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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Music Coverter Program (like IFFtoC)?
Message-ID: <5461@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 27 Mar 90 05:46:19 GMT
References: <956@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu>
Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <956@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (scott sutherland) writes:
>	Okay, here's a question I have not seen asked before.  There 
>are a number of programs out there in the public domain which will
>take an IFF image file and generate C code for it if I want to incorporate
>it into my programs.  Is there a similar thing for SMUS scores?  

Haven't seen one, haven't written one.  I did let Peter da Silva badger me,
three years or so back, into writing code to convert 8SVX sample files to C,  
and his Workbench Lander made use of that.  

However, I gave it up as tedious and pointless because all it gets you is the
ability to have your sounds linked into your code (i.e. a one-file application),
as opposed to having separate files, and it costs you dramatically increased
link times plus making it harder to change sounds.

It would be worse with SMUS, because then you'd have to link in your samples,
your songs and a SMUS player.  Much nicer, in my opinion, to just link in
enough code to talk to a SMUS player.  This is the approach taken in our
Commercial SMUS Player.
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