[PD] mp3 (layerII) or .wav/.aif stereo player!

[Björn Eriksson]

If you´re having an extremely boring saturday evening/night or sunday
morning you can watch this video directly from Fraunhofer institute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdRdTQVBxi4&blend=5&lr=1&ob=5

/Björn

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Òscar Martínez Carmona
<xamps23 at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's not *that* coplicated really, and many options have been suggested,
> guess the 'sensitive' thing is that OP ended his original message with:
>
>
> "Anyways I'll be happy too if I can play an not compressed audio file like
> an  .aiff or .wav but in stereo? how the f*ck I do that?"
>
> Which is not probably not the best way to find concrete advice on a list :)
>
> I agree! By the way, that was my first post to the list, the whole thread
> has been interesting thought!
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 23/11/12 11:21, Björn Eriksson wrote:
>>
>>> I think one of the reason one might have to be able to play mp3´s or
>>> ogg´s from inside a pd-patch can be that you´re working with some
>>> interactivity, thematic project for instance where one is sniffing the web
>>> for sounds.
>>>
>>> I regard mp3´s as usual as for instance jpg´s are on the web, speaking
>>> of some image analogy of compressed formats. I don´t like the licencing of
>>> mp3 though and would prefer ogg to be the main standard.
>>>
>>> Sometimes there aren´t time enough to do conversions on the fly to
>>> uncompressed formats before importing files onto pd.
>>>
>>> I can with other words imaging a number of situations which could call
>>> for a a playability of mp3 and oggs.
>>>
>>
>> Obviously, there are cases where mp3 can be an option, but OP mentioned
>> exporting from logic. Of course withot further background it's hard to
>> tell, and there are many cases.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Soundwise we all know wave and aiff sounds better, but I am a bit
>>> surprised this seems to be a so complicated and sensitive issue about
>>> having pd play a compressed sound file with some ease. Maybe this has been
>>> discussed over the years over and over,so forgive me if this already stated
>>> somewhere about these things.
>>>
>>
>> It's not *that* coplicated really, and many options have been suggested,
>> guess the 'sensitive' thing is that OP ended his original message with:
>>
>>
>> "Anyways I'll be happy too if I can play an not compressed audio file
>> like an  .aiff or .wav but in stereo? how the f*ck I do that?"
>>
>> Which is not probably not the best way to find concrete advice on a list
>> :)
>>
>> Lorenzo.
>>
>>
>>> /Björn Eriksson
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Lorenzo Sutton <
>>> lorenzofsutton at gmail.com <mailto:lorenzofsutton at gmail.**com<lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 20/11/12 19:04, Òscar Martínez Carmona wrote:
>>>
>>>         [readsf~] seems to be what I was looking for!
>>>         I'm not sure about mp3 layers and names , but when that layer
>>>         II file is what I get with an mp3 bounce with Logic...
>>>
>>>
>>>     Why should you export to mp* from logic? That sounds rather insane
>>>     unless you *need* mp*
>>>
>>>     mp* are lossy compressed, and unless you have a precise
>>>     'aesthetic' reason to having mpeg-degraded audio quality simply
>>>     export to a lossless format.
>>>
>>>     That said there are probably thousands of converters out there
>>>     from-to mp* to anything, google is your friend there.
>>>
>>>     Lorenzo.
>>>
>>>         Thank you both!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM, chris clepper
>>>         <cgclepper at gmail.com <mailto:cgclepper at gmail.com>
>>>         <mailto:cgclepper at gmail.com <mailto:cgclepper at gmail.com>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             A MPEG-1 LAyer II file is MP2 not MP3.  You will need to
>>>         find a
>>>             player/converter for that.  Maybe VLC?
>>>
>>>             There are multiple ways to play .wav files with Pd - check
>>> the
>>>             example patches included with it.
>>>
>>>             On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Òscar Martínez Carmona
>>>             <xamps23 at gmail.com <mailto:xamps23 at gmail.com>
>>>         <mailto:xamps23 at gmail.com <mailto:xamps23 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                 Hi List!
>>>                 I'm trying to play an mp3 layerII file with [mp3play~]
>>>         ans it
>>>                 does only support layer III files. While I'm looking
>>>         for the
>>>                 appropiate converter (fail at that by now) I was
>>>         wondering if
>>>                 there was another external able to play layer II files
>>>         (the
>>>                 most common type, not?).
>>>                 Anyways I'll be happy too if I can play an not compressed
>>>                 audio file like an  .aiff or .wav but in stereo? how
>>>         the f*ck
>>>                 I do that?
>>>                 Thanx!
>>>
>>>                 --         Òscar Martínez Carmona
>>>
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