I just tried this - that's pretty darn cool. Also, it seems that by
simply clicking on the Sound icon does not work with Action Sound
Effects unchecked in Sound prefs. As for the extra controls, if we
could find any developers who are interested in adding the same to
Newton Movie Player, we could just tweak the code to allow it to work in
audio as well.
Brad Tober
On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 10:04 AM, Mark Rollins wrote:
>
> I just found the best way to work with MP3 files; part of this was
> written up before.
>
> I had mentioned that I use SoundIconMaker to convert MP3s to Newton
> sound icons. (MP3 (using QuickTime pro) -> 8bit mono AIFF -> Newt
> sound). These make neat startup & shutdown sounds using "Sunrise", but
> the sound icons are not playable when tapped on the Newts screen.
>
> I found that if you load a converted MP3 file, and want to have it play
> as a startup sound in Sunrise, when you choose the sound in Sunrise's
> prefs, the sound plays as a preview.
>
> And play it does. I can make a new note, scroll a note, delete a note,
> open the Extras drawer, In/Out box and names file, and the sound plays
> without skipping, stuttering or dropping out. Even handwriting
> recognition does not seem to be affected at all. I have tried this with
> "Springtime for Hitler" and a few other tunes.
>
> The only thing to be careful of is to turn off "action sound effects"
> and "pen sound effects" in the Sound preferences.
>
> What's missing of course is a FF/REW method, and to stop the sound
> playback you've got to power off the Newt. But wow!
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