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Jan 12, 2001, 10:58am

See, this is yet another example of Roland's ineptness. I mentioned MPEG3-encoded WAVs were possible in AW perhaps around at LEAST a YEAR or so ago. This twit doesn't deserve to be programming AW! He's so out of touch with what's possible with it.

[View Quote] > Is this really a Windows 95 issue, or something else?
>
> I was not even aware until today that you could encode a WAV file in MP3
> format and use it in AW 3.0. In fact, you can't, at least not on my machine
> (not in 3.0 or 3.1). But apparently this does work on some other systems.
> If it does, something within the OS itself must be figuring out that the WAV
> is not PCM but some other encoding instead and switching to that codec
> automatically, all without AW's knowledge. There must be some piece of
> software that you need installed on your PC for this to work. Perhaps a
> particular version of Windows Media Player or something like that.
>
> AW 3.1, as you know, uses a totally different sound playback system from
> 3.0. A .wav file is passed to DirectSound as just that...PCM encoded WAV
> data. If it is actually encoded as something else, it's not going to work,
> and wasn't intended to work. I'm not sure what to do about this, I'm not
> sure if it's possible or not to support multiple different WAV encoding
> schemes in DirectSound.
>
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