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Article #3784Re: For all you frustrated SoundMaster folk...
From: Jeff Meyer
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 17:39
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 17:39
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In article <14372@bcsaic.UUCP> lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum) writes:
>What a lot of us would really like is something like SondMaster that selects a
>sound from a folder at random on startup for each event; e.g. you would have a
>"Startup Sounds" folder, a "Restart Sounds", a "Disk Insert" folder, etc. The
>INIT would choose one at random from each such folder. It gets a bit tedious
>having the same sound each session.
Agreed, but the problem I would have is that the size of some sounds I use
for startups and shutdowns would be inappropriate for beeps, keyclicks and
some of the other events. Some pre-selection ability would be required.
The thought of a beep trying to play the 3 MB Buckaroo Banzai closing
theme... conniption fits!
Selections from TOP 10 WAYS DAN RATHER COULD
CONCLUDE THE CBS EVENING NEWS:
10. Put finger in mouth, make "cork popping"
sound.
7. Reveal which news story of the evening was
the fake one.
6. Lick lips and say,"MMM-MMM! Time for pie!"
5. Give coded message to L'il Newshounds fan
club.
2. Light big cigar and say,"Ha Ha! See you
tomorrow suckers!"
-- Late Night with David Letterman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!iuvax!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: For all you frustrated SoundMaster folk... Message-ID: <10759@fluke.COM> Date: 30 Aug 89 17:39:25 GMT References: <10456@fluke.COM> <14372@bcsaic.UUCP> Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 33