Short:    Plays 8/16bit 8SVX, WAV, AU, MAUD and AIFF.
Author:   wenzel@unixserv.rz.fh-hannover.de
Uploader: wenzel@unixserv.rz.fh-hannover.de
Type:     mus/play


-- Play16 version 1.2 - a versatile soundplayer for the Amiga --


Features in brief
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 - autodetects and plays several soundfiles, up to 16 bit / 56 kHz / stereo
 - always correct playback speed, even for sounds >28 kHz
 - plays mono sounds on *both* channels, not only on the left one
 - plays files that are larger than memory
 - preloading for exactly timed start of playback
 - fast uLaw decompression
 - system friendly audio channel allocation
 - supported Filetypes are:

   * Microsoft RIFF-WAVE  (.WAV)  mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear / uLaw
   * Sun/NeXT Audio       (.AU)   mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear / uLaw
   * MacroSystem MAUD     (.MAUD) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear
   * Apple/SGI/Amiga AIFF (.AIFF) mono / stereo, 8 / 16 bit, linear
   * Amiga IFF-8SVX       (.IFF)  mono / stereo, 8      bit, linear
   * Any raw sound data as long as it matches one of the following:
     -  8 bit signed
     -  8 bit unsigned
     - 16 bit signed, Intel format    (LSB first)
     - 16 bit signed, Motorola format (MSB first)


What's new since V1.0?
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V1.1    - Oops! Play16 caused some Enforcer hits. Fixed that.
          Thanks to Rod Schnell for reporting it.
        - Added 'single'-option. Sound can be loaded completely into memory
          before playing. No looping possible in this case yet!
        - Playback time in minutes:seconds displayed if verbose >= 1
        - uLaw decompression for WAVE-Files, using a decoding table
          for maximum speed (didn't do much testing on it, hope it works!)
        - MAUD filetype support (why do there have to be so many formats?)
        - Sun/NeXT filetype support
          Should also play 8 or 16 bit linear (hopefully)
          Stereo playback may be distorted. Give it a try. :)
        - AIFF filetype support
          Note that the AIFF sounds saved with MacroSystem's MPro software
          contain a corrupt ANNO chunk :-/
          Play16 will detect this and play the file anyway.
        - ctrl-c now stops playback immediately.
          Thanks to Marc for some programming tips about that.

V1.2    - IFF-8SVX filetype support (only uncompressed files!)
        - RAW data support: _Any_ data can be played
        - Preload feature added
        - Fixed a bug that caused illegal memory access (hopefully)
          Thanks to Ignatios Souvatzis for reporting it.
        - Improved chunk handling


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   31072   16960 45.4% 28-Nov-94 22:54:56  Play16
   11510    5016 56.4% 28-Nov-94 22:48:52  Play16.doc
    2589    1199 53.6% 28-Nov-94 22:48:50  Play16.readme
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   45171   23175 48.6% 29-Nov-94 16:03:06   3 files