From: Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>
Date: 2004-08-29T07:04:36+09:00
Subject: Re: FMOD - for Ruby??

I'm not so sure that you want to use FMOD for your app.  I looked into
it a while back for an audio editor that I was writing.  From what its
creator told me at the time, FMOD doesn't have a way of buffering
audio files.  It tries to read the whole file into memory, which is
fine for short loops used for video games or even for short songs, but
not for the long multi-gigabyte audio files I was working with. 
Things may have changed since then, though.

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:50:58 +0900, Richard Lyman <lymans@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am going to write an MP3 player 'in' Ruby, so...
> 
> I _really_, _really_ would love FMOD for Ruby (I'm assuming that's
> what I want)... but here's the problem:
> 
> I have no knowledge of C or C++ (yet)...
> -and-
> I'd want it 'precompiled' for the one-click installer - win32 platform.
> 
> Is there anyone who already has this, or who could provide it?
> 
> Python has pyFMOD on Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/uncassist/).
> Maybe that'd make it easier for those who know Python as well...
> 
> Jamis - maybe you'd be willing to walk me through how to do this on my
> own if there aren't any takers...
> 
> -Rich
> 
>