Would be great to have some tracks that sound like the ones that came off some of the MSX and Amiga computers... genuine chiptunes but with more interesting tones than just NES style. Plus, there's always the GYM synth chips that were used the the Sega Megadrive/Genesis which do also count as chiptunes... ;)
For a phrase, something along the lines of "Support non-patented formats, use OGG or FLAC!" could suffice.
As far as consumers, VLC, MPC, WinAMP and Windows Media Player with codecs are all capable of playing both of these formats. For those who would say that "Well users don't want to have to install codecs!"... perhaps not. But they already do for video files (for Windows at least a common one is the CCCP). Is it really that much more difficult to install an audio codec or two? Keep in mind that these audio codecs are mostly for those users who use WMP exclusively.
Perhaps not, but those programs can at least do a mix-down to a raw, uncompressed lossless format like WAV, which can then be converted by Audacity. I can accept that it's a potential pain to have to save with one program, open it with another, and then save it again in the desired format.
A simple solution is Audacity. I know I keep mentioning it but it's the only one I really know for Windows that works well and imports/exports multiple formats including OGG and FLAC.
Players include WinAMP (which reads all of them) and there are codecs for Windows Media Player for the average consumer.
I wouldn't suggest something as intrusive as auto-conversion, especially MP3 -> OGG (decode into non-compresses, encode into compressed throwing away other data... leads to crappy audio quality)... but I think a note encouraging the use of patent-free formats is reasonable. Of course, I'm not an admin, but I make the suggestion in an effort to help improve the goals of OGA.
Perhaps, but I don't think "Well, OGG/FLAC isn't widely supported yet." is a good reason. PNG for the longest time wasn't widely supported but people kept using it, it gained popularity and now it's a standard. WebP will likely follow suit as a replacement for JPEG as a lossy format.
Plus, every major editor can export or mix down to WAV or some other raw format... that's where software like Audacity (and other similar, freely available tools) come into play to encode OGG files. Plus, a lot of current MP3 players do, in fact, support OGG.
It would seem that a lot of others agree with me on this point... so I'm wondering if we should consider public encouragment of OGG/FLAC?
Would be great to have some tracks that sound like the ones that came off some of the MSX and Amiga computers... genuine chiptunes but with more interesting tones than just NES style. Plus, there's always the GYM synth chips that were used the the Sega Megadrive/Genesis which do also count as chiptunes... ;)
For a phrase, something along the lines of "Support non-patented formats, use OGG or FLAC!" could suffice.
As far as consumers, VLC, MPC, WinAMP and Windows Media Player with codecs are all capable of playing both of these formats. For those who would say that "Well users don't want to have to install codecs!"... perhaps not. But they already do for video files (for Windows at least a common one is the CCCP). Is it really that much more difficult to install an audio codec or two? Keep in mind that these audio codecs are mostly for those users who use WMP exclusively.
Perhaps not, but those programs can at least do a mix-down to a raw, uncompressed lossless format like WAV, which can then be converted by Audacity. I can accept that it's a potential pain to have to save with one program, open it with another, and then save it again in the desired format.
A simple solution is Audacity. I know I keep mentioning it but it's the only one I really know for Windows that works well and imports/exports multiple formats including OGG and FLAC.
Players include WinAMP (which reads all of them) and there are codecs for Windows Media Player for the average consumer.
? Perhaps you could elaborate a bit?
I wouldn't suggest something as intrusive as auto-conversion, especially MP3 -> OGG (decode into non-compresses, encode into compressed throwing away other data... leads to crappy audio quality)... but I think a note encouraging the use of patent-free formats is reasonable. Of course, I'm not an admin, but I make the suggestion in an effort to help improve the goals of OGA.
Perhaps, but I don't think "Well, OGG/FLAC isn't widely supported yet." is a good reason. PNG for the longest time wasn't widely supported but people kept using it, it gained popularity and now it's a standard. WebP will likely follow suit as a replacement for JPEG as a lossy format.
Plus, every major editor can export or mix down to WAV or some other raw format... that's where software like Audacity (and other similar, freely available tools) come into play to encode OGG files. Plus, a lot of current MP3 players do, in fact, support OGG.
It would seem that a lot of others agree with me on this point... so I'm wondering if we should consider public encouragment of OGG/FLAC?
These kinds of assets are very reusable. I like it a lot.
These are great! I really love how the style of this graphic and the others in your series are consistent.
Thanks for another great contribution!
Yeah, I totally understand what you mean. I have those pretty often... by the end of a 16 or so hour stint, I'm almost babbling.
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