Re: Playing Sounds

Quicktime 7.1
Direct recording is not working, because I don't have a mic attached

It is not the playing which did go wrong, it is the importing by
drag-and-drop, that didn't work.

Ofcourse XP, I did state so.

All this doesn't really matter since I was just trying to proove your
statements about wavs not inflating the file when importing.

Remains a question why d&d did not work. I get a bit anxious, hoping nothing
else is going to break inside win or inside fmp. my instalation is only 1
month old (sytem and ALL else) after an unexplained system-wide crash.

Anyway, thanks for your input.

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Keep well,
Ursus


"Bill Marriott" <wjm@xxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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What version of FileMaker and QuickTime are you using? Windows XP I am
assuming?

Files have to be in QuickTime format for FileMaker to play them.. Also you
can double-click an empty container field to record sound directly to it.

"Ursus" <ursus.kirk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bill,

I just had to try it and failed. I created a new file, just one
container. And created a 4sec wav.

When selecting the insert > Quicktime menu, It is not he file that gets
inserted but a reference. Filesize does not change much, but then again
when I renamed the original file, the link was broken.

Then I dragged and dropped the file directly on the conatiner. After
waiting for ages (Couple of minutes actualy). Nothing happened exept
filemaker frooze. The wav plays on all available players and being just
4secs long, it just cannot be the size. I forced fmp to shutdown after 10
minutes.

So this wasn't a very satisfactory trial. I haven't used sounds inside a
solution before, I have never had any speed problems before with any
progs. (4gHz dual core machine)

(FMP 8 adv, winXP)

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Keep well,
Ursus


"Bill Marriott" <wjm@xxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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Ursus,

Sorry you're incorrect on a number of points:

- The expansion of data stored within FileMaker applies to images, not
to sounds. There is no "explosive inflation."

- I am not sure what you mean by "calculated results" for the container
but they certainly are not necessary for this.

- When looping through records and playing sounds stored in a container,
FileMaker will indeed wait until the sound is finished before moving to
the next record.


"Ursus" <ursus.kirk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Squeed

Also try the helpfile and search on the word sound.

Further: with drag-and-drop your database will inflate explosively. FMP
stores all metadata as RAW, which is much larger then the original. You
would have to look into calculated results for the conatiner. A subject
recently covered here extensively.

AND

with scripting your container has to be on a layout, you then use the
go to field script step, with the select/perform option enable.

I don't know if the script will wait for the sound to end before moving
to the next record, if not you have to delay the script for the exact
amount of time the wav takes to complete. I suspect the result is not
very satisfactory. Putting as much wavs together as possible might
eliminate this a bit.

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Keep well,
Ursus


"Bill Marriott" <wjm@xxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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Yes. You would script a loop to go to through each record and play the
sound file stored in a container field.

<squeed2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I want to create a filemaker database that is full of MP3 or WAV files
as the records. I then want to be able to piece records together and
play them. So for example.

Record 1 = Hello
Record 2 = My
Record 3 = Name
Record 4 = Is
Record 5 = Squeed

My script would play all 5 records and filemaker would play 5 in a
row
to say

"Hello My Name Is Squeed"

Is this possible ?

-Squeed













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