by
emulation. And last time I checked, the mac emulators weren't very
impressive. They may load, and run and such, but they were by no means
complete. But, perhaps there is one now. I am not much of a PC user except
at school...but then, I'm also the only person at school who boots up the
IIe over in the corner from time to time..Which has a Apple UDC card and
CP/M card in it...man do I wish I could convince them to let me have
that...if it's not gone by the time I get back this semester <sigh>

> 
> Too bad.  In actuality, the conversions, when listened to on
> the IIGS with proper speakers, are actually quite faithful to
> the original MP3s.
Well, true, but I think of it this way...in order for me to enjoy them on
the mac, I need only download and listen. For the IIgs, I must download,
convert to that format it expects, copy it to a zip disk, unplug my zip
drive, take it into the next room, hook it up to the IIgs, boot up, copy
the file to my hard drive (if I want to do that, or just leave it on the
disk), and then listen to it. And it will essentially be the same sound
I'm listening to in the end. Now, if I was spending more time on the IIgs,
perhaps. And maybe sometime if I want to impress some friends...but then
most of my friends believe that I should just 'trash all of that old crap'

> For the record, Oversampler on the IIGS does not take
> AIFFs.  They take a type of WAV file.  Specifically, 8-bit
> unsigned.  I think AIFFs are always signed (not sure).
> Waves can be signed or unsigned.  Oversamply takes the
> unsigned ones.
Hm. I'm not exactly sure what signing is, sorry. Is it like the byte-order
endian encoding that some of the sound formats have within them? (Try
playing a big-endian AIFF file in a program expecting a little-endian
format, under windows, and watch the glee. I think the program that did
that was Goldwave, though I'm not sure...