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From: Paul.Heller@f421.n109.z1.Fidonet.Org (Paul Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Playing Long Sounds in Hypercard
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Date: 17 Apr 91 05:12:35 GMT
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EN> A sound resource in Hypercard can only be 32K same as a field size.  
EN> However, the other night I saw an Apple salesman demonstrating a multi
EN> stack that  had long sounds.  
 
EN> I ask him how he overcame the 32K barrier and his response was that he
EN> wasn't aware there was that barrier.  
 
I don't think there is a 32K limit on resources - you can have PICT
resources that are several hundred K & display them via the PICTURE
xcmd, and I've had no problems recording & playing long sound segments
via the Farallon MacRecorder XCMDs other than total memory.  I've
created some multi-megabyte sound samples, and they work fine.
 
You may want to break long sound segments into smaller pieces anyway, 
though, since large sound resources take a noticeable moment to load
into memory.  If you string together a bunch of small sound resources,
playing one after the next, they'll pay seamlessly and you won't get
any pauses from disk-reading.

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