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Re: Surround WMA

Subject: Re: Surround WMA
From: Rob Danielson <>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:21:48 -0500
At 5:18 AM +0000 5/12/04, Greg Weddig wrote:
>For those of you who have the hardware I have posted a small Windows
>Media 9 file on my website that is a surround piece.  I would be
>interested in how well it plays back on other systems, mac/pc/IE/
>Netscape, etc.  You can let me know off-list so as not to tie up
>bandwidth and I'll post a report if anyone is interested.
>
>It is a simple "composed" piece using elements from different
>recordings.  It is intended mainly to test out this file format.  I
>have no relation to Microsoft.  The dawn chorus is at the NSS workshop
>last year and the water is a recording I did in Marin a few weeks ago.
>
>You will need a sound card that supports surround sound with more than
>2 speakers on it, though it should play back stereo as well.  One
>won't hear the rear channels.  An inexpensive sound card that deals
>with surround is the Creative Audigy series.
>
>Direct link to the file (2mb download, sorry maybe I 'll try to post a
>smaller version next week):
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~gweddig/surroundfile.wma
>
>...to the webpage:
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~gweddig/
>
>Thanks and enjoy,
>

Should be fun! The .wma  link is starting a text stream for me.  I'm 
not familar with this file type.  Are there separate .wav files or 
one AC3 or?  Rob D.

-- 
Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


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