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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: AIFF-C Compression Details
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.110802.13374@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:08:02 +1300
- References: <1993Jan19.043049.22997@ast.saic.com> <1993Jan19.080743.21743@tc.cornell.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1993Jan19.080743.21743@tc.cornell.edu>, eacj@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Julian Vrieslander) writes:
- > And what happened to the MACE package? I cannot find any reference to it
- > in my latest copy of the APDA catalog. Is Apple still licensing this code?
- > Does it work on 16-bit samples? Or is MACE the same as the system-level
- > routines described in IM VI?
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- MACE support was rolled into the enhanced Sound Manager that first appeared
- in System 6.0.6/6.0.7. You no longer need to make low-level SndControl calls
- to special "snth" resources (I'm not sure if these are still supported);
- instead, you use new Sound Manager calls.
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- As far as I'm aware, MACE compression still only works with 8-bit samples.
- And not only is it a lossy algorithm, but the loss in quality is quite audible.
- It's recommended mainly for speech applications.
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