On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Having a sound file player that plays any format makes Pd more flexible, leading to more new and unexpected uses. This is the strength of Pd: as few presumptions as possible. If you wanted to build a mp3 jukebox using Pd, for example, you'd need to play mp3s within Pd.
Not necessarilly. You could control an mp3 player from pd. Anyhow, just wanted to say that the format question is not the most important one regarding readsf~.
Guenter
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maybe it's just another stupid idea, that will be discussed once and never realized (like the marketplace / bounty system),
We just couldn't agree on the bounty system. I was against it and in favour of forming a non-profit organization. I wouldn't step back from my opinion without seeing a proposal for a proper model of the bounty system. Obviously copying the Gnome bounty thing can't possibly work, and we do not even have the information about how they do it internally.
Who takes the decisions ? How can we assure that this will be fair ? Who decides what gets implemented, how ?
So this is the problem. Someone would have to really think about it, which means a lot of work, just as the formation of an organization, or just like the setup of the CVS. I wouldn't volunteer for such a task anymore, you are free to do so. Just get a critical amount of developers on your side and make sure the others don't run away completely.
Guenter
but what about a plugin api for pd? the readsf/writesf players could be improved (maybe similarly written to thomas's sfplay) and an api could be designed that makes it possible to support all kinds of audio formats ... mp3, ogg, flac, speex, libsndfile, whatever you want ... this api could also be used for the soundfiler ...
just a stupid idea to save some work ... but it will only work if several developers _cooperate_ which will be the mayor problem :-(
just my 2� ... tim
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