Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!dan From: dan@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Baker CATS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 131072 is the Sound Barrier? Message-ID: <6811@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 10 May 89 16:26:42 GMT References: <8905100534.AA09678@jade.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: dan@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Baker CATS) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 12 In article <8905100534.AA09678@jade.berkeley.edu> writes: >Why is the maximum length of a sound 131072??? (as stated in the >AutoDocs for the Audio Device with CMD_WRITE). If I had 1Meg of >chip memory (well I can dream can't I), I might want to play a >sound that is 1Meg long (or there abouts). You can play samples that are longer than 131072 bytes long by queuing up multiple requests to the audio device. Use a Wait() GetMsg() loop to keep the sample running smoothly. You can do this with just two IOAudio structures by alternating them. -- Dan Baker, CATS