[SoundComp-Develop] Monkey's Audio

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Hello fellow SoundComp'ers,

as you may already have noticed, support for the Monkey's Audio file format (as one of two well-known lossless audio compression formats) was already on the todo list.

If we read the license conditions literally:

"Code changes and improvements must be contributed back to the Monkey's Audio project free from restrictions or royalties, unless exempted by express written consent of the author."

And another condition:

"The use Monkey’s Audio or any component thereof from another program requires express written permission from the author of Monkey’s Audio."

That could be quite hard to accomplish, as our goals (platform independence, for example) are quite different, so there's nothing useful to commit back.

But the good news is:

I contacted the author, Matt Ashland, and got his definite ok to use it in the way we may need it. Nothing to worry about. Just wanted to be safe...

So if anyone feels like it, he may complete the "platform independent" transform of Matt's code. As like for the windows "wav" files, there also are no provisions for "little versus big endian" problems yet - these would still have to be done.

By the way, talking of big endian: does anyone of you own a big endian machine that can run modern java? For example, any powerpc mac, modern 68k machine, sun sparc or HP PA-RISC would do. I'm afraid I don't have one so I cannot test any big endian issues.

Best regards

Jan