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The ACPlay doesn't have enough ram to waste time decoding ID3 tags.  I've
found the ID3 specification is trash so I dev'd my own.  When you up a
song, if it has an ID3 tag, the ID3 tag is converted to my format so you
don't notice a thing...

Grant

But mp3s can be played with errors.  The file can be full of them and it
will still play.

Checksums are nice, but not needed.  If I decide to add them (not there on
version 1) they will be 16bit.  Unless I use the Atmel Thumb (they might
have an Arm too) so it could be 32bit.  I don't want to waste time on
custom math operations...

Grant


>And a header would be good because some people (a) don't ID3 tag their mp3s
>and (b) give them a different file name than the song name. It would be nice
>if the file was sent in blocks though, in case we get an error...put a
>checksum on them, and make them fixed length... I mean, come on...don't we
>want at least a little room for transfer error here?
>
>-- Jon Olson
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick S [despuqué] <worldsnow@hotmail.com>
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 12:33 AM
>Subject: Re: ACPlay Software (was: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc):
>TI-H:Radio/In...))
>
>
>>
>>It doesn't need any header or anything... you can easily determine the
>>beginning of an MP3 file and that is all that is needed... and if it
>>doesn't support ID3 tags, then it would simply come up as "a song"...
>>
>>>From: "Jon Olson" <morph@jmss.com>
>>>To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>>>Subject: Re: ACPlay Software (was: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc):
>>TI-H:Radio/In...))
>>>Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 00:14:25 -0500
>>>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>>
>>>
>>>Erm...any kind of header on the file? i.e. a null terminated name and a
>>size
>>>(big or little endian?)...it would certainly help the player store it,
>>don't
>>>you think?
>>>
>>>-- Jon olson
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>>>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>>>Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 12:14 AM
>>>Subject: Re: ACPlay Software (was: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc):
>>>TI-H:Radio/In...))
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I'm not arguing.  I asked if you programmed a driver.  How am I
>>supposed to
>>>>know?  I have had hundreds of people send me their programs.
>>>>
>>>>Thats exactly what it needs to do.  Send raw bytes out the parallel
>>port in
>>>>SPP.  The common driver is 20 lines long.  It can do exactly what you
>>want
>>>>it to do as long as it sends the file rawly.
>>>>
>>>>Grant
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Alright, I'm pretty tired of arguing. Grant, just tell me what you
>>want
>>>>>it to do and I'll see what I can do... when you told me like 3 months
>>>>>ago, it wasn't very elaborate, so I didn't make it (i.e. you just
>>said
>>>>>make a prog that sends a byte out the parallel port). The windows
>>>>>version probably won't be winAPI dependent, cuz I don't want windows
>>to
>>>>>have anything to do with it, and I might consider that later, since
>>>>>people probably won't know their port address, but the KDE/windows
>>>>>versions will both ask for the address at first. I might even do a
>>>>>registry lookup to find the parallel port address's and ask which one
>>>>>they want to use... but just TELL me exactly what it should do (ask
>>for
>>>>>files to send? just send the binary files and the hdd player will be
>>>>>able to figure out each file and everything? what??) thanks...
>>>>>
>>>>>>Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 18:48:17 -0900
>>>>>>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>>>>>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>>>>>>Subject: Re: ACPlay Software (was: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc):
>>>>>TI-H:
>>>>>> Radio/In...))
>>>>>>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Well I don't know about you guys, but unless you have any objection
>>to
>>>>>>>my way, I think I'll begin to make the || software for Win and KDE.
>>>>>>>Although I'm beginning to have less and less free time...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Have you written a driver already?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Grant
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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