Thank you Marty.
Doug Von Gausig feels the same way. He doesn't want to load Quicktime
because it takes over many suffixes and causes him headaches. However,
neither of you is a "normal" user. I think that most new PCs already have
quicktime installed because .mov soundfiles are very common on the internet,
mostly in the form of video files.
The idea of presenting a short mp3 "sample" that is easily downloadable may
in fact be the best way to go.
I await further comments.
Lang
At 02:19 PM 3/13/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>I understand what you wish to do but remember that there is no
>security system that works for sound no matter what you do.
>
> >From the poor boy holding the tape recorder up to the speaker to
>someone like me who can route the playback output to a separate input
>digitally within the DSP, there is no real protection. You can slow
>me down to the level of having to type my own file names and force me
>to clip edit the start and stop points. But that is about all.
>
>You may stop a few people, and that might make it worth it for you.
>
>Rich
Dear Lang:
I get the correct message when I go to your URL - it asked me to install
Quick-time, and I do not. But let me give you some background.
When I right-click any WAV file on my computer I get a list of five
alternative pieces of software, of which I installed exactly one, that
purport to open or play it. I only ever use one of them. I have NO desire
to add any more alternatives - my computer is too important to my sound
work to mess any more with the installed sound system, as install program
habitually and aggressively often do.
The last time I tried it was about two years ago, and REAL took over
everything. I had to take it to a shop to uninstall and be able resume my
daily work. I had pop-up ads added to almost everything that related to
webs or the Internet. I warned the nature recordists group at the time that
REAL was a very aggressive company. This warning was later re-posted again
and again as other persons found it out for themselves.
Most of us, starting with Doug and myself, use the superb control over
quality and file size that MP3 creation provides to make samples available
on the web that are both small and of somewhat lower but adequate
quality. This seems a reasonable compromise - we retain control over the
better quality uncompressed PCM originals, and the web visitor gets an idea
of what we are providing - sort of like listening to a sample of music over
the AM radio or the telephone, except better.
I also strongly suggest you use MP3s. I have read all the arguments so far
posted, and have no intention of getting Quick time working on my computer,
for better or for worse.
sending my best,
Marty Michener
Hollis, NH
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