Re: CDR's & MP3 for GS???

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>    The question is: Does Oversampler recognize and output true stereo
>waveforms. The answer is clearly "no" (Supertimer suddenly went silent
>on this debate when I asked if he could point me to a example of an
>audio clip which would prove me wrong. I guess that means he concedes).

I didn't see your request because I stopped responding to
your flame followups.  This is the first time I saw it.  Ok, I'll
email you an audio clip in a bit.

>    They're two different programs, that's why. Oversampler is not
>merely a program that plays back waveforms, it plays a sample at
>the _same time_ it is being loading. This spooling process allows
>you to play waveforms much larger than your total free RAM space.
>
>    My guess is loading _and_ playing *two* independant audio
>channels at the same time (essentially two separate waveforms)
>is too taxing for the IIgs, so the author choose not to support
>stereo. In fact, I can't think of _any_ software that supports
>direct loading and playback of stereo waveforms other than the
>software AE included for their stereo cards.

Notice the sound control panel plays mono sounds out one
speaker only?  That's because there are stereo rSounds
and the sound control panel will support them.  Also, the
DiscQuest Encyclopedia CD-ROM has a stereo spooling
player built in.