From: Richard Lyman <lymans@...>
Date: 2004-08-29T08:27:40+09:00
Subject: Re: FMOD - for Ruby??

That's good to know. I probably don't want it then... any suggestions
on replacements?

(I've heard of mpg123 and mpg321 - are they what I'm looking for?)

-Rich


On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 07:04:36 +0900, Carl Youngblood
<carl.youngblood@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>