[Reality] Sound/music in client

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

This all sounds good. I think another good thing to do might be to unify
the theme format between native and java versions of the faucet (this is
mostly the fault of the native version, but some changes would need to be
made on the java side too).

Anybody subscribed here know something about xp multimedia projects?

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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, James Knight wrote:

> Okay, I want to have a way to do sound and music in the Java client...for
> MacOS and Windows, I am implementing it in Quicktime for Java (which is a
> very very nice interface). Obviously for Unix systems, it will need to be
> implemented some other way, since Quicktime is not available.
> 
> Anyways, the featureset that I am thinking is necessary is as follows:
> - Ability to play at least the following formats: MIDI, MP3, WAV
> - Ability to specify the volume (e.g. as you approach a waterfall, it
> should get louder (now there's an interesting challenge for the game
> engine...how would we pull off a background/continuous sound in one room
> being audible in neighboring ones at decreased volume without specifying it
> directly))
> - Multiple channels of sound.
> - At least one channel of background sound/music which will loop endlessly
> until explicitly set to something else.
> - MAYBE the ability to stream sound/music off the web. Pre-downloading it
> and storing it locally is probably a better solution though.
> 
> What would make it REALLY COOL would be to have the following:
> - Ability to specify breakpoints in the music every 10 seconds or so where
> it would make sense musically to start playing a short transition piece
> which will lead into a new music track. That way its more like a continuous
> background music that changes depending on what's happening/where you are,
> which is much much cooler than having abrupt cutoffs when you move.
> 
> 
> Anyways, what does everyone think...once we get a featureset down, the
> server->client interface can be defined that supports all the features, and
> the platform specific implementations can be started.
> -James
> 
> PS: More thoughts re: the downloading stuff...it should probably have
> something like AOL (used to?), where you autodl the necessary files when
> you need them and then it stores them on your hard drive forever, unless
> the files change at which point it redownloads them. That would probably
> make sense for sound, themes, and (images if we ever have them).
> 
> --
> You are in a maze of testy little Java VMs, all subtly different.
> 
> 
> 
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