Hi Dave, Hi Eric,

thanks for the pointers. First, I don't know whether we want to have every image automatically download a file when you open Objectland, and because it should be easily explorable, I would not like to make an extra button "Click here to download a sound file" for it. If we decide we can make automatical downloads, Eric, can we upload any CC-free audio file to Wikimedia Commons and be sure it will never be deleted, or do we use any song that is already there?

This takes about 3 seconds for a 30 seconds wave file on my machine:

SampledSound fromWaveStream: (HTTPSocket httpGet: 'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Bach_Brandenburg_4_coda_to_the_3rd_movement.wav')

Opening Objectland should not be terribly slow ... Hm, maybe we should just use the existing bachFugue sound, but I wanted to demonstrate Squeak's capability of playing wave files beside midi files, too ...

Best,

Christoph

Von: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Eric Gade <eric.gade@gmail.com>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. September 2020 23:06:02
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Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] The Inbox: Sound-ct.70.mcz

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 4:36 PM David T. Lewis <lewis@mail.msen.com> wrote:

Maybe someone can suggest a good strategy for handling this? We don't
want to start adding 7MB sound files to the image, and we know from
long experience that web links tend to go stale in embarassing ways.

How about some audio from the Wikimedia Commons? It's unlikely the URLs would go stale for those.

Eric