I started building rooms with multiple tape recorders, radios etc. For the radios I’m trying to reproduce my existing Shortwave Radio simulation, but quickly discovered a hard basket.
In that exhibit ‘Radio One’ has 38 different sounds that it can make, as MP3′s they’re a total of 13.6Mb which goes way beyond the bandwidth for a web exhibit without audio streaming. The exhibit very simply uses two or three embedded flash jukeboxes that fight over the connection and randomize their playlist. In Unity you can pseudo-stream OGG files but no one seems to do that, preferring to buy the Pro license and stream video. At $1500.00 a Pro license is something I’d like to leave until the project earns funding.
Information is a bit scanty. User Warwick Allison suggests a script that goes and gets the OGG as raw data, keeps checking every 1 second for the stream to end and then hands the data over to an Audio Player. Not that I am in any way competent to say so, but this looks like the only way that you could do it. www.audioClip isn’t smart enough to tell you what is coming up, it just keeps pumping until it runs out.
I’ll do it this way until the demos have been provided, then should be able to switch to the luxury of video playback.
NEW DEMO – 4 tape recorders. Click on a recorder to start/stop. This page will attempt to install a plug in. Note that the sound is actually muted instead of paused as at the moment I have no means to address the audio instance. Yes there’s some texturing not right yet.
It’s happening except on Lion.
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