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From: tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: 6.0.7 Sound Problems
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Date: 25 Oct 90 04:51:48 GMT
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I just installed 6.0.7 on my vanilla Mac II and seem to be having some
sound problems.  I had a "trumpet flourish" as a beep sound before I
installed 6.0.7, and afterwards it wouldn't play -- it caused a bomb every
time *any* program tried to beep.  The only sounds that didn't cause bombs
seemed to be the 4 standard beep sounds that come with the System.
FinderSounds worked okay, though.

Someone here on the net suggested copying sounds to new files using
Sound Mover 1.62, then reopening them using Suitcase II.  That worked; it
made them all playable as beep sounds again, including the trumpet flourish.
Why?  What was changed?

Then I noticed that in the card game Seahaven Towers, the shuffling sounds
are okay, but the "card flicking" sounds are now reduced to silence or just
quiet little pops that sound like those on a dirty record.  I tried
extracting all the sounds with ResEdit, copying them into a new resource
file with Sound Mover 1.62, then repasting them into the game, but that
didn't help.  In fact, it seemed to have changed some of the pops to
complete silence.  They didn't sound right when Sound Mover played them,
either.

Someone from Apple said that 6.0.7 uses the System 7.0 Sound Manager.
Does that mean some old sounds just won't play properly in 6.0.7?
Or is there a way to modify them so they'll still work? Is it just very
short sounds that are affected, or is it a problem with the code that
plays them, rather than a problem with the sounds themselves?
Or am I just hallucinating again?  Can someone shed some light on this?

  -- Tony

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