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- Short: Plays 8/16bit 8SVX, WAV, AU, MAUD and AIFF.
- Type: mus/play
- Uploader: wenzel@unixserv.rz.fh-hannover.de
- Author: wenzel@unixserv.rz.fh-hannover.de
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- -- Play16 version 1.2 - a versatile soundplayer for the Amiga --
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- Features in brief
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- - autodetects and plays several soundfiles, up to 16 bit / 56 kHz / stereo
- - always correct playback speed, even for sounds >28 kHz
- - plays mono sounds on *both* channels, not only on the left one
- - plays files that are larger than memory
- - preloading for exactly timed start of playback
- - fast uLaw decompression
- - system friendly audio channel allocation
- - supported Filetypes are:
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- * Microsoft RIFF-WAVE (.WAV) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear / uLaw
- * Sun/NeXT Audio (.AU) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear / uLaw
- * MacroSystem MAUD (.MAUD) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear
- * Apple/SGI/Amiga AIFF (.AIFF) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear
- * Amiga IFF-8SVX (.IFF) mono / stereo, 8 bit, linear
- * Any raw sound data as long as it matches one of the following:
- - 8 bit signed
- - 8 bit unsigned
- - 16 bit signed, Intel format (LSB first)
- - 16 bit signed, Motorola format (MSB first)
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- What's new since V1.0?
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- V1.1 - Oops! Play16 caused some Enforcer hits. Fixed that.
- Thanks to Rod Schnell for reporting it.
- - Added 'single'-option. Sound can be loaded completely into memory
- before playing. No looping possible in this case yet!
- - Playback time in minutes:seconds displayed if verbose >= 1
- - uLaw decompression for WAVE-Files, using a decoding table
- for maximum speed (didn't do much testing on it, hope it works!)
- - MAUD filetype support (why do there have to be so many formats?)
- - Sun/NeXT filetype support
- Should also play 8 or 16 bit linear (hopefully)
- Stereo playback may be distorted. Give it a try. :)
- - AIFF filetype support
- Note that the AIFF sounds saved with MacroSystem's MPro software
- contain a corrupt ANNO chunk :-/
- Play16 will detect this and play the file anyway.
- - ctrl-c now stops playback immediately.
- Thanks to Marc for some programming tips about that.
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- V1.2 - IFF-8SVX filetype support (only uncompressed files!)
- - RAW data support: _Any_ data can be played
- - Preload feature added
- - Fixed a bug that caused illegal memory access (hopefully)
- Thanks to Ignatios Souvatzis for reporting it.
- - Improved chunk handling
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