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- From: adunn@fnalo.fnal.gov
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: What is the point of .playscore format?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.031119.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 09:11:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec25.235230.27663@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
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- In article <1992Dec25.235230.27663@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:
- >
- > What is the purpose of the .playscore format? I had figured this would be
- > because of the "size", but look:
- >
- > -rw-rw-r-- 1 fermat 43777 Dec 25 18:44 Invention-12.playscore
- > -rw-rw-r-- 1 fermat 4669 Dec 25 18:43 Invention-12.playscore.Z
- > -rw-rw-r-- 1 fermat 61222 Dec 25 18:43 Invention-12.score
- > -rw-rw-r-- 1 fermat 7243 Dec 25 18:42 Invention-12.score.Z
- >
- > Sure, it is smaller than the .score file, but look at how nice a job
- > "compress" does with it? (lha and zip do an even better job) The
- > compressed .score file is much much smaller than the .playscore file. The
- > time it takes playscore to read in either the .score or .playscore files
- > seems very nearly the same. So I can't believe it is to speed things up.
- >
- > Anyone know? Why not just compress them, and pipe through zcat when you
- > want to read it?
- >
- > Michael
- > fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (NeXTMail ok)
-
- The playscore format is a "pre-digested" version of a score file. Since it is
- a lower-level description of the music, it can be plated more reliably,
- temporally speaking. It is mainly useful when the score is complicated and the
- DSP might not be able to process it in real time.
-
- See the man pages for playscore for more info on such things.
-
- _andy
- adunn@fnal.fnal.gov
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