Welcome to Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE.
We address two issues with the current Flash Player. The general lack of sound manipulation features in Flash and more urgent the current unstability of the SOUND_COMPLETE event, which is the base for a lot of workarounds.
So, in the first place we are just asking for backwards compatibility.
Naturally we want more and we like to force a discussion of possible options to improve the Flash Player with better sound handling soon. You are welcome to contribute your ideas and hopefully support us.
I took the title from a blog post that linked to us and entirely points out what we expect from future Flash applications. Online music applications are not just a niche existing - it will be widespread in a few years and music composers worldwide will share and develop their compositions in the net. Well, it won’t if Adobe will not MAKE SOME NOISE.
Read Chris Wickett Blog Entry | Register and vote for the official feature request
We created an official feature request on the new Adobe public bugbase.
Please register and vote for the request. They will listen!
Response to a bunch of questions from Adobe
4 Comments Published by André Michelle April 1st, 2008 in correspondenceAdobe: You had mentioned that the vista issue was fixed in a minor version and then broke again. Was there a version of player that had the complete event occur correctly on Vista? If so, what version?
This is really hard to comprehend, cause it was months ago. Let me give you a rough approximation when what happened. I simple don’t know exactly what version was up-to-date at the time. I encountered the issue myself on Windows Vista in spring 2007 (9.0.0.28?) and it was completely broken. Joa Ebert installed Vista in autumn and reported no problems (9.0.0.45?). The last minor update however (9.0.0.115) broke it again. I am sorry, that I cannot recall it more precisely.
Adobe: If you encounter the issue, can you describe what happens?
The onSoundComplete event isn’t running stable anymore. Read more in my explanation below.
Adobe: Does the event fire at the wrong time?
Yes.
Adobe: What is the range of the innaccuracy?
A few milliseconds (varying), enough to get audible gaps, shaky playback. It runs a few times stable, then a gap occurs and so on.
Adobe: Does the event always fire (even if at the wrong time)?
It doesn’t appear for me, that it is sometimes missing. So yes, it seems to be fired every time but of the time.
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Adobe wants us to remove their name from our domain since this would probably cause legal issues. We are thankfull for the warning and hopefully anticipate further problems.
The new domain name is http://www.make-some-noise.info
BASS is a cross-platform and tiny (<100K) audio library, which covers a great deal of sound formats and manipulation.
BASS is an audio library for use in Windows and Mac OSX software. Its purpose is to provide developers with powerful and efficient sample, stream (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, WAV, AIFF, custom generated, and more via add-ons), MOD music (XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX), MO3 music (MP3/OGG compressed MODs), and recording functions. All in a tiny DLL, under 100KB* in size.
On Windows, BASS requires DirectX 3 or above for output, and takes advantage of DirectSound and DirectSound3D hardware accelerated drivers, when available. On OSX, BASS uses CoreAudio for output, and OSX 10.3 or above is recommended. Both PowerPC and Intel Macs are supported.
There are already quite small audio libraries out there hence there is actually no need to reinvent the wheel.
FMOD is a relatively new audio engine which is already used in many games and professional audio software. It already runs on Windows, Linux, OSX (both Intel and PPC) and some consoles and comes with a full API to address the sound system.
The silent death of onSoundComplete event
0 Comments Published by André Michelle March 14th, 2008 in newsThe most urgent request to Adobe is to fix the SOUND_COMPLETE event stability. Here is a copy of my blog entry addressing the issue.
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Hello and welcome to our blog covering the campaign “Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE”.
We want you and the whole Flash community to be aware of the issue that the current and possible future versions of the Flash Player will lack dynamic audio capabilities. You may ask why this is important but currently a lot of companies are developing online applications for text, video and image processing. We see software moving into the internet daily. Only audio is missing at the moment.
Flash is the most ubiquitous browser plug-in installed on more than 94% of the computers world-wide. We see Flash as a reliable technology which is great for developing rich media experiences. This is why we want you and Adobe to be aware of the issue that there is something in the air.
Already several projects show a huge potential for online music applications. We love Flash as much as you do and want to develop rich internet applications featuring audio. Therefore: Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE!
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