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Short: Plays 8/16bit WAV, AU, MAUD and AIFF.
Author: wenzel@unixserv.rz.fh-hannover.de
Uploader: wenzel@unixserv.rz.fh-hannover.de
Type: mus/play
-- Play16 version 1.1 - a versatile soundplayer for the Amiga --
Features in brief
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- autodetects and plays several soundfiles, up to 16 bit / 56 kHz / stereo
- correct playback speed, even for sounds >28 kHz
- plays mono sounds on *both* channels, not only on the left one
- plays files that are larger than memory
- fast uLaw decompression
- system friendly audio channel allocation
- supported Filetypes are:
* Microsoft RIFF-WAVE (.WAV) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear / uLaw
* Sun/NeXT Audio (.AU) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear / uLaw
* MacroSystem MAUD (.MAUD) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear
* Apple/SGI/Amiga AIFF (.AIFF) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear
What's new since V1.0?
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V1.1 - Oops! Play16 caused some Enforcer hits. Fixed that.
Thanks to Rod Schnell for reporting it.
- Added 'single'-option. Sound can be loaded completely into memory
before playing. No looping possible in this case yet!
- Playback time in minutes:seconds displayed if verbose >= 1
- uLaw decompression for WAVE-Files, using a decoding table
for maximum speed (didn't do much testing on it, hope it works!)
- MAUD filetype support (why do there have to be so many formats?)
- Sun/NeXT filetype support
Should also play 8 or 16 bit linear (hopefully)
Stereo playback may be distorted. Give it a try. :)
- AIFF filetype support
Note that the AIFF sounds saved with MacroSystem's MPro software
contain a corrupt ANNO chunk :-/
Play16 will detect this and play the file anyway.
- ctrl-c now stops playback immediately.
Thanks to Marc for some programming tips about that.