ASSEMBLY 2001

Re: Multichannel filesize - Veli-Pekka Kivimäki (30.07.2001 18:59) (read: 141)

	Multichannel filesize
	Subject	Multichannel filesize
	Date	30.07.2001 15:26
	Author	Sami Saarnio
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	Why is the filesize limited to 1024k? This same limit was used in Assembly 1994. Back then Gravis Ultrasound cards had this limit. Are you still supporting Gravis users or what? Today you can use stereo 44Khz samples on trackers like Modplug that will be used here on Asm '01 for playback. Sample quality makes a big difference. MP3 limit is 10MB which results in 7 minutes of music on 192K though the songs will only be played for 3.5 minutes. The point I guess is that artists can release final versions of longer songs to the benefit of listeners. I think 5MB to 10MB would be reasonable for multichannels in year 2001. Just a set of 20 quality samples easily take up 5MB. This way composers would not have to downsample just for the competition and could release the final tracks and not just some sucky party-version. Please, support the dying race of trackers and enable near MP3 quality module music for the benefit of all. By the way, a 5MB module can be crunched to about 3MB by using RAR multimedia packing. Thank you.