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From: jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: SoundSmith
Message-ID: <18779@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 90 21:05:14 GMT
References: <90Jan20.124125est.57438@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> <8Zi=wlm00VA_0380oC@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon)
Organization: Houston Public Access
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Several people have been asking for more music to play on SoundSmith.
There are five song DISKS (full 3.5" disks) available on America Online.
Each disk is crammed as much as possible with lots of insturments and
songs you can probably recognize from the "top 40" radio stations.

It would require quite a bit of effort to binscii these things and put
them on the binaries, however, and it would also cost quite a bit of money
to distribute it to all these machines.  I am not sure if it would be
considered "proper" to upload such huge files to the net.

To give you an example, the average download time @ 2400 baud for ONE
of the disks is about 40 minutes.  Binscii will make it 25% larger (it
converts 8 bits into 6 bits).  I'm sure it took most of you a good
amount of time just grabbing SoundSmith from the binaries and unpacking
that.

It took me much longer to pack it up and send it to the binaries.

Anyway, the song disks are pretty good and if you can get them from America
Online, I suggest you can.  At about $3 a disk, 2400 baud, that's not bad.

Jeff
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