Re: MIDIS Jukebox

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <1o82ecINN5il@gap.caltech.edu> nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:

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>Well, I was the one who posted this problem of not playing music over the net
>a few weeks ago on this newsgroup, and since then, I have done some sleuthing
>on my own. It is NOT a fault of the SoundSmith/Mod format that the music does
>not come out; instead it is the fault of the FTA's Tool219. Yes, the FTA
>has produced a number of great things, but others are lacking. The Tool219
>demo crashes with a error $0046 (file not found) error when run over 
>AppleShare. Thus, it is not a fault of the Music format, but simply bad calls
>to the operating system. Columns GS is intelligent enough apparently to say
>"so what" to the lack of music.

Very interesting information regarding tool219. As far as mods go my objections
are not based on networking, but on other things (which I dare not go into!).
 
Can tool 219 be "fixed" or replaced? I have run ModZap over Appletalk so I
realize that it's not mods causing the problem. Now, since I couldn't care
less if Soundsmith or NT ever worked over Appleshare, the more important
issue for me anyway would be to wonder why Columns GS, etc...require it to
play mods or whatever...Couldn't a player be used?
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>Other, more OS aware programs that use the Sound Hardware directly DO run fine
>over appleshare, even though they have nothing to do with MIDI. Dueltris uses
>a soundsmith music file and its own player; because it can find its music on
>the remote volume, it has no problem playing it. Other programs that directly
>access the sound hardware, such as SpyHunter GS, and commercial games like
>Silpheed run just fine, too.

Yes, now I guess the thing to ask is for Kenrick Mock, James, etc...to just
change VIAD and Columns GS to work along these lines. I haven't tested
Dueltris ...     
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>Thus, it is merely a fault of the music loader that the music does not play;
>MIDI may also have a decent loader that works (Personally, the few things I
>have for SynthLab are ok, but mainly that); dragging in the battle between a
>"industry standard" and the local format without checking out why is
>irrelevant to the question.

It would most certainly be nice to have a translator between standard midi
and Synthlab.
-- 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
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