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Re: audio question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ball)
Sun Nov 12 19:00:16 1995

Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 13:49:35 -0800
From: Thomas.Ball@Eng.Sun.COM (Thomas Ball)
To: edanuff@protagonist.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM

Currently we only support .au formats, and we won't be able to add .wav
support in 1.0.  For some future release, we'd like to add support for
translator classes, so the runtime doesn't have to support all possible 
file formats and encoding schemes.

Tom 

>  Does the beta release still only support the .au audio file format (8,000
>  Hz, 8-bit, mono, ulaw encoded audio file)?  Out of curiosity, I tried to
>  play back a .wav file on win95 and had the sun.audio.NativeAudioStream
>  class throw an InvalidAudioFormatException (not that I expected it to work,
>  but I wanted to see what would happen).  Are there any other audio formats
>  that have been added or are on the drawing board for future versions?
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