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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Sound Manager
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.191758.3314@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 3 Apr 91 07:17:58 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.160749.28551@ecmwf.co.uk> <50989@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <50989@apple.Apple.COM>, nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) writes:
> In article <1991Mar30.160749.28551@ecmwf.co.uk> mab@ecmwf.co.uk
> (Baudouin Raoult) writes:
>>
>> I try to use the Sound Manager to play sounds sampled with MacRecorder.
>> What I want is to play a *big* sound that does not fit in memory. I want
>> to read my sound file in several parts and send the data to a sound command
>> (using SoundCmd). Does anyone know how to do it ?
>
>   Upgrade to 6.0.7 or 7.0 (when we get the silly thing finished) and use
> _PlayFromDisk.

Sorry, I don't think this is going to work. Double-buffered asynchronous
continuous playback (how's that for a mouthful?) only works on machines
with an Apple Sound Chip.

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