Hi Ken,

You can play mp3 files within Squeak, and ogg is now available in
Etoys, but I'm not that familiar with the inclusion.
OSC is available in squeak
(http://map.squeak.org/package/61f807be-83a3-4944-bfa1-686ddac7153c)
so you can interface with programs like SuperCollider which is what
Cesare Marilungo is doing..
(http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/sw/supercollider-morphs-for-squeak)
Stéphane Rollandin has create µO
(http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm). I don't know the
current state. Maybe Cesare and Stéphane can give us an update. Craig
Latta had done some work with midi, but I don't think it's integrated
into the main image. Craig?

(I'm forwarding your email to the Squeak-Dev mailing list. The Squeak
Audio mailing list seems to be removed. Anyone know about that?)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kenneth Sherwood <kwsherwood at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Subject: [Newbies] audio query
To: beginners at lists.squeakfoundation.org


As a writer and non-programmer (high school Fortran in 1986) who has
used out-of-the-box tools such as flash and dreamweaver, I've just
begun teaching myself Squeak--which was recommended by a hypertext
writer/aquaintence Jim Rosenberg.  My interest is in building
interactive text / audio projects and live-art-performance tools in a
user-defined workspace apart from the constraints/habits associated
with Flash and Director, and without the platform dependence and
proprietary concerns.  I've gathered what seem to be the "classic"
beginner texts: Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots, Squeak: A Quick
Trip to ObjectLand, and Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia
Application (Guzdial).
Can anyone speak to the multimedia potential of Squeak and/or its
likely development trajectory, especially with regard to audio? The
midi tools and synthesis look promising, but as I've mostly worked
with recorded voices, I was worried to see no apparent support for
compressed audio. Most of my searching in the news-groups has turned
up dead-ends, like the tool called "Siren" that is now written for a
different smalltalk dialect. I see the Guzdial now seems to be
publishing books on Python and Java as "multimedia" languages, and I
sense much development work must be going into Croquet.

So in short, can someone with experience using squeak in a multi-media
presentational format, especially audio, reassure me that what will be
the somewhat steeper learning curve (for a self-taught,
non-programmer) will pay off?

Many thanks...
Ken

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Kenneth Sherwood, PhD
Associate Professor of English
Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism
110 Leonard Hall
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15705

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